９月の企業物価指数、1.7％上昇・伸び率は縮小

　日銀が12日発表した9月の国内企業物価指数（2000年＝100、速報値）は103.6となり、前年同月比1.7％上昇した。結婚パーティー 原材料の世界的な需要増などを受けて上昇は43カ月連続となった。ただ8月の原油や銅の価格下落などを受け、伸び率は8月に比べ0.3ポイント縮小した。

　企業物価指数は企業が出荷や卸売り段階で取引する製品などの価格から算出する指数で、企業間の物価動向を示す。製品別では、「石油・石炭製品」は前年同月比1.1％上昇したが、伸び率は前月から1.7ポイント縮小した。「非鉄金属」も1.9％上昇したものの、伸び率は前月から1.5ポイント縮小した。

　日銀は「企業が価格交渉の期間を短くしているため、原材料価格が企業物価に反映されやすくなっている」（調査統計局）とみている。(10:46)

Hmong Leader Held on Coup Charges

By DON THOMPSON
The Associated Press
Monday, June 11, 2007; 11:26 PM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Hundreds of a Hmong leader's supporters demonstrated outside a federal courthouse Monday as a magistrate refused to release him on bail while he awaits trial on charges of trying to overthrow the communist government of Laos.

Despite his age and deteriorating health, Vang Pao, 77, is too dangerous and too great a flight risk to be freed under any circumstances, U.S. Magistrate Judge Edmund Brennan ruled after a 30-minute hearing.


Vang Pao and eight other Hmong elders were arrested June 4 on charges that they tried to buy nearly $10 million worth of military weapons and recruit mercenaries to unseat Laos's communist government.

A 10th defendant, retired California National Guard Lt. Col. Harrison Jack, is also charged, accused of trying to arrange the coup through an arms broker who turned out to be an undercover federal agent.

Hmong from across California and several other states packed the courtroom and filled a courthouse plaza and surrounding sidewalks for Vang Pao's detention hearing. Court security officials estimated that 500 to 1,000 Hmong showed up.