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| | FOXNews.com - Wholesale Prices Rise in January - Business And Money | Business News | Financial News |
 | | WASHINGTON Rising prices for food, cars and electricity fanned inflation at U.S. factories and farms in January, while higher gasoline prices in early February caused consumers to be less upbeat, according to data on Friday. |
 | | The rise in the producer price index, a gauge of prices received by farms, factories and refineries, fell short of December's downwardly revised 0.6 percent gain but outstripped Wall Street forecasts for a 0.2 percent rise. |
 | | The 0.4 percent rise in the core PPI, which excludes food and energy, was double economists' forecasts for a 0.2 percent gain, suggesting underlying inflation pressures were higher last month than financial markets had expected. |
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