{"id":436470,"date":"2026-05-20T09:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/436470\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:43:16","slug":"germany-producer-prices-nudge-higher-in-april-as-higher-energy-prices-continue-to-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/436470\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany producer prices nudge higher in April as higher energy prices continue to bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PPI +1.2% vs +1.0% m\/m expectedPrior +2.5%<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">German producer prices moved up more than estimated in April, with the year-on-year estimate also reflecting a strong 1.7% increase. On the annual estimate, that is the highest since May 2023. Producer prices continue to ramp up amid higher energy prices, also showing some impact in spreading to other key categories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">Even if you exclude energy prices from the equation, German producer prices were still up by 0.7% compared to March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">Looking at the breakdown, energy prices rose by 2.4% on the month. In particular, mineral oil prices rose particularly sharply in April (+10.7%). Besides that, there were also increases in prices for capital goods (+0.3%) and intermediate goods (+1.2%). On the latter, prices for basic chemicals showed a notable increase on the month (+5.2%) with fertilizer prices in particular being much more expensive compared to March (+5.5%) and also relative to April last year (+8.4%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PPI +1.2% vs +1.0% m\/m expectedPrior +2.5% German producer prices moved up more than estimated in April, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-436470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}