{"id":129782,"date":"2025-09-11T11:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/129782\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:27:11","slug":"us-producer-prices-unexpectedly-fell-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/129782\/","title":{"rendered":"US producer prices unexpectedly fell in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US wholesale inflation unexpectedly fell in August, suggesting inflationary pressures may be easing just as the Federal Reserve prepares for its next interest rate decision.<\/p>\n<p>Data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Wednesday showed that the producer price index \u2014 which tracks inflation in the supply chain before it reaches consumers \u2014 declined 0.1% in August, marking the first monthly drop since April. The decrease was partly driven by falling service-sector margins, suggesting that companies absorbed some of the higher costs linked to US President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs rather than passing them on to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The latest figures come as the Fed is widely expected to cut interest rates at its meeting next week, following recent economic data pointing to a cooling labour market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US wholesale inflation unexpectedly fell in August, suggesting inflationary pressures may be easing just as the Federal Reserve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-129782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}