PRODUCER PRICE INDEX: An index of the prices domestic producers receive from selling their output. THE Producer Price Index, abbreviated PPI, is actually one of several producer price indexes compiled and published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). THE Producer Price Index reported regularly in the media is actually the Producer Price Index for All Commodities. Other members in the family of producer price indexes include an array of broad, composite indexes (including finished consumer goods, capital goods, and crude materials); indexes that track the prices received by producers in virtually every major production industry in the country (including lumber, iron and steel, household furniture, and passenger cars); and price indexes for thousands of specific products. In total, the producer price index family includes well over 10,000 separate indexes.

     See also | price level | index | business | Bureau of Labor Statistics | Consumer Price Index | inflation | nominal | real | final good | intermediate good | raw materials | input | stages of production | Wholesale Price Index |

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