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Producer prices rise a hefty 2.4% in November

All is not well in paradise. Producer prices rose 2.4% in November. While this the first gain this year, the size of the jump was much more than expected and the highest since October 2008. At than time we were coming off record oil prices. Analysts had expected a meager 1.6% rise, a surge in energy prices in the past month contributed to a much higher rise.

The Federal Reserve is meeting today and tomorrow. The Fed will then issue its policy statement on interest rates. It is expected that interest rates will remain low. All eyeballs are on whether the Fed will still include the words: "Extended period."

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