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A flare of inflation at the wholesale level. I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. This is just one

month but concerning. There is news this morning that wholesale inflation is running hot,

jumping nine-tenths of a percent from June to July, three times what economists were expecting.

Consumer inflation had come in relatively tame, but could this delay a cut in interest rates?

Diane Swank is the chief economist at the audit tax and advisory firm,

KPMG. The data suggests that firms are actually passing along higher prices onto consumers

and that their margins actually widened. So that's important to watch. And that's something

that, you know, we watch for the Fed's preferred measure of the index,

the PCE index, which is derived from both the CPI and the PPI.

That's not going to be quite as hot, although it will show that we're starting to see

inflation continue to move up.

Now, our central bankers, the guardians of interest rates, will have to absorb this

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