The US Core Producer Price Index (m/m) is due at 12:30 UTC on 13 August 2026, and it headlines the session as one of the week’s key wholesale-inflation readings.
What Core PPI measures
Core PPI tracks the month-over-month change in prices US producers receive for goods and services, excluding the volatile food and energy categories. Stripping out those components leaves a cleaner read on underlying pipeline price pressure.
Markets watch it closely because producer costs can feed through to consumer inflation, making the release a reference point for expectations around Federal Reserve policy and the broader dollar picture.
The forecast is 0.3%, compared with a previous reading of 0.2%. A comparison of the actual figure against these numbers is how traders gauge whether wholesale price momentum is firming or cooling.
How the USD-linked pairs are trading
Across our feed, dollar-quoted crypto instruments are lower on the day heading into the release. UNIUSD is the biggest mover, trading at 3.5715, down 4.73%.
AXSUSD follows at 0.852, off 4.05%, with ADAUSD at 0.1806, down 3.22%, and DOGUSD close behind at 0.0693, down 3.21%.
Further down the board, GRTUSD sits at 0.0132, down 2.94%, and DOTUSD is at 0.77, lower by 2.28%. These are current snapshots and the day’s moves, not projections.
The Core PPI print is watched as a gauge of producer-level inflation and its potential read-through to the Fed’s policy path.
Descriptive market news from the ForexBullion Research Team. Not investment advice.
