Inflation

Indian Inflation drops by 50 percent in 4 months

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Inflation almost halved to 6.61 per cent for the week ended December 13 from the peak of 12.91 four months ago as manufactured goods and some food items turned cheaper. Wholesale prices-based inflation came down for the seventh consecutive week to a nine-month low due to the cascading effect of cuts in fuel prices, providing more space to the RBI for further cuts in key policy rates.

India Inflation rises to 11.42 percent due to food and oil prices

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The unabated hike in food and oil prices has accelerated this week’s inflation from 11.05 per cent to 11.42 per cent, which is again a 13-year high. The rise has been mainly on account of higher prices of food items like tea, milk and cereals.

While food articles and textiles were up 0.7 per cent, primary articles rose by 0.2 per cent, and fuel, power and energy were up by 0.1 per cent. A steep rise of 3.6 per cent was recorded in minerals, while tea was up by 3 per cent. Non-food articles, however, were down by 0.5 per cent.

India Inflation rises to 8.75 Percent

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Indian Economy is headed for a slow down. The inflation data published today shows that it has soared to a seven year high of 8.75 per cent for the week ended May 31 compared to a 8.24 percent in the previous week. Rising food and vegetable prices including cereals, milk, spices and manufactured goods have contributed to 0.51 percent increase.

Indian government leaves inflation control to the Rain God

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8.75 per cent .. thats the highest inflation ever touched by the indian economy in the past 7 years. Instead of finding ways to fix this governments seems to be leaving the job to the Rain gods and other natural events.

While Montek Singh Ahluwalia agreed that inflation is on the rise and that it has turned into a major challenge for the government, he expressed hope that a good monsoon will help control the prices of commodities that are out of control.

Indian Oil PSU's continue to bleed as politicians defer their decision on Price Hike

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Oil Public Sector Units of India continue to bleed and be in a precarious situation as government defers its decision to raise prices of petrol, diesel and domestic LPG atleast until next week. The UPA government is fearful of the negative political impact of a raise in Oil and other prices considering the inflation of india continues to rise inspite of subsidized oil.

Inflation at a 7.83% for week ended May 3

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New Delhi, May 16 (ANI): The annual inflation rose to 7.83 percent for the week ended May 3 from 7.61 percent for the previous week. The data for the week ended March 8 has been revised to 7.78 percent versus 5.92 percent (provisional).
The food articles index and the manufacturing products index rose by 0.5 percent and 0.3 percent respectively. Fuel and power index was up by 0.8 percent.

Adaptive Expectations

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Adaptive expectations is a theory about the way individuals decide how to make investment decisions. According to the theory of adaptive expectations, individuals use recent trends to predict the future and base investment decisions on those predictions.

So for example, if inflation has been running at roughly 3% per year, investors would assume that inflation would run at roughly 3% per year in the near future and would use that figure when making calculations.

Inflation

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Inflation is a rise in the general level of prices over time. It may also refer to a rise in the prices of a specific set of goods or services. Inflation is measured by calculating the percentage rate of change of a price index, which is called the inflation rate.

Bank depositors to earn negative interest if inflation stays

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Mumbai, May 9 (PTI) Bank depositors, who have locked in money for tenure of less than one year, could be the major losers and earn negative interest rate on their fixed deposits if high inflation persists over a longer time.
A study of interest rates, offered by different public sector banks, revealed that all of them are currently offering six per cent to 7.50 per cent interest on deposits for duration of six months to one year. Whereas, inflation has spiralled to 7.61 per cent as of April 26.

Inflation rises to 42-months high at 7.61 per cent

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Despite several measures taken by the Government to control inflation, it rose to 42-month high at 7.61 per cent this week as against 7.57 per cent in the previous week.

Indian Inflation inches upto 7.57%

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An increase in the Wholesale Price Index due to rise in primary articles and manufactured goods drove India's inflation for April was reported at a 42 month high of 7.57%.

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