Gas And Fruit Are Expensive! (CQB, FE)

Big fruit producers have underperformed this year, such as Chiquita Brands

which is down over 15% this year, and First Energy

which is down over 19% this year. Maybe it's because gas and fruit are so expensive nowadays. Showing the biggest increase in eight months, today's Producer Price Index (

) figures rose 0.8% in November versus the 0.6% estimate of

. Compared with a year earlier, companies paid 3.5% more for goods this November. The leaders in the price increases included gasoline and fruit.