Inflation declines to 3.65 per cent for the week ended December 8, compared to 3.75 per cent in the previous week, mainly due to fall in prices of food articles and some manufactured items. The wholesale price index-based inflation stood at 5.63 per cent in the corresponding week a year ago.
The annual rate of inflation based on monthly wholesale price index (WPI) was up at 1.32 per cent in September as compared to 0.16 per cent in the previous month.
Fada estimates that global supply chain headwinds like scarce availability of rare earth elements for electric vehicle components and geopolitical tensions may affect urban consumer sentiment in June as well.
The wholesale price-based food inflation rose for the fourth consecutive week. In the previous week it stood at 17.94 per cent.
The RBI's idiosyncratic focus on wholesale price inflation at the expense of retail inflation is a serious policy error.
In February last year, it was 9.54 per cent.
Inflation based on the wholesale price index zoomed to 6.12 per cent for the week ended January 6
Inflation has moved into positive territory for the first time since May 30. The inflation has gone up to 0.12 per cent for the week ended September 5.
Food inflation softened to 18.22 per cent as of the week ended December 26, although potato and pulses continued to cost high. The wholesale price based inflation was 19.83 per cent in the previous week.
Food inflation inched up to 17.40 per cent for the week ended January 16 on account of high prices of potato and pulses. The wholesale price-based food inflation was 16.81 per cent in the previous week. Potato prices rose as much as 57.56 per cent over the last year, followed by prices of pulses which jumped by 46.87 per cent.
As per official data released on Wednesday, WPI inflation in the food articles category rose to double digits at 11.91 per cent, driven mainly by price rise in onion, cereals and rice.
In the second week of December, the food inflation was at 18.65 per cent. Potato prices more than doubled while pulses became costly by over 41 per cent over the last year.
The wholesale price-based inflation stood at 5.34 per cent in the correpsponding week a year ago. This is a third week in a row that inflation has remained below the four per cent mark.
Inflation declines to 5.66 per cent for the week ended April 28 as compared to 5.77 per cent in the previous week.
The government said on Tuesday it is keeping a close watch on the price movements in a bid to keep inflation around five per cent.
Inflation rose to 0.70 per cent for the week ended April 25 on account of higher prices of essential food articles like cereals, pulses, vegetable, milk and sugar.
Wholesale prices-based inflation rose by 0.05 per cent to stand at 3.59 per cent during the week ended April 29 as against 3.54 per cent a week ago owing to food items going dearer.
Inflation rose to over three months high of 5.26 per cent for the week ended October 14, from 5.16 per cent in the previous week mainly due to increase in the prices of food and manufactured items.
There is no end in sight to the Centre's inflation woes. The wholesale price index-based inflation is expected to rise to 11.42 per cent for the week ended June 14, data for which will be released on Friday.
Though it eased slightly, prices of food items like rice, wheat pulses and potato showed a rise.
After falling for ten consecutive weeks, inflation stood unchanged at the previous week's level of 5.01 per cent for the week ended February 12 even though vegetables and fruits became costlier.
Inflation rose to 3.79 per cent for the first week of the New Year from 3.50 per cent during the previous week even as prices of some essential food items like vegetables and fruits fell.
The current fiscal began with inflation rising to 5.26 per cent during the week due to costlier food, fuel and manufactured products.
The wholesale price-based inflation stood at 5.78 per cent in the corresponding week a year ago. Among manufactured items, prices of bread and buns went up by seven per cent, while those of butter and cottonseed oil rose by two per cent, and maida one per cent.
Inflation based on the wholesale price index rose marginally to 4.2 per cent for the week ended November 12, from 4.14 per cent in the previous week mainly due to the rise in prices of minerals and non-food essential items.
The increase in the rate of price rise, noticed after a gap of more than two months, was due to an eight-day nation-wide strike by truck operators, which began on January 5. Among the items that became expensive during the week were fruit and vegetables (9 per cent), wheat (2 per cent) and spices, milk, ragi and rice (1 per cent each).
Inflation declined for the tenth consecutive week today to 5.24 per cent for the week ended January 3, primarily due to decline in prices of food articles.
However, risks to the outlook stems from possible sub-normal monsoon and higher crude oil prices (on account of the crisis in Iraq)," the Economic Survey 2013-14 tabled in Parliament by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.
Wholesale prices, India's main inflation measure, had risen 6.1 per cent in August.
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.
Inflation, as measured by the Wholesale Price Index, was 6.87 per cent in July.
Costlier petrol, diesel and food products pushed up inflation to 4.14 per cent during the week ended June 25 but it was much lower than 6.95 per cent a year ago.
Inflation eased to 4.28 per cent for the week ended June 9, as compared to 4.8 per cent for the previous week, mainly due to lower prices of food articles and some manufactured items.
Inflation, as measured by the movement in the wholesale prices, was 0.26 for the week ended April 11 and 8.23 per cent in the corresponding period a year ago. While the price of rice bran oil was up by 11 per cent, khandsari and cotton seed oil prices rose by eight per cent each.
Inflation declined to 5.44 per cent for the week ended May 5 against 5.66 per cent in the previous week owing to lower prices of essential food items and some manufactured products.
Inflation fell below the 6 per cent mark, after almost seven months, to 5.78 per cent during the week ended January 1, mainly due to a fall in prices of fuels, vegetables and fruits, edible oils and other food items.
Reversing its upward trend, inflation fell to a two-year low of 4.07 per cent in the week ended July 23 due to cheaper food products even as prices shot up for minerals, including iron ore
Inflation remained static at 7.1 per cent during the week ended October 16 despite rise in prices of fuel and manufactured products.
A spurt in prices of fruits, vegetables and some other items pushed up inflation to 6.09 per cent during the first week of the current fiscal, increasing pressure on interest rates ahead of the RBI's annual monetary policy on April 24.
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