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WPI

Inflation soaring

Inflation soaring

Updated 03 Sep, 2026 06:29am
EDITORIAL: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) calculated the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for August at 11.1...
Inflation cools, risks remain

Inflation cools, risks remain

Updated 04 Aug, 2026 04:37am
Headline inflation is back in single digits after crossing 10 percent in all three months of the previous quarter....
Inflation: The Core heats up

Inflation: The Core heats up

Updated 02 Jun, 2026 07:07am
Headline CPI inflation rose11.66 percent year-on-year in May, the highest in 24 months. Headline inflation stayed...
Inflation – too early to celebrate

Inflation – too early to celebrate

Updated 02 Sep, 2025 08:19am
The headline inflation is surprisingly down to 3 percent in August 2025 as against the street view of 4 percent. On ...
WPI bottomed out – what is next?

WPI bottomed out – what is next?

Published 04 Jul, 2024 08:36am
The single-digit Wholesale Price Index (WPI) expectedly lasted only a month, as June 2024 saw the WPI at 10.6...
WPI bottoming out?

WPI bottoming out?

Published 05 Jun, 2024 06:43am
The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) at 9.9 percent for May 2024 is the first single digit reading in 40 months. The WPI...
Energy prices take charge of WPI

Energy prices take charge of WPI

Published 07 May, 2024 09:30am
The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) at 13.9 percent for April 2024 was at a 39-month low. It should spell good news for...
WPI: Much more than it shows

WPI: Much more than it shows

Published 03 Apr, 2024 09:18am
While the last two years have piled on a misery of historic proportions on retail prices, the seeds were sown a year...
WPI: Gas and power at the core

WPI: Gas and power at the core

Published 11 Mar, 2024 08:31am
The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for February 2024 clocked in at 18.66 percent – at a 31-month low, and surely comes...
Dec CPI inflation jumps 29.7pc YoY

Dec CPI inflation jumps 29.7pc YoY

Updated 02 Jan, 2024 09:54am
ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation increased to 29.7 percent on a year-on-year basis in...
Core inflation takes centrestage

Core inflation takes centrestage

Published 02 Nov, 2023 09:28am
National headline inflation expectedly cooled off from last month – clocking in at 26.89 percent year-on-year,...
WPI: Non-food prices take over

WPI: Non-food prices take over

Published 05 Oct, 2023 08:59am
The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) registered another month-on-month increase – for the fourth month running – clocking...
Inflation 1, construction 0

Inflation 1, construction 0

Published 25 Sep, 2023 08:59am
The trajectory of cement prices amid lacklustre demand is hard to ignore. Latest numbers from Pakistan Bureau of...
WPI – refusing to budge

WPI – refusing to budge

Published 06 Sep, 2023 07:30am
Such are the times that a 24 percent year-on-year increase in wholesale price index (WPI) is being viewed as a...
Aug CPI inflation soars 27.4pc YoY

Aug CPI inflation soars 27.4pc YoY

Published 02 Sep, 2023 06:30am
ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based inflation increased to 27.4 percent on a year-on-year basis in ...
Wholesale price hike: Far from over

Wholesale price hike: Far from over

Published 04 Aug, 2023 08:25am
If petroleum does not do it, electricity will. That has been the story of wholesale prices for a while as WPI index...
July CPI inflation rises 28.3pc YoY

July CPI inflation rises 28.3pc YoY

Published 02 Aug, 2023 06:47am
ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation increased to 28.3 per cent on a year-on-year basis in July...
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