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(Bloomberg) -- Following are forecasts for today’s economic releases as compiled by Bloomberg News.

• Import prices 0.6% m/m; range 0.1% to 1% (36 estimates)
• Import prices ex petro 0.2% m/m; range 0.1% to 0.3% (12 estimates)
• Import Prices 2.6% y/y; range 2.6% to 2.9% (9 estimates)
• Export Prices 0.45% m/m; range 0.1% to 0.5% (8 estimates)
• “Ordinarily, a decline in the dollar should result in an upside bias for import prices, but this linkage has been weak in 2017. In broad, trade-weighted terms, the dollar is down 7% for the first eight months of the year; meanwhile, non-petroleum import prices are up just 1% over the same period”: Bloomberg Intelligence
• In August, the import price index rose 0.6 percent, the first increase in four months

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