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And now investor attention will continue to the producer price index which is due out today, which should give us a sense of how wholesale prices have increased in the last month. >> on-line sales increased over the holiday. the pandemic played a big role in that. how did this inflation continue. >> well, a huge driver of that increase was about 9% over the increase we saw. as you say, $204 billion. the reason for that is the cost from clothing to appliances to food. it rose over the period. online prices increased 3.1% year on year in december. it doesn't account for all the growth but certai...

There still sell celebrating. we have an eye-opening number for you right now. a week after japan's greatest natural disasters and an ongoing nuclear crisis shattered the country, barclay's has estimated the economic cost of the disaster for japan. and it's a very big number. it's somewhere between $144 billion and $204 billion. that's 12 trillion to 17 trillion yen or between 2.4% and 3.4% of japan's total gdp. >> and pauline, those kinds of numbers mean little to those who hardly have anything left right now. some survivors are trying to pick up what's left of their lives. our brian todd h...