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The retail inflation figure for December 2025 is the final instalment of the current series of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), with a base year of 2012, before it is updated to a new base year and with new weightages. The CPI data this year have been particularly useful in highlighting the problems with relying…
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Ms. Gupta also spoke about initiatives brought in by the RBI to disseminate data. She said that the balance of payments (BoP) data is soon expected to be released on a monthly basis. Photo: X/@PIBMumbai “There is no systemic bias in the central bank’s inflation forecast,” said Poonam Gupta, Deputy Governor of RBI, adding that reducing…
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The retail inflation data for October once again underscore the fact that the update of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) cannot happen fast enough. The data show that the rate of overall inflation fell to just 0.25%, the lowest it has been since at least January 2012. On the face of it, this would be…
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The three-day closed-door Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting, which commenced on Monday (September 29, 2025), has raised hopes of a rate cut. The October policy comes within weeks of a cut in Goods and Services Tax (GST) and at a time when demand is likely to be created in the domestic market amid the…
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“An increase in headline inflation and food inflation during the month of August, 2025 is mainly attributed to an increase in inflation of vegetables, meat and fish, oil and fats, personal care and effects, and eggs,” the National Statistics Office said. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: Reuters Retail inflation in August rose slightly to…
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Vegetable and pulses prices contracted 21% and 14% respectively, driven by a high base and falling prices. File. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Retail inflation in India slipped to 1.55% in July 2025, the lowest since June 2017, and below the Reserve Bank of India’s comfort band of 2-6%, primarily led by a contraction…
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Potato is one of the top five items which showed highest year-on-year inflation at All India level in December 2024 at 68.23%. | Photo Credit: ANI India’s retail inflation eased a bit to a four-month low of 5.22% in December 2024 from 5.5% in November 2024, with food inflation cooling marginally from 9.04% in November…
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An official said that initiatives such as transportation through rail to various consuming centres from Maharashtra and the arrival of kharif onions in the market are likely to bring prices further down. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu As the prices of tomato, onion, and potato (TOP), the three essential vegetables in Indian households, remained…
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A scene at a vegetable market in Delhi. | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA India’s retail inflation stayed under the Reserve Bank of India’s median target of 4% for the second successive month in August, even as it inched up marginally to 3.65% from an upwardly revised 3.6% in July. August’s inflation pace is the…
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A fruit vendor tends to customers at a fruit and vegetable wholesale market in Mumbai, India, February 8, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Retail inflation increased to 5.08% in June as kitchen items became dearer, according to government data released on July 12. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based retail inflation was 4.8% in May…