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Chicago Business Barometer Signals Ease in Hiking Charging Prices

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MNI (London)

The Chicago Business BarometerTM, produced with MNI, asked firms "Are you managing to pass the higher costs of doing business onto customers?

  • 30% of respondents were able to pass on higher costs, whilst the vast majority (60%) were able to do so partly. 10% of firms were unable to charge higher prices to account for rising costs.
  • Compared to previous results over the past twelve months, firms have been increasingly able to charge higher output prices in order to share the burden of higher costs.
  • US factory-gate inflation peaked at +11.7% y/y in March and since eased to +8.0% y/y in October. This generally feeds through into CPI at a lag.
  • As demand weakens against a backdrop of high inflation and more pessimistic growth outlooks, demand elasticity increases. Firms will face greater difficulties in moving product at increasingly higher prices, which should feed into a deflationary impact on price levels.
  • The November data implies that this mechanism has not yet come into effect. MNI will closely monitor changes in upcoming months.



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