 "Pitrupaksh Photo: Rahul Saha")
Consumer sentiments shot up by an impressive 5.5 per cent during the week ended September 17. This is an unusually high increase of the consumer sentiments index during a week.
The pitrupaksh period did not dampen spirits in 2017, like it did not in 2016.
The proportion of households that said that this was a good time (compared to other times) to buy consumer durables increased to 26.2 per cent. This is higher than in any of the preceding four weeks. The past four weeks' average was 24 per cent. The proportion of households that said that this was
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