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  January retail inflation declines to 4.06%, vegetables become cheaper

  Business | February 12, 2021 20:01 IST

  Sequentially, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which gauges the retail price inflation, declined to 4.06 per cent from 4.59 per cent reported for December 2020.

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  Retail inflation for industrial workers eases to 3.67 per cent in December

  Business | January 29, 2021 16:38 IST

  Retail inflation for industrial workers eased to 3.67 per cent in December 2020 against 9.63 per cent in the same month of last year due to lower prices of certain food items.

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  Retail inflation for farm, rural workers eases in December on lower food prices

  Business | January 20, 2021 17:53 IST

  Retail inflation for farm and rural workers eased to 3.25 per cent and 3.34 per cent, respectively, in December, mainly due to lower prices of certain food items.

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  Retail inflation drops to 4.59 per cent in December: Govt data

  Business | January 12, 2021 19:02 IST

  Food inflation declined to 3.41 per cent in December in 2020, compared to 9.5 per cent in the previous month, according to the data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.

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  Retail inflation for industrial workers eases to 5.27% in November

  Business | December 31, 2020 18:45 IST

  ​Retail inflation for industrial workers eased to 5.27 per cent in November compared to 5.91 per cent in October, mainly due to lower prices of certain food items.  

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  Costlier veggies, eggs push retail inflation to six-and-half year high of 7.61 per cent in Oct

  Business | November 12, 2020 21:10 IST

  Driven by rising food prices, retail inflation inched up to 7.61 per cent in October, remaining above the comfort level of the Reserve Bank.

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  Retail inflation spikes to eight-month high to 7.34 pc in Sept, industrial output drops 8 pc in Aug

  Business | October 12, 2020 21:49 IST

  Rising food prices pushed retail inflation to an eight-month high of 7.34 per cent in September, above the RBI's comfort level, while industrial output continued to contract in August, official data showed on Monday.

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  Retail inflation rises by 6.09% in June

  Business | July 13, 2020 18:32 IST

  ​Retail inflation rose by 6.09 percent in June, mainly on account of higher prices of food items, the government data showed on Monday.  

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  Retail inflation eases to 6.58% in February

  Business | March 12, 2020 17:59 IST

  Retail inflation slowed to 6.58 per cent in February over the previous month mainly due to easing food prices, government data showed on Thursday. The retail inflation based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 7.59 per cent in January and 2.57 per cent in February 2019.  

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  Retail inflation jumps to nearly six-year high of 7.59% in January on high food prices

  Business | February 12, 2020 19:44 IST

  Retail inflation jumped to over five-and-a-half-year high of 7.59 per cent in January on persistently high prices of vegetables, pulses and protein-rich meat and fish, government data showed on Wednesday. 

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  Retail inflation may force RBI to hold rates: Report

  India | January 14, 2020 21:00 IST

  Retail inflation, which accelerated to 7.35 per cent in December and could breach 8 per cent in January, may force the Reserve Bank of India to hold rates in the monetary policy review next month, according to a report. 

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  Food price rise takes India's inflation to 5-year high: What it means

  Business | January 14, 2020 12:13 IST

  The retail inflation is on a 5-year high level of 7.4% as of December 2019 majorly driven by the inflation in the food price index, which also stood at 14.12%. A look at key statistics and what holds in future in terms of RBI's rate cut and probable inflation levels in the coming months.

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  Retail inflation rises to 5-yr high of 7.35 percent in December, surpasses RBI's comfort level

  Business | January 13, 2020 18:48 IST

  Retail inflation rose sharply to 7.35 percent in December 2019 from 5.54 percent in November, government data said on Monday.

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  Wholesale inflation rises 0.58 per cent in November

  Business | December 16, 2019 12:46 IST

  Wholesale prices based inflation rose to 0.58 per cent in November, as against 0.16 per cent in October due to increase in prices of food articles. The annual inflation, based on the monthly wholesale price index (WPI), was at 4.47 per cent during the same month a year ago (November 2018).

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  Retail inflation spikes to 3-yr high of 5.54 per cent in Nov, IIP shrinks for 3rd month at 3.8 per c

  Business | December 12, 2019 20:54 IST

  According to the data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO), costlier vegetables, pulses and protein rich items pushed the consumer price index (CPI) based retail inflation to a 40-month high in November.

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  Retail inflation shoots up to over 3-year high of 5.54% in November

  Business | December 12, 2019 18:21 IST

  The previous high of CPI was 6.07 in July 2016. The Reserve Bank of India has been mandated by the government to contain inflation in the range of 4 per cent, with a margin of 2 per cent on either side.

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  Retail inflation jumps to 4.62 per cent in October

  Business | November 13, 2019 18:44 IST

  The inflation based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 3.99 per cent in September and 3.38 per cent in October 2018. The inflation in the food basket spiked to 7.89 per cent in October 2019 as against 5.11 per cent the preceding month

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  Retail inflation inches up marginally to 3.21 per cent in August

  Business | September 12, 2019 18:01 IST

  The rate of price rise in the food basket was 2.99 per cent in August, up from 2.36 per cent in the previous month, as per the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data released by the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation.  

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  July retail inflation softens to 3.15 per cent on lower fuel rates

  Business | August 13, 2019 22:54 IST

  Prices of vegetables, eggs, meat and fish pushed the retail inflation up year-on-year. Vegetables' prices increased 2.82 per cent, meat and fish 9.05 per cent, eggs 0.57 per cent and pulses and its products 6.82 per cent.

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  Retail inflation rises for sixth straight month, up 3.18% in June

  Business | July 12, 2019 19:19 IST

  Rising for sixth month in a row, retail inflation rose to 3.18 per cent in June due to costlier food products such as grains, pulses and protein-rich items meat and fish, government data showed Friday.