Consumer Price Index Inflation

Retail prices may continue to remain elevated even as wholesale prices ease

With wholesale prices galloping in double-digits since April last year, companies found themselves in a fix, raise prices too much and hurt a nascent recovery in demand or absorb costs and take a hit

China consumer inflation in July reaches 2-year high as pork costs surge

The consumer price index in China rose 2.7% last month from a year earlier as pork prices surged 20.2%

May CPI inflation cools down to 7.04% from eight-year high in April

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

May retail inflation to cool down but remain above MPC's target: Poll

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

Testing tolerance

Price pressure will need a monetary response

CPI inflation likely peaked out; expected to moderate in February

Notably, high commodities cost especially of transport fuel prices triggered a wider inflationary trend in January 2022

RBI sees retail inflation moderating to 4.5% in FY23: Here's why

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) retained its inflation projection at 5.3 per cent for the current financial year

Govt launches new series for CPI-IW, no impact on dearness allowance

CPI-IW is used to compute DA of govt employees and industrial workers. The DA gets revised twice a year and is meant to adjust wage to the impact of inflation

Increasing the efficacy of monetary policy

If interest rates aren't reduced quickly & in good measure, the economy will continue to struggle

Retail inflation at 40-month high of 5.54% in Nov on higher food prices

Food prices rose the fastest in 5 years for the month in villages

As Inflation gets 'ugly' in April, RBI may be pushed to hike rates

Consumer prices rose 4.6 percent in April from a year earlier, the statistics ministry said in a statement in New Delhi on Monday, higher than the 4.4 percent median estimate in a Bloomberg survey

CPI for industrial workers up at 3.97% in Nov as food items get costlier

The All-India CPI-IW for November increased by 1 point and pegged at 288

October retail inflation touches 7-month high, vegetable prices soar

Grew at 3.58%, mainly due an increase in prices of consumer food items

Retail inflation rises marginally to 3.58% in Oct

This is 30 basis points higher than the 3.28 per cent recorded for September

Don't invest less only because inflation is low

Financial advisors factor in the long-term average rate to ensure savings not impacted