ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Index-based weekly inflation decreased by 0.64 percent for the current week ended December 4, as prices of essential food items finally showed a declining trend.
According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, a major decrease was observed in the prices of tomatoes (30.11percent), onions (12.41percent), potatoes (6.92percent), chicken (4.46percent), sugar (3.31percent), diesel (1.67percent), pulse gram (1.55percent), pulse masoor (1.33percent), gur (1.00percent), and petrol (0.73percent).
On the other hand, major increase was noted in the prices of LPG (3.50percent), garlic (1.86percent), cooking oil 5 litre (1.54percent), eggs (0.81percent), bread (0.57percent), vegetable ghee 1 kg (0.40percent), powdered milk (0.36percent), bananas and wheat flour (0.28percent) each, and cigarettes (0.25percent).
Weekly SPI inflation up 0.73pc
Of the 51 items, the prices of 13 items (25.49percent) increased, 15 items (29.41percent) decreased, and 23 items (45.10percent) remained stable. On a year-on-year basis, a 4.00 percent increase was noted in the prices of these items.
A major increase is observed in the prices of sugar (37.49percent), gas charges for Q1 (29.85percent), wheat flour (17.50percent), gur (15.06percent), beef (13.47percent), firewood (12.59percent), bananas (11.06percent), powdered milk (9.03percent), diesel (8.42percent), lawn printed (8.29percent), cooking oil 5 litre (8.19percent), and vegetable ghee 2.5 kg (7.59percent).
A decline was observed in the prices of potatoes (40.47percent), garlic (38.51percent), tomatoes (31.51percent), onions (29.87percent), pulse gram (29.54percent), Lipton Tea (17.79percent), pulse mash (13.82percent), electricity charges for Q1 (8.40percent), and salt powder (5.13percent).
During the outgoing week, for households spending up to Rs17,732 per month, the SPI-based inflation decreased by 0.96 percent, to 327.70 from 330.88 points.
For the Rs17,732-22,888 bracket, the SPI-based inflation is down by 0.88 percent to 327.17, from 330.06 points of the previous week. Those in the Rs22,889-29,517 expenditure group saw a 0.73 percent decrease to 348.77 from 351.33 points. For the Rs29,518 to 44,175 bracket, the SPI registered a decrease of 0.69 percent, reaching 335.44 compared to 335.81 points previously.
For households with monthly expenditures above Rs 44,175, the SPI recorded 0.53 percent decline to 334.03 from 335.81 points. Whereas the combined expenditure SPI went down by 0.64 percent to 335.84 points compared to 337.99 points in the previous week.
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