WPI Inflation
Wholesale inflation slips, but vegetable prices rise in April; will RBI cut rates?
Even as retail inflation picked up, wholesale inflation slipped in April on cheaper fuel and manufactured items official data showed Tuesday. Wholesale price-based inflation stood down at 3.07 per cent last month as against
Govt to come out with updated IIP, WPI indices by year-end
Government will come out with revised IIP and WPI indices by the end of this year with a new base year of 2011-12 in order to make them more representative of the changing economic scenario.
Time for a reality check on growth
The NDA government is starting its third year. It has had the unenviable task of reviving growth and return it to its 8% potential.
Good monsoon to send encouraging signals for inflation, growth
According to the research report, after two successive years of drought, the prediction of above normal monsoon will bring cheers to every sphere of the economy.
WPI falls for 17th straight month in March
Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for the month of March was reported at (-)0.85% as compared to -0.91% in February. March core inflation stands at (-)1.1% versus (-)1.6% in February.
WPI inflation in Feb at (-)0.91 per cent, falls for 16th straight month
Although a deflation in manufactured and fuel products narrowed in February, compared with the previous month, a fall in primary food inflation helped keep the WPI inflation almost the the January level.
India Inc reiterates rate cut demand as inflation remains negative
Deflationary pressure persisted for 15th month in a row, with WPI inflation slipping again, reversing its four-month trend to (-)0.9 per cent in January as food articles and vegetables turned cheaper.
WPI inflation falls for 14th straight month in Dec to -0.73 per cent, food inflation rises
Wholesale price inflation touched -0.73 per cent in December--retreating from -1.99 per cent recorded in the previous month but still remaining in the negative zone for 14 months in a row--mainly on a rise in food prices.
No reason to panic on export scenario: Commerce ministry
The country’s export scenario isn’t as bad as it looks on the surface. Barring oil, and gems and jewellery exports, where raw material prices have plunged drastically...
At -3.81%, WPI inflation remains in negative zone
The latest WPI data is also reflective of persisting weak demand conditions in the economy, analysts said
WPI Inflation at (-)3.81% in Oct; pulses, onion expensive
WPI inflation at (-)3.81 per cent in October. Food prices, however, rose 2.44 percent year-on-year for the same month.
WPI inflation remains in -ve zone for eleven months in a row
Wholesale price inflation touched -4.54% year-on-year in September — having clawed back from the record low of -4.95% in August but still remained in the negative zone...
Wholesale price inflation (-) 4.54% in September; food inflation inches up
Wholesale Price Inflation continued to remain in the negative territory for the eleventh straight month, at -4.54% in September, but slightly higher than the -4.95% in August.
Keeping inflation low is key to growth: RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan
Under pressure to cut interest rates to lower cost of capital, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan said keeping inflation low is the key task for sustainable economic growth of the country.
Wholesale price inflation touches -4.95% in August
Deflationary trend continued for the 10th month in a row with inflation plunging to a historic low of (-)4.95 per cent in August on cheaper fuel and vegetables, putting pressure on RBI to cut interest rate.
