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BLS Producer Price Index: PPI for final demand increases 1.3% in September; goods advance 2.6%, services rise 0.8%

BLS News Releases Authoritative source Published 15th October 2026 US

What the source reported

Source-reported

The Producer Price Index for final demand increased 1.3 percent in September. Prices for final demand goods rose 2.6 percent, and the index for final demand services advanced 0.8 percent. Prices for final demand moved up 6.3 percent for the 12 months ended in September.

Publication
BLS News Releases · Official Statistics
Published
15th October 2026
Original report
bls.gov

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What ProcIntel recorded

ProcIntel-derived
Category
Commodities & Input Costs
Geography
US
Organisations
None identified
Collected
15th October 2026 · 19:49

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Significance 1 · Low
Confidence 3 · Moderate

Initial Significance Low (14.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Moderate (64/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Extraction Quality (3.0/15 points). Capped at 64 (Moderate) -- neither the authoritative-origin nor the independent-corroboration route to Sufficient was met (no matched Event type; no actor entities (only attribution/metadata, if any); no actor content-derived geography), limiting Confidence even though other factors scored higher.

Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Geographic Breadth
Possibly the same underlying story as Corporate Goods Price Index (Sept.) — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.