Tag: Inflation

Inflation slightly moves up to 1.6% in October

  Pakistan’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation in October 2015 clocked in at 1.6 per cent as against 1.3 per cent in September 2015 due...

Price hikes from hell – Ramzan inflation becomes reality

With the advent of Ramzan, prices of fruit, vegetables and daily used commodities went up exponentially with sellers making extra-charges in total disregard of...

Inflation falls to 2.11pc in April: A quick small step down...

Pakistan's annual inflation rate fell to 2.11 per cent in April from 2.49 per cent in March, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.

Capital’s traders suffer Rs 3b losses, decry shortage, inflation

ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI STAFF REPORT   The business community of Rawalpindi and Islamabad has said that it has suffered losses to the tune of Rs 3 billion as a...

Ramazan to push up inflation to 8.2%

The Ramazan effect is likely to be visible in July, 2014’s Consumer Price Index (CPI), particularly the pronounced prices of perishable food items, said...

March inflation inches up to 8.53pc

The country's Mar 2014 inflation, as gauged by Consumer Price Index (CPI), stood at 8.53pc against 7.93pc in Feb 2014 and 6.57pc in Mar...

PTI sit-in against inflation

A sit-in protest by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is scheduled on Sunday (today) at 12pm at Nasir Bagh Lahore. According to reports by private news channels,...

Weekly SPI swells by 0.20 percent

Pakistan Bureau of Statistic revealed that the weekly inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) is increased slightly by 0.20 per cent for...

Inflation jumps to 8.3 percent due to higher food prices

Inflation in Pakistan accelerated sharply in July to more than 8 percent, largely due to higher food prices during Ramadan. Prices rose to 8.3...

Weekly inflation falls by 0.18 percent

The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended on July 19 where the lowest income group up to Rs 8,000 registered decrease of...

Weekly inflation falls by 0.18 percent

The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended on July 19 where the lowest income group up to Rs 8,000 registered decrease of...

Weekly inflation up by 0.55%

    The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended on July 4 for the lowest income group up to Rs 8,000 registered an increase...

Spreading GST impact downs inflation in June

According to Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation during June stood at 5.85 percent which the market analysts said...

Power tariff goes up by Rs1.12 per unit

The inflation-stricken masses received another blow as the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) approved Rs 1.12 per unit hike in electricity tariff on...

Inflation down to nine-year low in May

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation during last month in May dropped to what the analysts said nine-year low of 5.1 percent. This was...

Inflation takes another dip to 5.8 % in April

The inflation number gauged by Consumer Price Index (CPI) in April stood at 5.8 percent compared to 6.57 percent last month. This, analysts said,...

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