Macro, Policy & Capital
U.S. September producer prices increased 6.3% year-over-year and 1.3% month-over-month; core producer prices rose 5% annually.
· ComputeLabs Research · from the October 15, 2026 edition
September’s headline Producer Price Index (PPI) increased 6.3% year-over-year, compared with a reported forecast and previous reading of 5.4%. The monthly increase was 1.3%, against a 0.6% forecast and a previous increase of 0.4%.
Core PPI rose 5% annually, exceeding the reported 4.4% forecast and the previous 4.6% reading. Its monthly increase was 0.7%, compared with a 0.3% forecast and a previous 0.2% increase.
The daily recap described the headline annual increase as the highest in more than four years and the monthly increase as the largest since March 2022. It also reported a 10.8% monthly increase in energy producer prices; these are economy-wide producer-price measures, not direct measurements of GPU, server, or data-center construction costs.