{"id":3442,"date":"2011-07-31T23:29:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T21:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/ppi-rises-to-7-4-in-june\/"},"modified":"2011-07-31T23:29:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T21:29:05","slug":"ppi-rises-to-7-4-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/ppi-rises-to-7-4-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"PPI Rises to 7.4% in June"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Producer Price Index (PPI) in June rose to 7.4 percent, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis rate is 0.5 of a percentage point higher than the corresponding annual rate of 6.9 percent in May 2011,\u201d said Stats SA.<\/p>\n

PPI, which is the price of goods leaving factories as well as mines, rose higher than market expectation. It was expected to rise to 7 percent.<\/p>\n

The higher annual PPI could be attributable to increases in the annual rate of change in the Producer Price Index for electricity, mining and quarrying, food and manufacturing, agriculture and basic metals.<\/p>\n

Nedbank economists said commodity prices have corrected slightly off earlier highs which should contain producer inflation in the coming months.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, base effects and the return of some pricing power to producers should push prices at the manufacturing level up modestly over the months ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe [Reserve Bank’s] Monetary Policy Committee will face a difficult dilemma over the coming months \u2013 how to react to rising inflation in an environment where growth is both weak and fragile,\u201d said Nedbank. \u2013 BuaNews<\/p>\n

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