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Escalation Report: March 2024

How the 194 price indices Escalake tracks moved in March 2024, grouped by sector, with the biggest single-month moves and what they mean for a contract escalation clause.

Indices with data this month
189 / 194
Not every provider has published March 2024 yet. Each one releases on its own monthly schedule, and some run a longer lag than others.
Average move
+0.2%
Month-over-month, all indices.
Rising / falling
104 / 64
Notable moves
8
Moved 5% or more in a single month.

What this means for contracts

Across the 189 indices with data for March 2024, the average month-over-month move was +0.2%, with 104 rising and 64 falling.

US PPI — Corrugated Recyclable Paper (BLS WPU09120325) moved the most, up +12.6% for the month.

0 of the 189 indices in this report moved more than 10% over the trailing year, the range where a typical annual cap or floor begins to bind.

Top risers

Top fallers

By sector

Aerospace & Defence
+0.2%
Average month-over-month move across 8 indexes.
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Semiconductors
+0.2%
Average month-over-month move across 12 indexes.
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Telecom & Data Centers
+0.3%
Average month-over-month move across 4 indexes.
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Lubricants & Chemicals
+0.8%
Average month-over-month move across 26 indexes.
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Freight & Trucking
-0.4%
Average month-over-month move across 7 indexes.
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Warehouse & Logistics Equipment
-0.1%
Average month-over-month move across 3 indexes.
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Construction Materials
+0.6%
Average month-over-month move across 26 indexes.
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Industrial Metals & Parts
-1.3%
Average month-over-month move across 28 indexes.
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Transportation & Logistics
-0.8%
Average month-over-month move across 10 indexes.
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Textiles & Fibers
+1.8%
Average month-over-month move across 3 indexes.
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Energy & Fuels
+0.3%
Average month-over-month move across 5 indexes.
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Paper & Packaging
+1.9%
Average month-over-month move across 9 indexes.
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Industrial & Building Equipment
+0.3%
Average month-over-month move across 31 indexes.
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Plastics & Rubber
-0.1%
Average month-over-month move across 7 indexes.
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Food & Agriculture
+1.3%
Average month-over-month move across 3 indexes.
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Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals
+0.1%
Average month-over-month move across 3 indexes.
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General Producer & Consumer Prices
+0.4%
Average month-over-month move across 4 indexes.
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Cite this report: Escalake Escalation Report, March 2024. https://escalake.com/reports/escalation/2024-03

Methodology: each index is a real, verified feed from its official statistical agency, the same 194-index catalog behind the public index lookup. Month-over- month, year-over-year, and three-year change each compare the report month's value to the value exactly one, twelve, or thirty-six months earlier; an index without a value on one of those exact months shows that comparison as unavailable rather than an estimate. No customer or contract data is used anywhere on this page.

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