U.S. wholesale prices point to muted inflation pressures

... which means they are not going to be passing anything on to consumers," said Omair Sharif, an economist at RBS in Stamford, Connecticut. Wholesale prices stripping out volatile food and energy costs nudged up just 0.1 percent last month after rising ...

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