Producers Price Index: March 2009 quarter

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Crude oil lowers producers' input prices

Highlights

  • The Producers Price Index (PPI) outputs index fell 1.4 percent.
  • Output prices for dairy product manufacturing fell 24.3 percent.
  • Output prices rose 6.5 percent between the March 2008 and March 2009 quarters.
  • The PPI inputs index fell 2.5 percent.
  • Input prices for wholesale trade fell 12.7 percent.
  • Input prices rose 4.7 percent between the March 2008 and March 2009 quarters.

Graph, Producers Price Index, all industries - inputs and outputs.

Geoff Bascand 18 May 2009
Government Statistician ISSN 1178-0622

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