Producer Prices
Producer Price Index by Commodity: All Commodities
The number, plainly.
The producer price index for all commodities, what businesses pay for inputs before anything reaches a consumer.
Higher, lower, and what each means.
Producer prices tend to move before consumer prices. Rising means margin pressure is coming unless it gets passed through.
A reading is not a verdict. The Scan phase of Woodring’s Loop collects the signal; the Story phase asks what futures it is consistent with, and only the Stake phase turns that into a decision. This page does the first part.
The line in your 2027 plan.
Tests: the cost-of-goods line and the gross-margin assumption built on it.
Write the assumption down, name the reading that would break it, and put a date on when it has to be argued again. That is the 18-Month Sunset applied to one line of a budget. The Last Annual Planshows what this season’s moves have already done to the common ones.
The last 36 readings.
Most recent first. Every value is as published by FRED at the time of the last refresh; FRED revises some series after the fact.
| Date | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | 295.71 | +2.8% |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 287.74 | +1.0% |
| Jul 1, 2026 | 284.97 | −0.4% |
| Jun 1, 2026 | 286.04 | −1.5% |
| May 1, 2026 | 290.28 | +2.7% |
| Apr 1, 2026 | 282.72 | +2.4% |
| Mar 1, 2026 | 276.11 | +2.4% |
| Feb 1, 2026 | 269.54 | +2.2% |
| Jan 1, 2026 | 263.61 | +0.9% |
| Dec 1, 2025 | 261.33 | −0.2% |
| Nov 1, 2025 | 261.91 | +0.5% |
| Oct 1, 2025 | 260.59 | −0.6% |
| Sep 1, 2025 | 262.05 | Unchanged |
| Aug 1, 2025 | 262.11 | −0.1% |
| Jul 1, 2025 | 262.36 | +0.7% |
| Jun 1, 2025 | 260.49 | +0.7% |
| May 1, 2025 | 258.68 | +0.1% |
| Apr 1, 2025 | 258.39 | −0.1% |
| Mar 1, 2025 | 258.53 | −0.4% |
| Feb 1, 2025 | 259.50 | +0.8% |
| Jan 1, 2025 | 257.36 | +1.6% |
| Dec 1, 2024 | 253.42 | +0.1% |
| Nov 1, 2024 | 253.21 | +0.1% |
| Oct 1, 2024 | 253.08 | +0.2% |
| Sep 1, 2024 | 252.68 | −1.1% |
| Aug 1, 2024 | 255.46 | −0.7% |
| Jul 1, 2024 | 257.32 | +0.5% |
| Jun 1, 2024 | 255.91 | +0.2% |
| May 1, 2024 | 255.31 | −0.6% |
| Apr 1, 2024 | 256.98 | +0.7% |
| Mar 1, 2024 | 255.10 | +0.1% |
| Feb 1, 2024 | 254.93 | +1.4% |
| Jan 1, 2024 | 251.31 | +0.6% |
| Dec 1, 2023 | 249.87 | −1.2% |
| Nov 1, 2023 | 252.86 | −0.9% |
| Oct 1, 2023 | 255.19 | — |
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Where the number comes from.
Producer Price Index by Commodity: All Commodities (PPIACO), retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PPIACO. Refreshed daily; 120 readings on file from Oct 1, 2016 to Sep 1, 2026.
Predictive Planning Institute, Signal Library: Producer Prices (PPIACO). predictiveplanning.com/signals/PPIACO. Data via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Value 295.71 as of Sep 1, 2026.