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Inflation rose for the fifth consecutive week to 5.89 per cent during the week ended June 12, mainly due to rise in prices of fruits and vegetables, tea, eggs, minerals and manufactured products.
This is the second straight month of decline in wholesale price based inflation.
Inflation pierced the 5 per cent mark for the first time this fiscal for the week ended May 22 mainly due to a whopping 9 per cent rise in prices of vegetables and a moderate hike in the prices of other commodities like wheat, eggs and sugar.
The inflation fell for the second consecutive week, dropping by 0.06 per cent to 4.2 per cent for the week ended May 1 mainly due to cheaper vegetables, fruits, milk, maida and atta.
There is little to suggest inflation levels will come down since you hardly see the same levels of seasonality in prices that were there earlier.
In line with government's promise to keep commodity prices under check, inflation fell for the fourth consecutive week to 4.30 per cent for the period ended March 20, well within the 4-4.5 per cent forecast by the finance ministry.
Cheaper fruits, vegetables and edible oils pushed down inflation further to 4.78 per cent for the week ended March 13 despite costlier milk, skimmed milk powder, bread and buns, and baby food.
Inflation fell marginally for the second consecutive week to 6.12 per cent for the week ended January 24 notwithstanding the rising prices of some food and non-food articles and majority of manufactured products.
To be out by October, it reflects weight of components in GDP.
Inflation rate breached the 5.0 per cent mark during the week ended November 1, after a short span of 14 days, as food articles, fuel, and manufactured products became costly.
If the pattern over the last three months is going to continue, the likelihood is that both indices will register inflation rates close to current levels over the next few months.
Inflation stood unchanged for the second consecutive week at 4.4 per cent for the week ended April 17 despite vegetables and tea prices skyrocketing and a marginal hike in some of the manufactured products, including cement.
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Inflation rose marginally to 3.75 per cent during week ended September 17 from 3.53 per cent a week ago, mainly due to increase in the prices of minerals, manufactured products and non-food essential items.
Inflation declined for the fourth consecutive week ended May 21 to 5.38 percent mainly due to cheaper primary articles, including food and fuel products, even as fears that it could spurt looms large over an imminent price hike in fuels.
Inflation touched 5.48 per cent for the week ended April 9, mainly due to costlier vegetables, fruits, cooking gas and edible oils.
In line with the Centre's expectation of a benign price level, inflation fell further to 5.11 per cent in the penultimate week of 2004-05 fiscal, but was higher than 4.53 per cent a year-ago.
A sharp fall in iron ore prices could affect only a marginal decline in inflation to 5.23 per cent for the week ended March 12 since essential commodities like vegetables and fruits and several manufactured products became costlier.
While bank credit growth seems to be showing signs of revival, deposits could soon emerge as the new area of concern for bankers.
According to government estimates, in early December, potato prices had increased 136 per cent, sugar prices doubled and pulses zoomed by over 40 per cent compared to the previous year.
Inflation dropped by 0.05 per cent to 5.37 per cent, touching a 34-week low, for the week ended January 22, mainly due to cheaper vegetables, fruits, edible oils, minerals, fuel and manufactured products.
Inflation fell by 0.23 per cent to a 23-week low of 6.5 per cent for the fourth consecutive week ended December 18, mainly due to cheaper food items, edibles oils and manufactured products.
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Vegetable inflation softened to 24.76 per cent in June, down from 33.15 per cent in the previous month. Inflation in potato was (-) 24.27 per cent, against (-) 23.36 per cent in May.
Inflation rose to 4.62 per cent for the week ended December 17, from 4.5 per cent in the previous week mainly due to costlier fuel and non-food items.
The inflation fell marginally to 4.40 per cent for the week ended April 3 despite a whopping 20 per cent rise in vegetable prices and a substantial hike in the prices of fruits, milk and fuels for industries.
Inflation rose to (-)1.17 per cent for the week ended July 11 compared to (-)1.21 per cent in the previous week as food articles like pulses, cereals, fruits and vegetables turned expensive.
The inflation which hit a high of 13 per cent in August following spike in prices of petroleum products in the international market, has been on the decline since the outbreak of the global financial crisis in mid-September last year.
A rise in prices of diesel and petrol pushed up inflation to a 29-week high of 5.63 per cent for the week ended December 20 even as vegetables, edible oils and textiles became cheaper.
"We believe loose liquidity will increasingly feed into higher inflation from current levels. However, we expect a falling output gap, the primary determinant of inflation, and currency appreciation will keep inflation within the RBI's target range of below 5 per cent," Goldman Sachs analyst Tushar Poddar said in the report.
Inflation stood unchanged at the previous week's level of 4.4 per cent for the week ended April 10, even as prices fell for wheat, rice, fruits, vegetables and several edible oils.
The overall inflation went up marginally to 5.25 per cent for the week ended November 29 despite a sharp 9 per cent fall in vegetable prices.
Beating the expectations of the Reserve Bank of India and the government, inflation rose by 0.11 per cent to 5.91 per cent for the week ended February 7
In line with the expectations of the Reserve Bank of India and the Union government, inflation dropped to 5.8 per cent after remaining over 6.0 per cent in the recent period
The commodity prices eased further with inflation falling marginally by 0.06 per cent to 5.61 per cent during the week ended May 07
Inflation fell marginally to 6.13% for the week ended January 17, but public continued to pay higher prices for essential commodities with primary articles like fruits and vegetables, milk and many manufactured items becoming costlier.
Reflecting the "measured" steps taken by the Centre and the Reserve Bank to check prices, fiscal 2004-05 ended with inflation at 5.05 per cent for the week ended March 26 despite costlier food articles, including vegetables.
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