Summary: Prices received by producers rise by 0.3% on average in October; increase higher than expected; annual “core” PPI rate slips; long-term US bond yields up a touch; PPI rise driven by higher goods prices. Around the end of 2018, the annual inflation rate of the US producer price index (PPI) began a downtrend which then continued through 2019. Months in which prices received by producers increased suggested the...