Don't look now, but Pepsi is quietly having a very good year.

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I'm Chris Hill joining me today in Motleyful Senior Analyst, Oset Sharma.

Thanks for being here.

Chris, appreciate you having me.

Before we get to Pepsi, I want to start with the producer price index data that we got

this morning, up 0.4%, which was higher than expected, causing at least before the market

opened up a little bit of a freak out of, oh, here we go, more inflation, that sort of thing.

Tomorrow, Thursday morning, we're going to get the consumer price index.

What should we be looking for?

Should we be expecting the same sort of thing?

Or what are you going to be watching tomorrow morning?

This is something that Chris is very hard to measure one after another.

The reason is the producer price index.

That shows you prices that businesses are getting for whatever they're producing services

included.

Now, this has an effect on consumer inflation, but it's an indicator.

It's an indicator of future pricing out in the marketplace.

So if input costs for businesses are rising somewhere down the road, you and I are paying

more for the stuff that we're buying.

The two don't necessarily have an immediate correlation when the reports land up together.

Some of it will probably be visible, but what this does tell us is that inflation hasn't

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