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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

WPI inflation spikes to 3.18% in March on costlier food, fuel

Inflation in food articles hardened with a steep rise in prices of vegetables during March 2019

February WPI inflation surges to 2.93% on rise in food, fuel prices

Economists are not sure whether it is an effect of rise in the minimum support price or drop in rabi sowing acreage

WPI inflation eases to a 10-month low of 2.76% in January on cheaper fuel

The trend is in line with the consumer price inflation rate, which declined to a 19-month low of 2.05 per cent in January from 2.11 in December

WPI inflation falls to 8-month low of 3.8% in Dec on easing food prices

December food inflation rose to to 0.07 per cent as compared to -1.96% month on month (MoM)

Rural distress: WPI inflation eases to 3-month low of 4.64% in November

November was the fifth month in a row when prices of food items kept declining

WPI-based inflation down to 4.64% in Nov from 5.28% the previous month

November food inflation also saw a drop to -1.96% as compared to -0.64% MoM