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CPI Inflation seen at 4.8% in FY18, fears exaggerated: Report

The rupee which was at 66.7 to a dollar at February-end is currently hovering around 64-level

WPI jumps to 39-month high of 6.55% in Feb

Snapping a trend of last four months, both inflation numbers based on the consumer price index (CPI) and the wholesale price index (WPI) moved in the same direction, rising in February against the previous month. While WPI inflation jumped to a 39-month high of 6.55 per cent in February compared to 5.25 per cent in the previous month, the CPI inflation rose to a three-month high of 3.6 per cent from 3.2 per cent. The data justified the Reserve Bank of India's caution on loose monetary stance amid expected increase in interest rates in the United States in the next few days. The likelihood of RBI cutting the policy rates in April remained subdued. The inflation numbers were up on the back of expensive food and fuel items, even as manufacturing products saw a decline in inflation. With this gap between WPI and CPI which have been widening in the last few months would narrow down a bit. However, the rise in WPI was much sharper than CPI."WPI inflation recorded a much sharper uptick in ..

CPI inflation picks up to 3.65% in Feb, highest since Oct 2016

It was 3.17% in January; food inflation rises to 2%

CPI-based inflation eases to a five-year low of 3.17% in January

In December, the rate of retail inflation had stood at 3.41%, food inflation at 0.53%

CPI inflation likely to ease at 3.2%

It was at 3.4% in December 2016

Retail inflation at record low in Nov

Contraction in demand after demonetisation cited as the main reason

Inflation down in October, bolsters hopes of a rate cut by RBI

CPI inflation declines to the lowest in new series; WPI lowest in four months

September retail inflation at 13-month low to 4.31%

Consumer Food Price Inflation for September 2016 was 3.88%

Villages hit harder by rising prices

Inflation has been higher in rural areas than urban parts for five years, says a CRISIL study

December CPI reading likely to be sub-4%: SBI Research

The decline in inflation trajectory is expected to be driven by several factors like fall in pulse prices, projection of above normal monsoon

August CPI inflation likely to be in 6.1-6.3% range: D&B

D&B expects WPI inflation to be in the range of 4-4.2 per cent and that of CPI to be 6.1-6.3 per cent in August this year

High inflation, market valuations reasons to stay away from equities

This is the highest year-on-year change in the CPI in the last 24 months and it is a substantial rise from the June levels above 5.77%

Chidambaram terms Jaitley's UPA inflation figures as 'Voodoo statistics'

Jaitley said the last two years of UPA government had double digit price rise, with CPI inflation at 10.2 per cent in 2012-13