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The government is planning to update the base year of the Consumer Price Index to 2024 from 2012 at present, and that of other macro-indicators such as the GDP, IIP and WPI to 2022-23, official ...
The new CPI series with an updated base year is slated to come into effect in February 2026, along with a new series for other macro indicators like GDP and IIP ...
Inflation cooled in March, but economists expect prices to reaccelerate as some of President Trump's tariffs kick in.
Compared with February 2025, consumer prices rose by 0.3% in March 2025. The consumer price index is regularly revised and adapted to a new base year. With the results for the reference month January ...
CPI inflation came in 0.1% below expectations at 2.6% in March – down from 2.8% in February and 3% in January. On a monthly ...
Unlike in the past, where the base year was 2009, the base year for the rebased CPI is 2024. 'Meaning, the NBS is comparing prices in 2025 with prices in 2024 instead of 2009. Also, the CPI ...
Households and Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria continue to grapple with rising living costs, ...
U.S. consumer prices likely increased marginally in March, but inflation risks are tilted to the upside after President ...
and subsidies. The derived CPI answers the question of how would prices have changed if the tax rates had remained the same as in the base year.
Core CPI had the smallest year-over-year increase since March 2021. Inflation cooled more than expected in March despite President Donald Trump's warnings that he would impose more tariffs.
U.S. consumer prices unexpectedly fell in March amid cheaper gasoline and used motor vehicles, but the improvement in ...
Both the overall and core CPI measures rose by a modest 0.1 percent for March, bringing the 12-month trend rates down to 2.4 ...