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India’s factory inflation, as measured by the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), rose to a 10-month high of 1.81 percent in January, driven by a rise in food prices and firmer core inflation, according to data released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry on Monday. After remaining stable year-on-year in December 2025, food inflation reached […]
The MPC has changed the growth and inflation forecast in this policy | Photo credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA The Monetary Policy Committee’s decision to cut the policy rate by 25 basis points to 5.25 percent at the end of its last bi-monthly meeting of 2025 on December 5 was contrary to the ‘consensus’ view of […]
The sequential image of food inflation also shows a loss of momentum for food inflation. | Photocredit: Thulasi Kakkat The prices of everyday goods and services can fall in the coming days, because recent reductions in indirect taxes by the government are starting to show their effect, according to a report from Bank of Baroda […]
Inflation may be on recent lows, but the most important economist of Nomura for India and Asia ex-Japan, Sonal Varma, is of the opinion that the process remains good-lucky enough to give policy makers room for speed reductions later this year. Speaking with ET now prior to the CPI release, Varma said that the September […]
A reflection of the fit framework since its foundation in 2016 showed that the India has served well over the past nine years, including the challenging period since the Covid Pandemic | Photocredit: Danish siddiqui The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued a discussion document on Thursday about flexible inflation -targeting framework (Fit), with the […]
