The PPI is a measure of the weighted average price of all first-stage goods (like metals, lumber, and natural gas) produced in the U.S. The producer price index, or PPI, is a monthly estimate of ...

This figure is the same for both PPI and CPI days. Also, the net result for an NDX straddle buyer on CPI day is a gain of 256.71 points, very close to the performance on PPI days. The difficult ...