The Labor Department said Friday that its producer price index, which measures inflation at the wholesale level before it reaches consumers, jumped 0.3% in January from the previous month. On an annual basis, prices remain up 0.9%.
Those figures are both higher than the 0.1% monthly gain and the 0.6% annual figure predicted by Refinitiv economists.
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