Official release row with the realised value, prior value, forecast field, exact announcement timestamp, and series chart in one canonical workspace.
2020-08-11 12:30 UTC
A release-date view of the official series, capped at the selected announcement so the chart matches the page timestamp.
The official Producer Price Index inflation row printed 0.6 for 2020-07-31. The previous value was 0.3 and the forecast field was --.
Use the chart above to compare this release with the recent series path, then use the API endpoint below for point-in-time event studies and model features keyed to the stable release ID.
The values below are the machine-readable citation fields for this announcement. The local and UTC timestamps are kept visible because event studies and trading systems need the exact public release moment, not just the date.
| Public release ID | usd_ppi_2020-08-11 |
|---|---|
| API announcement ID | usd_ppi_2020-07-31 |
| Release time |
2020-08-11 12:30 UTC
|
| Reference period | 2020-07-31 |
| Actual value | 0.6 |
| Previous value | 0.3 |
| Forecast | -- |
| Surprise | -- |
| Announcement timestamp | 1597149000 |
Move through adjacent announcement records for the same inflation series.
Field names are preserved for traceability and downstream testing.
{
"announcement_datetime": 1597149000,
"announcement_datetime_local": "2020-08-11T08:30:00-04:00",
"announcement_id": "usd_ppi_2020-07-31",
"change_from_previous": 0.3,
"date": "2020-07-31",
"observation_id": "usd_ppi_canonical_yoy_nsa_standard_period_2020-07-31",
"pct_change_from_previous": 100.0,
"previous_announcement_datetime": 1594384200,
"previous_date": "2020-06-30",
"previous_value": 0.3,
"revisions": [
{
"epoch": 1597149000,
"val": 0.6
},
{
"epoch": 1736861400,
"val": 0.2
}
],
"source": "BLS",
"source_url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/ppi_08112020.htm",
"source_url_scope": "release",
"val": 0.6,
"val_mom": 0.5
}