Consumer Price Index-based Inflation

Retail inflation: his is lower than 6.52 per cent in January but still above the Reserve Bank of India's upper tolerance limit of 6 per cent

May make MPC less hawkish on rate hike; WPI inflation dips to 19-month low of 8.39% in Oct

Canada's Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 6.9 per cent in September on a year-over-year basis, decelerating from 7 per cent in August, Statistics Canada has said.

Says persistent high inflation needs policy response

The Consumer Prices Index rose 10.1% in July in the UK from a year earlier after a 9.4% gain the month before

Italy's consumer price index climbed a record-setting 6.8 per cent year-on-year in May, the highest since 1990, data published by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) revealed.

The latest figure also makes it historically the highest in 31 years since September 1991 (16.31 per cent)

The excise duty cuts for petrol and diesel and duty cuts on other items may have played a part in cooling inflation

Reuters poll of 45 economists shows CPI for June is likely to come in at 7.1%; Excise cuts on fuel, duty cuts on other items may have helped cool down inflation

No compromise on capex; consolidated fund to be used if needed, the source said

MPC likely to revise inflation forecast upward in August policy review

GDP data for the April to June quarter will reveal how badly the economy was hit by the coronavirus pandemic

Retail headline inflation in March 2020 fell to a four-month low of 5.9 per cent, 0.7 per cent lower from a month ago and 3.1 per cent higher than the corresponding month a year ago

GDP growth forecast for FY20 has been revised downwards from 6.1 per cent in the October policy to 5 per cent

It said that the maximum downward pressure to the change in current index came from food group contributing (-) 2.37 percentage points to the total change

The February headline numbers were far below estimates and may push RBI to not delay a cut in interest rates