Just In: July inflation drops to 6.87%; beats expectation

14 Aug 2012 Evaluate

India's main inflation gauge, the wholesale price index (WPI), came surprisingly way below the expectation at 6.87% (provisional) for the month of July, 2012 (over July, 2011) as compared to 7.25% (provisional) for the previous month and 9.36% during the corresponding month of the previous year. Build up inflation in the financial year so far was 2.36% compared to a build-up of 3.14% in the corresponding period of the previous year.

The street was largely estimating July month’s inflation to be higher at 7.4%. Meanwhile, the final index and inflation based on final WPI for ‘All Commodities’ (Base: 2004-05=100) for the month of May remained unchanged at its provisional level of 163.9 and 7.55% respectively.

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