Tuesday, July 17, 2007

UPDATE 1-U.S. overall producer prices fall in June, core up

(Reuters) - WASHINGTON, July 17 - Cheaper energy helped
reduce overall U.S. producer prices in June, according to a
Labor Department report on Tuesday, but a closely watched
measure of core inflation kept rising at a pace likely to keep
concerns about inflation on policy-makers' minds.




The producer price index -- a gauge of prices paid at the
farm gate and factory door -- declined by 0.2 percent last
month after shooting up by 0.9 percent in May, the first
decline since January.


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