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Wholesale prices jumped 4.7% in May

Wholesale prices in May rose at their fastest pace in 27 years, signaling soaring energy costs may erode corporate profits and bring an end to the economy's longest postwar expansion, the Bank of Japan said Wednesday. Producer-price inflation... ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Wed, Jun 11 2008

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