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Wholesale food prices rose 1.2 percent last month, the steepest increase in 13 months. They had risen 1.1 percent in January...
Meat and most other food items rose, while eggs dropped 15 percent after rising 20.1 percent in January. Food prices were led by a 35.3 percent increase in vegetables, including a huge 158 percent rise in tomato prices...
Energy prices jumped 2.4 percent overall in February, following a 4.9 percent increase a month earlier. The latest surge was led by a 4.1 percent rise in gasoline prices, the same as January's increase, and a 1.9 percent advance in the cost of natural gas. Fuel oil prices fell 3.1 percent, recovering somewhat from an 11.6 percent surge a month before...
Wholesale prices, excluding the volatile food and energy catagories, rose a brisk 0.6 percent in February, up from a 0.4 percent rise a month earlier. Toilet paper, prescription medicines, books and flatware prices all increased substantially...
...overall February increase left the Producer Price Index for finished goods at 111.7, meaning that a hypothetical selection of goods costing $100 in 1982 would have cost $111.70 last month. That was up 70 cents from January and $5.60, or 5.3 percent, from February...