<div id="readability-page-1" class="page"><div> Wholesale Inflation Shot Higher in April Prices charged by producers rose by 1.4% in April from the month before, blowing past March's 0.7% increase, according to the Labor Department's producer-price index. ---- Fed's Collins Says She Could Envision the Need for Rate Hikes Boston Federal Reserve President Susan Collins said she envisions a prolonged stretch of steady interest rates, and could envision a scenario that requires some policy tightening to ensure inflation returns to the central bank's 2% target. ---- Stocks Mixed After Wholesale Prices Flash Another Warning on Inflation The Dow industrials fell with fresh signs of growing price pressures from the Iran war weighing on investors. The Nasdaq composite rose as chip stocks bounced back after Tuesday's stumble. ---- OPEC Cuts Oil Demand Forecast As Hormuz Shock Pushes Output Lower It now forecasts global oil-demand growth of 1.17 million barrels a day this year, from 1.38 million previously. ---- What Trump and Xi Want to Achieve at Their High-Stakes Summit The president arrives in Beijing for a two-day meeting with the Chinese leader. ---- Oil Prices Fall. The Stock Market Can't Keep Ignoring Strait of Hormuz Chaos. Oil prices slipped early Wednesday as President Donald Trump headed to Beijing for a high-stakes summit with China's Xi Jinping. ---- Eurozone Industrial Production Inched Higher in March Output rose 0.2% on month, though the war in the Middle East is expected to increasingly weigh on manufacturers as energy costs and supply disruptions mount. ---- U.S. Crude Oil Inventories Post Third Straight Weekly Drop U.S. crude oil inventories fell by 4.3 million barrels in the week ended May 8 and were about 0.3% below the five-year average for the time of year, the EIA said. Analysts expected a drop of 2.3 million barrels. ---- Longer Working Lives and Immigration Keep Eurozone Economy Growing, ECB Says Rising employment-partly from people working longer-has accounted for about half of the growth recorded in the eurozone since the third quarter of 2023. ---- IEA Warns Recovery From Hormuz Supply Shock Will Take Months The energy watchdog now expects global oil demand to contract by 420,000 barrels a day this year, from an 80,000-barrel-a-day decline projected previously. ---- India Raises Gold, Silver Tariffs to Curb Imports India has hiked tariffs on gold and silver imports, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned that the Middle East crisis was pressuring the country's foreign-exchange reserves. ---- The More You Know About This Private-Credit Fund, the Less You Understand A close look at a Blue Owl credit fund's holdings raises questions about its valuations. ---- Wall Street Is Getting More Anxious About Long-Term Inflation Surging energy prices have pushed investors' inflation expectations to multiyear highs. ---- Copper prices are now at their highest level on record. AI is only part of the story. Copper refining now has a Strait of Hormuz problem. ---- Iran Expands Strait Definition Tehran now considers the Strait of Hormuz to encompass a much larger area than before the war <pre></pre> (END) Dow Jones Newswires May 13, 2026 13:15 ET (17:15 GMT)Copyright (c) 2026 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.</div></div>

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Wholesale inflation surged by 1.4% in April, exceeding March's 0.7% increase, according to the Labor Department. Boston Fed President Susan Collins indicated potential rate hikes may be necessary to achieve the 2% inflation target. The stock market showed mixed results, with the Dow falling amid inflation concerns linked to the Iran war, while the Nasdaq rose due to a rebound in chip stocks. OPEC revised its oil demand growth forecast down to 1.17 million barrels per day, influenced by the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz.

- Producer prices jumped by 1.4% in April, surpassing March's 0.7% increase, highlighting ongoing inflation concerns.  
- Boston Fed President Susan Collins indicated the possibility of future interest rate hikes to align inflation with the central bank's 2% target.  
- Global oil demand growth forecasts have been revised down due to the impact of the Iran war and supply disruptions, with OPEC and the IEA adjusting their projections.

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