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After a sharp rise in Dec, vegetable prices moderate in Jan on availability

Prices of green vegetables started rising steadily since October but almost doubled in December on reports of flood-ravaged kharif crop damage in Maharashtra and delay in planting of rabi crop

Wholesale inflation rises to 7-month high of 2.59% on costlier vegetables

The core deflation indicates slowing growth in the manufacturing category

Wholesale inflation rises to 2.59% in December on higher food prices

The annual rate of inflation, based on monthly wholesale price index (WPI), stood at 3.46 per cent in December 2018.

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Govt may breach fiscal deficit target; need for stimulus rises: Report

The government might breach the fiscal deficit target this financial year amid drop in the revenue mobilisation and expected additional expenditure by the government, says a report. According to Dun & Bradstreet's Economy Forecast, the need for fiscal stimulus has increased even as the government finances remain "strained". "We expect that the drop in the revenue mobilisation of the government and likelihood of additional expenditure by the government might breach the fiscal deficit target in FY20," Dun & Bradstreet India Chief Economist Arun Singh said. The government has set a 3.3 per cent fiscal deficit target for the current fiscal. Singh further added that given the resources constraints, increase in fiscal deficit might lead to crowding out of private investments. According to the report, corporate liabilities are already higher. The balance-sheets of corporates, government, banks and households remain constrained or weak and revenue collection will play an important ...

Onions take food inflation to 71-month high; wholesale inflation at 0.58%

The core inflation rate (that seen in manufactured items sans food products) continued to be negative, at minus 1.7 per cent.

Wholesale inflation rises to 0.58% in Nov on costlier vegetables, pulses

The annual inflation, based on monthly wholesale price index (WPI), was at 4.47 per cent during the same month a year ago

Oct wholesale inflation at 40-month low of 0.16% on cheaper non-food items

The previous low was in June 2016, when inflation was negative 0.1 per cent. Deflationary pressure on manufactured product prices

Retail inflation at 14-month high, WPI falls to 39-month low of 0.33%

The CPI food inflation rate rose to 5.11 per cent in September

WPI inflation eases to 0.33% in September on cheaper non-food articles

The annual rate of inflation, based on monthly wholesale price index (WPI), was at 5.22 per cent in September 2018

WPI inflation unchanged at around 1% in August, gives RBI room for rate cut

Food inflation rises, but core turns into deflation, prompting rate cut hope

August WPI inflation remains unchanged at 1.08%, eases on YoY basis

In August 2018, the WPI had risen to 4.62%

WPI inflation cools to multi-year low of 1.08% in July vs 2.02% in June

The government data said inflation in food articles was 6.15 per cent in July as against 6.98 per cent in the previous month

At 1.08%, WPI inflation rate slips to over two-year low in July

Inflation rate in food items remained elevated even as it inched down to 6.15 per cent in July

WPI inflation eases to near two-year low at 2.02% in June

Data, released by the government last week, showed that the CPI inflation rate, in fact, rose to an eight-month high of 3.18 per cent in the month

WPI inflation eases to near 2-year low at 2.02% in June vs 2.45% in May

The Wholesale Price Index (WPI)-based inflation was at 2.45 per cent in May. It was 5.68 per cent in June 2018

WPI inflation slips to 3.07% in April, prices of food articles remain high

The Wholesale Price Index (WPI)-based inflation was at 3.18 per cent in March. It was 3.62 per cent in April 2018