Pakistan’s inflation jumped to 5.6% in September 2025, up from 3.0% in August, according to the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) report. The increase was driven by faster price hikes in both cities and rural areas, though inflation remains much lower than the double-digit levels seen in 2024. For the first quarter of the current … Read more
KARACHI: The headline inflation based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for February 2023 is likely to settle at 30.5 per cent on a year-on-year (YoY) basis, compared with 27.6 per cent in January 2023 and 12.24 per cent in February 2022, respectively, analysts said on Monday. The analysts at the Arif Habib Limited said … Read more
Inflation in India slowed to 6.73 percent in October but remained stubbornly above 6%. The Reserve Bank of India’s tolerance zone for inflation is between 2% and 6%. This keeps the possibility of the RBI increasing interest rates open. India consumer price inflation slowed to 6.73 percent in October due to weaker food price increases … Read more
High prices have been witnessed according to analysts. The inflation rate is likely to rise up to 16.5 per cent in the coming fiscal year. SBP has increased the policy points to 400 in 2022. KARACHI: The prices of essential items for the week ended June 16, 2022 have witnessed the highest increase in over … Read more
Stocks fell on Friday after the May consumer price index showed hotter-than-expected inflation numbers. Among the stocks that fell were Stitch Fix and DocuSign, which Cramer highlighted as two names that illustrate his warning against investing in former high-flyers. Stocks fell on Friday after the May consumer price index showed hotter-than-expected inflation numbers. Among the … Read more
STOCKHOLM: Inflation in Sweden continued to grow in April after reaching a 30-year high a month ago, according to Statistics Sweden. In April, the number increased to 6.4 percent, up from 6.1 percent in March, when it topped the previous high of December 1991. “(There have been) continued widespread price increases in April, including (for) … Read more
The Federal Reserve’s favorite inflation-associated adjective was once transitory, as in: Inflation is transitory and rate increases should be temporary. That is no longer the case. Inflation fees were growing sharply considering August 2021 and were out of the everyday 2%-to-4% range for a full year. The Consumer Price Index rose eight.Five% for the yr … Read more
According to data released by statistics Estonia, the Estonian consumer price index increased by 18.8% year over year in April. Prices are rising faster than they have ever risen in decades. In April, the agency stated that prices for goods and services were 14.4% and 27.8% higher than they were a year ago. According to … Read more
Inflation can be a cruel, cold wind. It bites hardest those at the bottom of the economic ladder, or on a fixed income — especially when political leaders cut benefits. The wealthiest never knew what they were paying for groceries, still don’t know nor care. All the rest of us need to know about inflation … Read more
WASHINGTON: According to what many Americans already anticipated, prices rose at a record rate last month, following a trend that began in January but was made worse by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There will be a surge in gas prices and other petroleum items in March’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) data from the Labor Department … Read more
BEIJING: Looking into 2022, China has a solid foundation for stable prices, after they remained within an appropriate range throughout 2021, experts said. The moderate increase trend in China’s consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, is expected to continue this year, said Liu Zhicheng with the Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research, a … Read more
KARACHI: Pakistan continues to reel under high inflation. The country’s general inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) clocked-in at a two-year high of 13 per cent in January, as prices of almost all commodities and utilities maintained a rising trend. Experts say the inflation in January 2022 rose 13 per cent on a … Read more
KARACHI: The headline inflation based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) hit two-year high of 13 per cent in January 2022. The CPI inflation general increased by 13 per cent on year-on-year basis in January 2022, as compared to an increase of 12.3 per cent in the previous month and 5.7 per cent in January 2021, … Read more
KARACHI: Since the start of FY21, Pakistan’s economy has started recovering, but the boom in the international commodity prices after the opening up of global economies, amid ample liquidity, brought the country’s external account under pressure. “The economy is now on the path of stabilisation due to painful yet necessary policy measures undertaken by the … Read more
WASHINGTON: The US consumer prices jumped last year at the fastest pace in four decades, the government confirmed on Wednesday, underscoring the potent inflation wave that has sapped public support for President Joe Biden even as the economy recovers from the pandemic. The seven per cent increase in the Labor Department’s consumer price index (CPI) over … Read more
BEIJING: The Chinese capital Beijing is striving to notch a year-on-year GDP growth of over 5 per cent this year, local authorities said on Thursday. The city also aims at maintaining its consumer price index (CPI) increase within 3 per cent, compared with the previous year. The targets were unveiled in the government work report … Read more
KARACHI: The headline or food inflation based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has increased to a 22-month high of 12.3 per cent in December 2021, according to the inflation numbers released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Saturday. The CPI inflation rose 12.3 per cent on a year-on-year basis in December 2021, … Read more
KARACHI: The headline inflation for December 2021 is likely to rise up to 12.3 per cent, despite soft food prices, analysts said on Tuesday. The analysts at Insight Securities said that despite soft food prices, the inflation based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for December 2021 will arrive at 12.3 per cent on a … Read more
Dolmen City REIT (DCR) has been showing signs of recovery after the pandemic phase with the improvement in footfall in recent months. However, the activity has not reached to pre-pandemic levels, as yet. Nonetheless, the REIT has kept its absolute payout unchanged in the last two years, despite concessions offered to tenants, maintaining the stock’s … Read more
Targeting 53,000 points by December 2022, Arsalan Soomro at KASB Securities project earnings growth of 12 per cent and a dividend yield of 6 per cent. Moreover, the index has the potential to re-rate once issues relating to the cash-starved energy chain are appeased. After considerable signs of economic overheating, the government and the central … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday projected higher inflation in Pakistan, compared with other regional countries and revised down the economic growth outlook for developing Asia slightly to 7 per cent this year and 5.3 per cent next year. The ADB revised the projections after renewed outbreaks of the coronavirus (Covid-19) led to … Read more
BEIJING: Consumer inflation in China picked up to its highest level in over a year in November, official data showed on Thursday, bolstered by an uptick in pork prices as seasonal demand spiked. The consumer price index (CPI), a key gauge of retail inflation, came in at 2.3 per cent on-year according to the National Bureau … Read more
WASHINGTON: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Monday she expects the current record-high inflation to ease, with monthly rates falling back to 0.2 per cent or 0.3 per cent in the second half of 2022. “I’m hoping and expecting in the second half of next year, to see monthly CPI (consumer price index) rates coming … Read more
KARACHI: With significant signs of economic recovery, the government would continue to follow the positive reforms momentum to boost the competitiveness of the country’s economy and lay a strong foundation for a more robust, inclusive and sustainable recovery. “Pakistan has shown significant signs of economic recovery with fast resumption of economic dynamism,” according to the … Read more
KARACHI: The headline inflation based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) may remain around 10 per cent Year-on-Year (YoY) in June 2021, analysts said on Tuesday. The analysts at Insight Research estimated the CPI for June 2021 to arrive at 10.2 per cent against 10.8 per cent reported in May 2021. Similarly, urban CPI is … Read more
The National Price Control Committee has taken steps to control inflation, as per the directions of Prime Minister Imran Khan. The Prime Minister will chair the Price Control Committee meeting four times a month to ensure the supply of food items at government rates. It has also been decided to create cheap markets on a … Read more
The Bureau of Statistics released a weekly inflation report according to which Inflation rises to 2.41% in one week. According to the report of the Bureau of Statistics, inflation has increased by 2.41% in one week while the prices of 25 essential items have increased during this period. The report stated that prices of 5 … Read more
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has said that the inflation rate in January fell to 5.65% from 8% in the previous month. The fall in prices of vegetables, pulses, eggs and chicken helped lower the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the bureau said in a statement. The statement said that Urban CPI recorded a decline … Read more
