Inflation.

New Delhi, May 21 Inflation edged up in early May on account of higher food prices, but held near a three-decade low, giving more freedom to the RBI to take steps to support a slowing economy. The annual Wholesale Price Index-based inflation rose 0.61 per cent during the week ended May 9, higher than 0.48 [...]

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Inflation eased to 0.18 per cent, the lowest ever in the last three decades, even as prices of food articles like pulses, cereals and vegetable hardened during the week ended April 4. The wholesale price-based index declined by 0.08 per cent against 0.26 per cent in the previous week. The decline was mainly due to [...]

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Inflation declined to 0.26 per cent, the lowest ever in more than three decades, for the week ended March 28 mainly on account of food items and mineral products, fuelling expectations of rate cuts by the Reserve Bank. The wholesale price-based index declined by 0.05 percentage points against 0.31 per cent in the previous week. [...]

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Continuing its southward journey, inflation slipped below 3% to 2.43% during the week ended February 28 from 3.03% a week earlier. The WPI number for week-ended January 3 has been revised to 5.33% versus 5.24%. Earlier a Reuters poll showed that the inflation rate was expected to have fallen to near seven-year lows at the [...]

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ndia’s wholesale price index rose 3.92 percent in the 12 months to Feb. 7, below the previous week’s annual rise of 4.39 percent, government data showed on Thursday. It was below a median forecast in a Reuters poll of analysts of 4.01 percent. The annual inflation rate was 4.98 percent during the corresponding week of [...]

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Inflation data was released yesterday , it is just .05 percent to go below 5 percent , it has come at 5.07 percent in 12 months to 24 January 2009,which is almost 0.60 percent down compared to previous week raised of 5.64 percent.

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India’s wholesale price index rose 5.24 percent in the 12 months to Jan. 3, below the previous week’s annual rise of 5.91 percent, government data showed on Thursday. It was marginally below a median forecast in a Reuters poll of analysts of 5.28 percent. The annual inflation rate was 4.26 percent during the corresponding week [...]

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India’s inflation slowed to a 10- month low, giving policy makers room to implement further measures to stimulate economic growth without fanning prices. Wholesale prices rose 5.91 percent in the week to Dec. 27 from a year earlier after gaining 6.38 percent the previous week, the commerce ministry said in New Delhi today. Economists expected [...]

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