Wholesale inflation dips as Fed predicts ‘mild’ recession

Input costs for businesses declined 0.5 percent as one of the major components of consumer prices turned deflationary, the Labor Department reported Thursday. On an annual basis, the producer price index (PPI), which measures the prices that businesses pay to each other, advanced just 2.7 percent.…

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