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Outsized Portfolio Management Inflation Clouds PPI Services Read

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A key caveat to today's one-year-high 0.5% M/M rise in July's final demand services sub-category of PPI:

  • The BLS noted in today's report that Portfolio Management (+7.6%) accounted for 40% of July's rise in final demand services PPI. This category basically represents a portfolio management fees, which are often determined as a percentage of assets under management - and is highly correlated with financial market asset returns.
  • A glance at the chart of the portfolio management price index vs the S&P (below) suggests that this may represent a somewhat illusory rise in "inflation" - and that the broader upside pressure in services producer prices may have been less acute than initially thought.



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