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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%
226.4
-0.09%
-0.01%
Minerals
0.48%
595.8
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%
Machine Tools
8.36%
168.2
168.9
0.42%
Total
Source : Bloomberg
Week-on-week increase in inflation index
Base effect
-0.56%
Rounding off impact
0.02%
Increase in Yoy inflation
-0.27%
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