Core wholesale prices rose less than expected in September; retail sales gain

Welcome back to Squawkbox. Rick Santelli here live at CME HQ with the breaking news of the morning. Finally, some real news.PPI producer price index for September. A bit late. Headline number coming in matching expectations of up 3/10.That would be the warmest since it was up 7/10 in July, which actually just a couple of months ago, at least based on this data. If we strip out uh the food and and add food and energy in, it becomes up one/10enth. That's cooler than expected.Up one/10enth would be the lightes ...