Friday, May 29, 2009

Prices and inflation

As we've talked about several times the past few weeks in the updates, prices and price inflation are a major catalyst that either drive markets up or drive them down, it's a very simple correlation. Here's what today's GDP data revealed about 2008 Q4 and 2009 Q1 prices/inflation:

GDP price index for domestic purchasing:

-3.9% in Q4 2008
-1.0% in Q1 2009

GDP price index for domestic purchasing ex food and energy:

+1.2% in Q4 2008
+1.4% in Q1 2009

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