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Retail inflation eases to 4.83% in April on softening fuel prices

Core inflation has also trended downwards at 3.2 per cent, which is the lowest in the 2012 base CPI series

Inflation data, Q4 earnings, trends to drive markets this week: Analysts

Stock markets will be driven by domestic inflation data, ongoing quarterly earnings from corporates and global trends this week, analysts said. News flows around the general election would also be tracked by investors, market experts said. Besides, investors would also take cues from the trading activity of foreign investors, the movement of global oil benchmark Brent crude and the rupee-dollar trend. "Investors will be bombarded with economic data on both domestic and global fronts. Domestically, watch for Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Wholesale Price Index (WPI). Globally, focus will be on the US Producer Price Index (PPI) and Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures. "Additionally, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech will be a key event to watch. China's industrial production data and Japan's GDP figures round out the important releases for the week," said Santosh Meena, Head of Research, Swastika Investmart Ltd. Vinod Nair, Head of Research at Geojit Financial Services, sa

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Consumer price inflation likely eased to 5-month low of 4.91% in March

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said last week that food price volatility remains a concern

Would like inflation elephant to return to forest, stay there: RBI Guv Das

RBI monetary policy: In no hurry to cut repo rate, MPC keeps status quo; retains FY25 growth, inflation forecasts

Monetary policy: 'Real rates do matter, inflation must align with target'

Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das and Deputy Governor Michael Patra responded to a host of queries in the post-policy interaction with the media. Edited excerpts:

RBI wants inflation elephant in the forest. Can pricier oil bring it back?

After witnessing sustained moderation, cost push pressures faced by firms, the RBI said, are showing upward bias

Will RBI change focus to growth after PM Narendra Modi's speech?

While the central bank has not hiked the repo rate for more than a year now, but it has refused to drop the guard on inflation even if core inflation has moderated

Improved summer sowing likely to ease inflation: Finance Ministry

Says CAD needs to be watched in FY25

Inflation still high and focus on minimising risk, says RBI report

Indicates 'significant per capita income shifts' underway

Debt fund managers go bullish on G-Sec after global index inclusion

Cite better balance between demand and supply as well as inflation relief

Let's get real about rates

Given myriad cross currents across inflation, growth and financial stability, monetary policy in 2024 will have to cross the river by feeling the stones

Wholesale inflation eases to a four-month low of 0.2% in February

The prices of manufactured products, which have a weighting of 64.2 per cent in the index, remained in deflation (minus 1.27 per cent) for the twelfth consecutive month in February

Costlier food keeps retail inflation elevated in Feb; Jan IIP growth eases

Madan Sabnavis, chief economist, Bank of Baroda, said inflation in February was purely a food-driven phenomenon, which would continue to pressure prices in the coming months

Modi's guarantee a jumla, real issues are unemployment, inflation: Priyanka

Hitting out at the Centre over people seeking jobs in Israel, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday said talk of five trillion dollar economy and Modi's guarantee are just a "jumla" with the real issue in the country being that of unemployment and inflation for which she claimed the BJP government has no solution. The Congress general secretary shared a video on X which showed people queuing up for a recruitment drive to send workers to Israel. In a post on X in Hindi, Gandhi said, "If there is a war situation anywhere, then first of all we rescue our citizens from there and bring them back to our country." "But today unemployment has resulted in such a situation that the government is not even saving thousands of helpless youth from taking the risk of going to war-torn Israel," she said. "This shows, that talk of things like '5 trillion dollar economy', 'two crore jobs annually' and 'Modi's guarantee' during elections is just jumla (rhetoric)," she said. Why are the yo

Inflation needs to align with target by 2nd quarter: RBI monthly bulletin

It says headline inflation must align with 4% target by second quarter

WPI-based inflation increases to 0.73% in December on rise in food prices

Positive rate of inflation in December, 2023 was primarily due to an increase in prices of food articles, machinery & equipment, other manufacturing, other transport equipment

Nine states record higher inflation than India average, shows data

While the average Indian consumer's cost of living rose by 5.69 per cent compared to the previous year, it rose 8.73 per cent in Odisha, 7.07 per cent in Gujarat and 6.95 per cent in Rajasthan

RBI continues battle against inflation; eyes on possible rate cut in 2024

For five consecutive policy reviews in 2023, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) chose to hold rates, citing inflation threat. And when the prices did cool off a bit, it reminded all about the target to get the headline consumer price inflation at 4 per cent and the risks from food inflation. Heading into the new year, all eyes are on when RBI will cut the rates, especially after one of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) members stressed on the need for such an action in the face of the US Federal Reserve's guidance for easing rates. Also, some analysts point to the Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) falling below the 4 per cent mark in mid-2024 and then, there will be prospects of a rate cut. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das, who is into the last year of his second three-year term at the helm of the central bank, has been steadfast in highlighting the need to get the inflation down to 4 per cent on a durable basis. CPI cooled off to a four-month low of 4.87 per cent in October but rose to 5.5

Objective of durably aligning inflation with target far from assured

The target for the central bank is to maintain inflation at 4 per cent, with a band of 2 per cent on either side