Official release row with the realised value, prior value, forecast field, exact announcement timestamp, and series chart in one canonical workspace.
2016-03-17 08:15 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 -4.55 for 2016-02-29. The previous value was -5.27 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 | chf_ppi_2016-03-17 |
|---|---|
| API announcement ID | chf_ppi_2016-02-29 |
| Release time |
2016-03-17 08:15 UTC
|
| Reference period | 2016-02-29 |
| Actual value | -4.55 |
| Previous value | -5.27 |
| Forecast | -- |
| Surprise | -- |
| Announcement timestamp | 1458202500 |
Move through adjacent announcement records for the same inflation series.
Field names are preserved for traceability and downstream testing.
{
"announcement_datetime": 1458202500,
"announcement_datetime_local": "2016-03-17T09:15:00+01:00",
"announcement_id": "chf_ppi_2016-02-29",
"change_from_previous": 0.7199999999999998,
"date": "2016-02-29",
"observation_id": "chf_ppi_canonical_yoy_nsa_standard_period_2016-02-29",
"pct_change_from_previous": -13.66,
"previous_announcement_datetime": 1454666400,
"previous_date": "2016-01-31",
"previous_value": -5.27,
"revisions": [
{
"epoch": 1458202500,
"val": -4.55
}
],
"source": "FSO",
"source_url": "https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home.html",
"source_url_scope": "series",
"val": -4.55
}