PPI Time Today (13 Nov 2026): US Producer Prices in Your Time Zone and What They Mean for Gold

The answer: 8:30 am New York, 13:30 GMT, 19:00 IST

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes the October producer price index at 8:30 am Eastern Time on Friday 13 November 2026. New York has been on standard time (UTC−5) since 1 November, so that is 13:30 GMT. In India it is 19:00 IST, in Dubai 17:30, in Johannesburg 15:30 and in Singapore 21:30.

Two things make this release unusual: the last PPI was the hottest in years, and this one lands on a Friday, three days after CPI on 10 November and hours before gold’s weekly close. The PPI event page has a live countdown in your own time zone and a calendar file. This page is the clock, the background and a plan.

PPI time in your country

Every time below is converted from 13:30 UTC on 13 November 2026 with the IANA time zone database (Python zoneinfo), which knows each country’s current clock rules. “Spreads often widen from” is 15 minutes before the release. “One hour after” is when the release-hour bar on a one-hour chart has closed.

For readers in Sydney and Auckland the report arrives after midnight on Saturday, local time. If your city is missing, the gold economic calendar shows every scheduled US release in your browser’s own time zone.

Why it is one hour later than last month

The September PPI came out on 15 October at 12:30 GMT and 18:00 IST. The US left daylight saving time on 1 November, so 8:30 am New York now lands one hour later in India, the Gulf, Africa and most of Asia, which do not change their clocks. Our US clock change guide has all the new session times.

What PPI is, in plain words

PPI (producer price index) measures the prices that US businesses receive for what they sell: goods leaving the factory, fuel at the refinery, services such as transport and retail margins. Think of it as inflation at the start of the pipe. CPI, by contrast, measures what households pay at the end of the pipe. The PPI glossary entry has the longer definition.

Picture a bakery: dearer flour and electricity show up in PPI first. If the bakery later raises the price of bread, that shows up in CPI.

The BLS calls its main headline number “final demand”, which covers goods, services and construction sold to final buyers. Traders usually look at:

1. Final demand, month on month (seasonally adjusted): the first number on the screen.
2. Final demand, 12 months: the yearly change.
3. Core PPI: one version leaves out food and energy; a narrower one also leaves out trade services, the margins shops and wholesalers earn, which swing a lot.
4. Goods versus services: where the pressure comes from.

What the last report showed

The September 2026 report, published on Thursday 15 October, was a big one. According to the BLS release:

The BLS says more than 80% of the rise in goods prices came from energy, so fuel is doing most of the work. But the core measure also rose 0.5% in a month, which is not small. On 13 November the question is simple: did energy-driven price pressure keep spreading through the pipe in October, or did it cool?

We do not publish forecasts. Check the consensus on the morning in the daily gold news.

Why PPI can move gold

Gold pays no interest. Hot inflation makes markets expect the Federal Reserve to keep rates high or raise them, which tends to lift Treasury yields and the dollar, and both usually weigh on gold. A cooler number tends to work the other way. The chain is explained step by step in gold and Fed rate hikes.

PPI usually moves gold less than CPI, for three reasons:

• It comes after CPI. Traders will already have seen October CPI on 10 November; PPI confirms or muddies that story.
• It is one step removed from households. Producers do not always pass costs on.
• Some parts matter more than the headline. A few PPI items, such as portfolio management fees and airfares, feed into the PCE inflation figure that the Fed prefers. PCE itself is due on 25 November, before the Fed decides on 9 December.

What gold did in the last 12 PPI hours

We computed these numbers from our own COMEX gold futures (GC) one-hour bars, the same data and method as the PPI event page. Release hour is the one-hour bar that contains 8:30 am New York (so the 8:00 to 9:00 am bar, including 30 minutes before the number). Move is that bar’s close minus the previous hour’s close. Range is the bar’s high minus its low. Data as of 4 November 2026.

What the table says, in plain words (our calculations from the rows above):

• The median release-hour range was about $33. Half the hours moved less than that from high to low, half more. For comparison, the median for the last 12 CPI hours was about $41, as shown in our CPI time today page.
• The median size of the move, ignoring direction, was about $22.
• The hour closed higher 6 times and lower 6 times. There is no direction pattern to lean on.
• The tail is wide. Five of the 12 hours had ranges above $54, and 30 January 2026 reached $109.5. “Smaller than CPI on average” does not mean “small”.
• Rows with other data are mixed reactions: the hour’s move belongs to every release at that minute.

Adding the three earlier releases in our data (July to September 2025) gives a 15-release median range of about $29. These are COMEX futures prices, which trade a few dollars above spot XAUUSD but move almost the same way. Past ranges do not predict the next one.

Worked example: a 1:2 trade on PPI day

Here is a made-up example with real contract maths. On a standard XAUUSD contract, 1 lot is 100 ounces, so a $1 move in gold is $100 per lot, and 0.01 lot is $1 per $1 move. Your platform’s contract size may differ, so check the symbol’s specification.

Check your own numbers with the position size calculator and the pip calculator.

A plan for Friday 13 November

1. Find your time in the table and set an alarm 30 minutes before.
2. Read Tuesday’s CPI first. Write down whether October CPI came in hotter or cooler than expected. PPI will be read through that lens.
3. Note the forecast and last month’s figures: final demand +1.3% month and +6.3% year; core (less foods, energy and trade) +0.5% and +5.0%.
4. Decide before 8:30 am New York whether you will trade. Staying flat is a valid plan.
5. Check open trades and stops. Spreads widen around news. See why the gold spread widens on news.
6. Skip the first minute. The first jump is often taken back while the market reads the details.
7. Think about the weekend. COMEX gold closes at 5 pm New York on Friday and reopens on Sunday evening. Anything you hold after the PPI move is exposed to weekend news and a possible gap on Monday.
8. Mark your levels from the weekly gold cheat sheet and the markets page.

Common mistakes on PPI day, and the better way

What comes next

After PPI comes PCE on 25 November, then the Fed decision on 9 December (see our December hike odds explainer). The gold events hub lists every release, and the CPI day guide for XAUUSD and CPI event page give a routine you can reuse on PPI day.

What to do now

• Save the time: Fri 13 Nov 2026, 8:30 am New York = 13:30 GMT = 19:00 IST = 17:30 Dubai.
• Add the release to your calendar from the PPI event page.
• Note last month’s figures: +1.3% month, +6.3% year on final demand.
• Decide now: trade after the first hour, or stay flat.
• Make a weekend plan for any open trade.
• Log what happened in your trade journal.

Sources

• US Bureau of Labor Statistics, PPI release schedule (October 2026 PPI on 13 November 2026, 8:30 am; November 2026 PPI on 15 December 2026)
• US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Producer Price Indexes, September 2026, released 15 October 2026
• XAUUSD Global, PPI and gold event page and our COMEX gold futures (GC=F) one-hour bars, data as of 4 November 2026
• XAUUSD Global, CPI time today, for the CPI release-hour median
• Time zone conversions: IANA time zone database via Python zoneinfo
• The account example is hypothetical

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