Page 2 - Consumer Price Index Inflation

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