Canada's Industrial Product Price Index rose 0.6% m/m in July, beating the estimate of -0.5% and reversing the prior -1.4%. The Raw Materials Price Index fell 2.2% m/m, slightly worse than the -2.0% estimate but a large improvement from the revised prior of -6.7%.
The IPPI outcome is new in that it reversed a prior monthly decline and came in well above consensus, signaling a shift in factory-gate price direction. The RMPI decline of 2.2% m/m shows raw material costs are still falling, though the pace has slowed sharply from the revised prior of -6.7%, which itself was revised from -6.9%. The gap between rising output prices and still-falling input costs represents a sourced divergence within the same release, though sources do not establish a causal mechanism or downstream asset impact.