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New WPI Shows Much Higher Inflation: 16.22%

As the Wholesale Price Index changes series to the 2004-05 base year, the changes in Primary Articles Inflation are huge. Primary articles inflation in the new ...

RBI raises Repo to 6%, Rev Repo to 5%

RBI raised interest rates today and both Repo and Reverse Repo went up to 6% and 5% respectively (increase of 0.25% and 0.5%). In their statement: Inflation ...

Monthly Inflation for Aug 2010 at 8.5%

With the new WPI Base series (2004-05) coming into play today, the monthly Wholesale Price Index for August shows an inflation of just 8.5%. The index has a ...

Food Inflation 15.4%, Revisions Still Scary!

Primary Articles Inflation – which is mostly food – is now up to 15.4% on August 28, 2010, with the index at an all time high of 314. What’s still scary ...

Inflation: Primary Articles at 15.2%

We continue the “Scary Revisions” series of Primary articles inflation (mainly food). Data for 21 Aug 2010 showed the primary articles inflation at 15.19%. ...

Food Inflation at 14.75%, Scary revisions 2%+

Primary articles inflation (mainly food) was announced at 14.75% but as usual what is worry is the restatement of past data. Primary articles inflation of 18th ...

Food Inflation at 14.85%: Dangerous Past Revisions

Food Inflation – the “Primary Articles” part of the WPI – is quietly inching downwards, at 14.85%. Click for larger images. While inflation looks like ...

June Monthly WPI at 262.5, Inflation at 9.97%

From the monthly inflation release desk, the WPI goes down to 9.97% from last month’s headline number of 10.55%. What’s scary? Like last month, the May ...

Deflation is Really Bad: Or, What Is Krugman On?

Paul Krugman explains why deflation is bad: So first of all: when people expect falling prices, they become less willing to spend, and in particular less ...

RBI raises Repo rate by 25 bps to 5.75%

The Reserve Bank of India in its quarterly credit policy meet raised repo rates to 5.75% and reverse repo rates to 4.5%. Repo is what banks pay to borrow from ...