All three specific figures Cooper cited are confirmed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' official April 2026 PPI release [1][2]. Cooper's statement contains three independently testable quantitative figures and a framing attribution to energy: (1) PPI up 6% year-over-year, (2) PPI up 1.4% month-over-month, (3) the monthly figure was almost three times Wall Street estimates, and (4) the surprise is attributable to "the rising cost of energy lately." All three quantitative figures are confirmed. Final demand producer prices rose 1.4% for the month, seasonally adjusted, and 6.0% for the 12 months ended in April on an unadjusted basis [1][2]. The Wall Street consensus forecast for the monthly figure was 0.5% [3], making the 1.4% actual result 2.8 times the estimate, accurately described as "almost three times" [4][5]. Several financial outlets, including Babypips and BeInCrypto, used nearly identical language ("nearly three times," "nearly triple") to characterize the same monthly beat [4][5]. The phrase "almost three times more than Wall Street estimates" reads most naturally in context as describing the monthly comparison (1.4% vs. 0.5%), not the annual one; that reading is supported by the arithmetic. The price figures themselves all come from a single authoritative source, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is the official record for producer prices; the source strength rating reflects that single origin. On the fourth element, Cooper's attribution to energy is directionally supported on the goods side, where energy drove more than three-quarters of the advance, including a 15.6% surge in gasoline [2]. The 1.4% headline figure Cooper cited, however, was approximately 60% services-driven, not energy-driven [2][3]; multiple outlets covering the release surfaced the services acceleration as the more economically significant element underneath the energy headline [3][5]. Cooper's "reflected in" language does not assert energy was the sole driver, and the directional implication holds, but the framing emphasizes the lesser component of the headline number. No corrections or retractions were issued by CNN or Cooper regarding this segment.