PPI Falls 0.9% For July

The U.S. Labor Department revealed that producer prices dropped 0.9 percent in July. This followed an advance of 1.8 percent in the previous month.

Economists had expected the measure to slip 0.3 percent for the month.

Core prices, which exclude the volatile food and energy sectors, ticked down 0.1 percent in July. Economists were looking for core prices to edge up by 0.1 percent.