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8:30am 04/01/04 U.S. FEB. PPI UP 0.1% VS. 0.4% EXPECTED
8:30am 04/01/04 U.S. FEB. PPI CORE UP 0.1% AS EXPECTED
8:30am 04/01/04 U.S. FEB. INTERMEDIATE PPI UP 0.9%, CRUDE UP 2.5%
8:30am 04/01/04 U.S. FEB. PPI CORE INTERMEDIATE GOODS UP 0.9%
8:30am 04/01/04 U.S. 4-WEEK INITIAL JOBLESS CLAIMS UNCHANGED AT 340,250
8:30am 04/01/04 U.S. WEEKLY INITIAL JOBLESS CLAIMS OFF 3,000 TO 342,000

U.S. jobless claims steady at 3-year low
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - The average number of weekly filings for state unemployment benefits over the past four weeks was unchanged last week at 340,250, matching the lowest since January 2001, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
Initial claims for benefits in the week ending March 27 fell 3,000 to 342,000 from a revised 345,000.
The four-week average is considered a better gauge of job destruction trends than the more-volatile weekly number.
The number of Americans continuing to receive state jobless benefits rose by 32,000 to 3.06 million in the week ending March 20.
The four-week average dipped by about 15,000 to 3.06 million, the lowest since August 2001.

U.S. Feb. PPI tame as crude, intermediate prices jump
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - Input prices are rising faster, but U.S. producers are not passing on those higher prices to their customers, according to Labor Department figures released Thursday.
The finished goods producer price index rose a tame 0.1 percent in February after soaring 0.6 percent in January.
Excluding food and energy prices, the core PPI also rose 0.1 percent in February after rising 0.3 percent in January.
Intermediate goods prices rose 0.9 percent, the biggest increase in a year.
Core intermediate goods prices rose 0.9 percent, the biggest gain in nine years.
Crude goods prices rose 2.5 percent.
Prices of basic industrial materials rose a record 5.5 percent.


ECONOMIC REPORT: Jobless claims unchanged; 4-week average steady at 340,250, lowest since Jan. 2001
By Rex Nutting, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 8:39 AM ET April 1, 2004

WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - The average number of weekly filings for state unemployment benefits over the past four weeks was unchanged last week at 340,250, the lowest since January 2001, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

Initial claims for benefits in the week ending March 27 fell 3,000 to 342,000 from a revised 345,000.

The four-week average is considered a better gauge of job destruction trends than the more-volatile weekly number, which is subject to large revisions and which can be distorted by special one-time factors, such as weather.

The four-week average has fallen by about 20,000 since the beginning of the year. It's been below the 400,000 level for 26 weeks.

The number of Americans continuing to receive state jobless benefits rose by 32,000 to 3.06 million in the week ending March 20. The four-week average dipped by about 15,000 to 3.06 million, the lowest since August 2001. Continuing claims have fallen by about 200,000 since the beginning of the year.

The report comes one day before the Labor Department releases its March employment data.

Economists believe payroll growth could be the highest in more than three years, based in part on technical factors such as better weather and the end of a large grocery strike in California. The average estimate of economists surveyed by CBS MarketWatch is for a gain of 122,000 payroll jobs. Payrolls rose a stingy 21,000 in February.

The jobless rate is expected to remain at 5.6 percent in March, according to the survey.

While many economists point to the decline in continuing claims as evidence that hiring has picked up faster than the payroll report shows, others say that hiring remains weak and that as many as 1 million workers have exhausted their state benefits without finding work.

In February, 1.87 million of the 8.17 million unemployed Americans had been out of work longer than 26 weeks. The average duration of unemployment was 20.3 weeks (close to a 20-year high), while the median duration was 10.3 weeks (with half the workers out of work longer and half of out work shorter).

Those figures do not count those who've dropped out of the workforce and given up trying to find a job.


ECONOMIC REPORT: PPI up tame 0.1% in February; Crude, intermediate prices surging
By Rex Nutting, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 8:36 AM ET April 1, 2004

WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - Input prices are rising faster, but U.S. producers are not passing on those higher prices to their customers, according to Labor Department figures released Thursday.

The finished goods producer price index rose a tame 0.1 percent in February after soaring 0.6 percent in January. The PPI is up 2.1 percent year-over-year, the slowest pace since December 2002.

Excluding food and energy prices, the core PPI also rose 0.1 percent in February after rising 0.3 percent in January. The core PPI is up 1 percent in the past 12 months compared with 0.9 percent last month.

Further back in the production pipeline, inflation was hotter. Intermediate goods prices rose 0.9 percent, the biggest increase in a year. Core intermediate goods prices rose 0.9 percent, the biggest gain in nine years. Intermediate energy prices rose 0.6 percent.

Steel mill prices jumped a record 5.9 percent, while plywood prices rose 15.2 percent. Prices of cold rolled steel rose 12.4 percent.

Crude goods prices rose 2.5 percent in February after 2.8 percent in January.

At the crude goods level, prices of basic industrial materials rose a record 5.5 percent, including a 21.1 percent jump in iron and steel scrap prices. Crude energy prices were unchanged.

Food and energy prices at the finished level both increased 0.2 percent in February. Capital equipment prices were unchanged. Tire prices rose 4.1 percent, the most in 28 years. Light truck prices fell 1.9 percent.

Finished energy and food prices each rose 0.2 percent.