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U.S. MANUFACTURERS are raising prices more slowly as input costs for raw materials and energy ease and demand for goods falls. Producer selling prices for finished products other than energy and food increased at an annualised rate of +4.2% in the three months to December 2022 down from an annualised +11.5% increase in the three months to April 2022. But selling prices are still rising twice as fast as the central bank’s target of a little over 2% per year for overall inflation, keeping upward pressure on interest rates:
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