India's main inflation gauge, the wholesale price index (WPI), almost rose close to the fastest pace this year at 7.55% for the month of May 2012, versus the previous month’s figure of 7.23% and previous year’s corresponding month’s figure of 9.56%, which is little lower than the consensus view of 7.60%. Build up inflation in the financial year so far was 1.80% compared to a buildup of 1.94% in the corresponding period of the previous year. Meanwhile, March month’s inflation figure was revised sharply from 6.89% to 7.69%.
The index for primary articles group, which has a weightage of 20.12% in overall WPI, rose by 0.1% to 216.1 from 215.9 for the previous month. The index for fuel and power group with a weightage of 14.91% in WPI rose by 1.0% to 178.9 from 177.1 for the previous month. The index of Manufactured Products group (weight 64.97% of WPI) rose by 0.5% to 144.3 from 143.6 for the previous month.
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