What is CPI-based Inflation or Retail Inflation

Assam, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Odisha, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, and Delhi experienced higher rural inflation than urban inflation

CPI inflation was at 6.7% in July, the first time in four months that the price gauge fell below 7%

Companies have moved toward lighter loads in their cheapest packages amid rising costs of edible oils, grains and fuel

For the RBI, a correct reading of its mandate would have been that the inflation target is 4%, not 6%. And action to raise interest rates should have begun last year, writes T N Ninan

CLOSING BELL: Axis Bank, Kotak Bank, Maruti Suzuki, Power Grid, SBI Life, and ICICI Bank were the top winners on the benchmark indices, rising upwards of 0.5 per cent each

The committee held the lending rate, or the repo rate , at 4%. The reverse repo rate, or the key borrowing rate, was also maintained at 3.35%

Central bank maintains FY22 GDP forecast at 9.5 per cent and projected retail inflation to be at 5.3 per cent.

Repo rate and the reverse repo rate remain unchanged at 4% and 3.35%

Stocks on Wall Street at first took the CPI data in stride, bidding up technology stocks that typically thrive with low interest rates

At a time of declining incomes, people don't have money. So they do not buy. If they don't buy, prices must fall, not increase. What, then, explains the inflation? T C A Srinivasa Raghavan explores

Revision of CPI and GDP base years from 2011-12 and 2012, respectively, was dependent on the outcomes of the consumer expenditure survey of 2017-18, which the govt junked sometime back

The second wave could increase risk for the banking system

The manufacturing sector output contraced by 3.7 per cent in February, while the mining output declined by 5.5 per cent. Meanwhile, the power generation grew by 0.1 per cent

The WPI inflation was 1.22 per cent in December, 2020 and 3.52 per cent in January last year

RBI has done exceptionally well in managing government's extended borrowing this year when fiscal deficit has shot-up to 9.5 per cent of GDP

Higher inflation projection rules out any rate cut possibility in the first half of FY22; bond yield jumps

There are dedicated ombudsman schemes devoted to consumer grievance redressal in banking, non-bank finance companies and digital transactions, respectively, at present

Projection for CPI-based inflation revised to 5.2% for Q4 of FY21, for H1 of FY22 at 5% to 5.2%, and for Q3 of FY22 at 4.3%

The other signals expected from the policy related to the rollback of measures announced during the pandemic

The central bank had slashed the repo rate by 115 basis points since late March 2020 to support growth