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Friday, April 18, 2008

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Inflation Update

April 17, 2008

Weekly y-o-y WPI inflation decreased to 7.14% for the week ended April 5, 2008 compared to previous week’s level of 7.41%. The WPI index rose 0.6 points to 226.6 from 226.0 in the previous week.

Weight in the Index

Index in previous week

Index in week ended Apr 5 2008

Increase

Contribution to inflation

WPI index

100.00%

226

226.6

0.27%

Primary articles

22.03%

235.1

236

0.38%

0.08%

Food

15.40%

227.2

228.5

0.57%

0.09%

Non-food

6.14%

226.6

226.4

-0.09%

-0.01%

Minerals

0.48%

595.8

595.8

0.00%

0.00%

Fuel

14.23%

341.4

342

0.18%

0.03%

Manufacturing

63.75%

197.1

197.6

0.25%

0.16%

Food products

11.54%

203

203.1

0.05%

0.01%

Basic Metal alloys & metal products

8.34%

290.8

293.5

0.93%

0.08%

Machine Tools

8.36%

168.2

168.9

0.42%

0.03%

Total

0.27%

Source : Bloomberg

Week-on-week increase in inflation index

0.27%

Base effect

-0.56%

Rounding off impact

0.02%

Increase in Yoy inflation

-0.27%

Source : Bloomberg
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