Tag: retail inflation
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…
ET Graphics: October inflation eases to record low after GST cuts
Prices dropped in October following the recent goods and service tax (GST) rationalisation. The reduction in GST rates, from 12% to 5% and 28% to…
GST rate cuts pull down October inflation by 85 bps, declining trend to continue: Experts
The GST rate cuts brought down retail inflation by 85 basis points to a record low of 0.25 per cent in October and the declining…
India’s retail inflation rate falls to a record low of 0.25% in October 2025 after GST rate cuts| Business News
India’s retail inflation rate fell to its lowest on record in October 2025 due to a sharp drop in food inflation and GST rate cuts….
India’s retail inflation likely fell to multi-year low of 0.48% in October: Reuters poll
India’s consumer inflation rate likely plunged to the lowest in at least a decade in October on a sustained fall in food prices, and intensified…