This is the ninth consecutive time that the retail inflation has come above RBI's tolerance level of six per cent.
14 Oct 2022 12:05 AM
As the data, the prices of palm oil, the world's most consumed vegetable oil, surged nearly 50 per cent this year
13 Apr 2022 9:31 AM
The RBI, which mainly factors in the CPI-based inflation, has been tasked to keep the inflation at 4%, with margin of 2% on either side
15 Feb 2022 9:25 AM
Wholesale price-based inflation too accelerated to a record 12.94 per cent in May
14 Jun 2021 11:55 PM
In October, inflation based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) spiked to a 16-month high of 4.62 per cent on costlier food items.
14 Nov 2019 3:19 PM
Prices of cereals and products were also high at 2.16 per cent against 1.66 per cent a month ago.
14 Nov 2019 4:28 AM
The price rise in the food basket was recorded at 5.11 per cent in September, as against 2.99 per cent in the preceding month.
14 Oct 2019 9:46 PM
If the consensus is right, inflation will come in below the RBI’s medium-term target for 14 months in a row.
10 Oct 2019 3:31 PM
However, retail inflation is still within the Reserve Bank's target range, thus keeping hopes of another rate cut alive.
12 Sep 2019 7:18 PM
Every bank has to deposit a percentage of their deposits in the RBI to safeguard the interests of the depositors.
20 Aug 2019 8:21 AM
The consumer price index (CPI)-based retail inflation was at 2.57 per cent in February this year.
13 Apr 2019 9:06 AM
Consumer inflation in January was re-examined downwards to 1.97 per cent from 2.05 per cent, as per an official statement.
12 Mar 2019 6:29 PM
WPI-based inflation stood at 3.8 per cent in December, 2018, and 3.02 per cent in January 2018.
14 Feb 2019 12:47 PM
The report expect a 50 basis points of rate cut in the first half of 2019.
16 Jan 2019 1:49 PM
While the retail inflation dipped to an 18-month low of 2.19 per cent, the wholesale inflation fell to an eight-month low of 3.80 per cent.
15 Jan 2019 12:52 AM
The consumer price index (CPI)-based inflation fell to a one-year low of 3.31 per cent in October 2018.
13 Nov 2018 3:17 PM
The inflation based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) stood at 4.17 per cent in July and 3.28 per cent in August 2017.
12 Sep 2018 6:02 PM
In the food items, the inflation rate for fruits dropped to 6.98 per cent.
14 Aug 2018 8:36 AM
It was five-month high on 5.0 per cent in the previous month.
13 Aug 2018 6:02 PM
Food inflation in June 2018 was just 2.9 per cent, he said.
07 Aug 2018 3:08 PM