German Wholesale Prices See Record Jump as Raw Material Costs Soar

German Wholesale Prices See Record Jump as Raw Material Costs Soar
Shoppers wear mask and fill Cologne's main shopping street Hohe Strasse (High Street) in Cologne, Germany on Dec. 12, 2020. Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters
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BERLIN—German wholesale prices rose by 16.6 percent on the year in November, official data showed on Monday, recording their biggest annual rise since data collection for the measure began in 1962 and suggesting higher consumer prices may follow.

The price measure is widely considered an indicator of future inflationary tendencies as wholesale trade is the hinge between manufacturers and end-customers.