Wholesale prices rise sharply and show new Fed chief could confront stubborn inflation
Source: MarketWatch
Published: Jan. 30, 2026 at 8:49 a.m. ET
The cost of wholesale goods and services rose sharply at the end of last year, underscoring the battle against inflation is far from over as President Trump gets set to name a new chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Producer prices jumped 0.5% in December, an index produce by the government showed. The report was delayed by the government shutdown last fall.
The 12-month increase in wholesale prices — where inflation tends to show up first — held steady at 3%.
The current level of wholesale inflation suggests annual inflation will persist above the Fed’s 2% target at least through the early part of the new year.
Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wholesale-prices-rise-sharply-and-show-new-fed-chief-could-confront-stubborn-inflation-597b071b?mod=home_ln
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PPI for final demand advances 0.5% in December; services rise 0.7%, goods unchanged https://bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm #PPI #BLSdata
8:32 AM · Jan 30, 2026
Changing OP source as they are all "distracted" by Warsh and running "late" with this.
Original article/headline/link -
Fri, January 30, 2026 at 8:32 AM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — US wholesale prices rose a hotter-than-expected 0.5% in December, the government reports.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-wholesale-prices-rose-hotter-133209963.html
= new reply since forum marked as read
and today's was for December (ETA - I did actually look at their release calendar when I kept hearing news reports about it coming but then all those "news" people disappeared when it did release 
- https://www.bls.gov/schedule/news_release/ppi.htm)
The "late" was getting the business sites up with an article about today's release that did go out on Xitter not long after 8:30 am ET this morning!
And good afternoon (I think... It's 15F here and am starting to feel like how it was back in 1977 with bitter cold and glaciers all around 
).
It got down 8F at my place early this morning. I have a full Ambient WS-2000 weather station out back mounted on a pole and sending signals to a console and an interceptor unit (GW-1000) that feeds the same data to my internal webserver running a weather data display program. I have my outdoor sensors using lithium batteries, both the rechargeable kind like in the weather station and my PM2.5 sensor, and disposables in my other little temp sensors, both outdoors and indoors. I.e., using these (which I think can handle down to -25F or something like that) -
I even have temp sensors in my fridge (both the bottom refrigerator part and top freezer) and one in my deep freezer in the basement that sits at -18F. 
and the rechargeables - at least for my outdoor PM sensor - has a micro USB plug that I plug into a block that plugs into an electrical outlet to charge (it also charges via a solar panel across the top but in winter, the sun angle doesn't charge it enough so I have to bring it in to do an AC charge).
I have a Nitecore Digi D2 that does all kinds of rechargeables (and sizes) including Li-ion -
My weather station has a small solar panel on it to charge during the day and the current one is in full sun and has been out there for 5 years now, so I haven't had to manually recharge the batts yet. On the other hand, the PM sensor has a smaller solar panel across the top and is in an odd location so it doesn't get as much light as the weather station (thus have to manually charge those batts about once every 2 months, where the solar does do some charging).