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Cost Prices See Further Deflationary Pressure In June

CANADA DATA
  • Released along with CPI inflation, cost prices showed a marked further deceleration in June.
  • Industrial product prices fell -0.6% M/M (cons -0.2) with the miss offset by an upward revised -0.6% M/M in May (initial -1.0%).
  • More notable within the data however was the sharper decline in IPPI ex energy/petroleum at -0.9% M/M after 0.0% in May. The data aren’t seasonally adjusted, but aside from the Jun’22 of -1.5%, it compares with +0.1% Jun’21, -0.8% Jun’20, -0.6% Jun’19 and +0.8% Jun’18.
  • The raw materials price index was more clearly softer than expected, falling -1.5% (cons -0.4%) after a very heavy -5.0% in May. Crude energy products (-2.8%) and metal ores (-3.4%) both weighed heavily.

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