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Office for National Statistics
Office for National Statistics
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Producer Price Inflation, August 2014
Key points
- Total input prices fell for the tenth consecutive month.
- The output price index for goods produced by UK manufacturers (factory gate prices) fell 0.3% in the year to August, compared with a fall of 0.1% in the year to July.
- Factory gate prices fell 0.1% between July and August, unchanged since May.
- Core factory gate prices, which exclude the more volatile food, beverages, tobacco & petroleum products, rose 0.9% in the year to August, compared with a rise of 0.8% in the year to July.
- The overall price of materials and fuels bought by UK manufacturers for processing (total input prices) fell 7.2% in the year to August, compared with a fall of 7.5% in the year to July.
- Total input prices fell 0.6% between July and August, compared with a fall of 1.7% between June and July.
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