The increase is largely due to higher prices in various categories including food articles, manufacture of food products, crude petroleum & natural gas, mineral oils, and other manufacturing sectors.
July 15, 2024Economists often say a little rise in wholesale inflation is good as it typically incentivizes goods manufacturers to produce more.
June 14, 2024The high rate of wholesale inflation in April was primarily due to an increase in prices of food articles and minerals.
June 14, 2024The wholesale inflation for manufactured goods has persisted in the contractionary zone at minus 0.4 per cent YoY, though the extent of deflation has reduced.
May 15, 2024According to the Commerce and Industry Ministry, prices of non-food articles (-1.19 per cent) and minerals (-1.55 per cent) declined in April.
May 14, 2024Inflation in manufactured products, with a substantial weightage of 64.23 per cent in the index, rose by 0.50 per cent to 140.8 in April from 140.1 in March.
May 14, 2024The core inflation rate, which excludes fuel and food items, stood at -1.2 per cent in March in comparison to February’s figure of -1.3 per cent.
April 15, 2024This is the third consecutive month of decline in the annual rate of WPI inflation, which had stood at 0.73 per cent in December.
March 14, 2024Economists say a little rise in wholesale inflation is good as it typically incentivizes goods manufacturers to produce more.
January 15, 2024The WPI inflation was at -0.52 per cent in October and 2023 and 6.12 per cent in November 2022.
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