The country’s retail inflation slightly eased in August to 6.69 per cent as food prices fell, but remained above the upper limit of the RBI tolerance band of 6 per cent for the fifth straight mo...

There is unlikely to be any good news on the inflation front with prices rising above the Reserve Bank of India’s medium term target in August, a Reuters poll has showed. The poll of nearly 50 ...

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has cut the value added tax on diesel to 16.75 per cent from 30 per cent, leading to a price drop of over Rs 8.36 per litre in the capital. This has raised hopes t...

The Cassandras are having a field day. Anyone can rummage through a slag heap of gloomy macroeconomic numbers and build a seemingly irrefutable argument that the Indian economy is going through a wrin...

Retail inflation rose significantly to over three-year high of 5.54 per cent in November, mainly on account of higher food prices.The inflation based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 4.62 per cent in...

Retail inflation dropped to a four-month low of 5.91 per cent in March, mainly because of a fall in the prices of food items, especially vegetables. However, it remained above the mid-point of the RBI...

Retail inflation rose to a four-month high of 2.57 per cent in February, driven by higher food prices, but remained lower than the RBI’s expectations, giving hope the central bank could cut the key ...

The latest rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India did raise eyebrows — not everybody expected it to occur at this juncture. Ever since it has happened, the market made no bones about how surprised it...

Retail inflation in October jumped to a 16-month high of 4.62 per cent, breaching the RBI’s medium target of 4 per cent inflation, triggering the need for an immediate rate cut by the apex bank in i...

Retail price based consumer inflation spiked to 16-month high of 4.62 per cent in October on costlier food items, reducing the headroom for a rate cut by the RBI in its monetary policy due next month....