Inflation in India drops to 4.89% in Apr to over 3-yr low

Food security has become a major ordeal with the rising international food inflation. Industrialised countries are increasingly meeting their food requirements from outside their own geographical...

The Core Inflation, which is inflation in non-food manufactured products, eased to 2.77 percent in April-13. This goes to higlight the demand-constraining effect of high interest rates on the core manufacting products. As a result, while RBI ...

- Consumer price inflation in the U.S. declined for the second consecutive month in April, while prices excluding food and energy costs inched up modestly, official data showed on Thursday. In a report, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said that ...

Softening food prices pulled down inflation to over three year low of 4.89% in April, giving RBI space to further ease interest rates.

-- U.S. producer prices fell by the largest amount in three years in April as gasoline and food costs plunged, according to the Labor Department. The government said its seasonally adjusted producer price index fell 0.7% last month, the biggest ...

Chinas consumer price inflation climbed to 2.4 per cent in April, pushed by rising food prices, the government said on Thursday.The rise after a drop in inflation in March was influence...

Low-cost eateries Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa opened in Chennai in February are turning out to be a foil to food inflation.

Monetary tightening reduces growth more than inflation when the latter is driven primarily by food prices and supply-side factors.

Inflation would subside in the current financial year due to slowing real wage growth in rural areas and moderation in food prices, experts have said. Wholesale price index based inflation fell further to 4.89% in April from 5.96% in March, the first time it ...