{"id":2137,"date":"2013-11-28T14:07:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T12:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta2.statssa.gov.za\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2013-11-28T14:07:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T12:07:02","slug":"ppi-down-slightly-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=2137","title":{"rendered":"PPI down slightly in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subdued monthly price increases led the annual Producer Price Index (PPI) for final manufactured goods (headline PPI) to drop to 6,3% in October from 6,7% in September and August 2013. The monthly figure increased by 0,5% &#8211; up slightly from the 0,4% increase in September and lower than the 0,9% in October 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The two main drivers of the monthly increase were food products (0,6%) and wood and paper products (2,1%). The most significant price increases in food products were meat (1,8%), fish (2,4%),\u00a0 dairy products (0,9%) and sugar (1,4%). The producer prices of paper and printed products increased by 2,1% from September.<\/p>\n<p>These price increases were counteracted by a monthly decrease in the prices for coke and petroleum products (-0,7%) due to lower crude oil prices and a modest appreciation in the rand against the dollar in October.<\/p>\n<p>Download the full publication <a title=\"P0142.1 - Producer Price Index (PPI), October 2013\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/publications\/P01421\/P01421October2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subdued monthly price increases led the annual Producer Price Index (PPI) for final manufactured goods (headline PPI) to drop to 6,3% in October from 6,7% in September and August 2013. The monthly figure increased by 0,5% &#8211; up slightly from the 0,4% increase in September and lower than the 0,9% in October 2012. The two&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=2137\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inflation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}