Items Tagged with 'Producer Price Index'

Analysts largely attribute year-over-year increase to impact of tariffs.

Producer prices fell in August, but construction input costs climbed as metals and diesel rose. With jobs revised lower, contractors face uneven pressures closing out 2025.

BLS reported construction input costs fell 1.6%, while looming tariffs and rate uncertainty pressures project budgets.

Iron, steel and electrical inputs led increases in construction inputs in May while natural gas saw a steep price fall economy-wide.

Nonresidential construction input prices remain high compared to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Construction input prices fell in December at a greater rate than the Producer Price Index, but still outpaced the wholesale level marker of inflation for the year.