Retail inflation inches up to 7% in August led by food price rise

Retail inflation inches up to 7% in August led by food price rise

India’s retail inflation touched 7% in August, up from 6.71% in July, fuelled by a 7.62% pick-up in food prices paid by consumers, even as industrial production growth in July had dropped to the lowest level since April at just 2.4%, with output levels dropping 2.75% month-on-month.   This is the eighth successive month that retail […]

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