| Pending this morning's release of the consumer price index and the import deflator on Thursday, investors dropped the bond market this week, touching off a gradual increase in rates. |
| He also mentioned that Allan Crawford's suggested use of the PPI as a deflator for real wages appealed to him. |
| The GDP deflator, an overall price index, fell 3.5 percent from a year earlier, the sharpest ever drop, adding to the deflationary problems dominating the Japanese economy. |
| A broad-based measure of Chinese inflation, the GDP deflator, is now showing falling prices. |
| The monthly increase in the core deflator is still very moderate, and in April recorded its feeblest growth since December. |
| A better bet is to predict the price deflator using the consumer price index for non-durable goods. |
