16 Jul 2025

Bond yields and the dollar are giving back some of yesterday’s gains after US wholesale prices flatlined in June, helping assuage fears of a sharp acceleration in the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation indicator—the core personal consumption expenditures index—when it is reported at the end of the month. The producer price index for final demand remained unchanged last month after rising 0.3 percent in May, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said this morning, below the 0.2-percent gain expected by economists. In the 12 months through June, the index advanced 2.3 percent after rising 2.7 percent in May, with the goods category—which...