Tag: retail inflation
Food weight to decline to 36.75% in new CPI series
New Delhi: Food and beverages will account for 36.75% weight in the new Consumer Price Index (CPI) series, down from the current 45.86%, reflecting changing…
Wholesale inflation hits 8-month high of 0.8% in December
New Delhi: Wholesale prices moved out of deflation after two straight months, recording an eight-month-high inflation of 0.83% in December, official data released Wednesday showed,…
India’s retail inflation rate rises to 1.33% but still below RBI tolerance band| Business News
India’s annual retail inflation quickened to 1.33% in December from 0.71% in November, as the decline in food prices moderated, government data showed on Monday….
RBI MPC 2026: No need to waste bullet when growth high, inflation low, says PwC on central banks’s rate cut
RBI MPC 2026: Making a case for status quo on interest rate by the RBI, PwC Partner and Economic Advisory Services leader Ranen Banerjee said…
Govt to tap e-tailers, online sources for price data in new CPI series
The government proposes to include online sources as well as e-commerce platforms to compute retail inflation in a bid to substantially improve reliability, accuracy, and…
Govt to release new series of retail inflation, GDP data from Feb, IIP from May
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) announced on Monday that it will release a new series of macroeconomic data next year, reflecting revised…
GST reforms may reduce retail inflation by 35 basis points in 2025-26: SBI report
The decline in Consumer Price Index (CPI) or retail inflation due to massive GST rate rationalisation has been around 25 bps so far in the…
Amid sharp fall in food costs, wholesale prices slip into deflation, again
New Delhi: Wholesale prices fell to a 27-month low and slipped back into deflation after two months of positive readings, declining to -1.2% in October,…
India’s wholesale prices fall 1.21% year-on-year in October
Wholesale price inflation (WPI) fell to (-) 1 .21 per cent in October, driven by a decline in prices of food articles like pulses and…
RBI has room to cut rates, can’t predict timing: Economists
MUMBAI: India’s record low retail inflation of 0.25% is ‘too low to ignore,’ economists said after the latest October print, with some of them pencilling…