Contraction deepens: August WPI inflation falls to -4.95%
   
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Contraction deepens: August WPI inflation falls to -4.95%

Last Updated: Monday, September 14, 2015, 12:41
 
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Contraction deepens: August WPI inflation falls to -4.95%
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New Delhi: The Wholesale Price Index (WPI)-based inflation contracted sharply for the 10th straight month to -4.95 percent in the month of August against negative 4.05 percent in July, influenced by global deflationary trend in commodity prices.

The fall compared with a 4.40 percent year-on-year decline forecast by economists in a Reuters poll and a provisional 4.05 percent plunge in July.

The wholesale fuel prices tumbled 16.50 percent from a year ago, while food prices dropped 1.13 percent year-on-year.

Prices of manufactured goods declined 1.92 percent on year last month.

The WPI number follows retail inflation data which had slipped to a record low of 3.78 percent in July.

Arvind Subramanian, Modi`s chief economic adviser, early this month warned of looming deflation and called for measures to boost consumer demand and step up investment.

RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, however, is worried about a resurgence in price pressures in a country where inflation has been notoriously volatile.

With Agency Inputs


First Published: Monday, September 14, 2015, 12:16


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