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Finance Minister Hopes for Further Moderation in Food Inflation in Coming Weeks
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....inance Minister Hopes for Further Moderation in Food Inflation in Coming Weeks <br>News and Press Release<br>Dated:- 12-5-2011<br><BR>Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Finance 12-May-2011 Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee said while the current trend in food inflation is welcome and we hope to see further moderation in food inflation in the coming weeks. He sa....
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....id that however, there are concerns on the price momentum in non-food articles. Shri Mukherjee said that sustained high non-food primary prices are creating cost-push inflationary conditions in the manufacturing sector. Thus, even though food inflation is declining, the concern on higher core inflation remains, the Minister added. Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee said that the recent m....
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....onetary policy announcements should help in addressing these concerns. Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee said that the provisional Whole Sale Price Index data for Primary Articles and Fuel and Power for the week ending April 30, 2011 has been released. He said that the year-on-year inflation in food articles was 7.70 per cent. Shri Mukherjee said that it has declined near continuously ....
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....in the month of April 2011 over the same month last year, the decline being sharper in the second half of the month. He said that the inflation in fuel and power has also moderated to 12.25 per cent in this week. Shri Mukherjee said that, however, non-food articles continue to exhibit high inflation in the range of 25 to 28 per cent over the past many weeks. He said that this has made the overall ....
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....inflation in primary articles sticky and it remains in double digits at 11.96 per cent for the week ending April 30, 2011. DSM/BY/GN (Release ID :72104)<BR> News - Press release - PIB....