Consumer Price Indices and Inflation Rates-July 2006
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CPI and Inflation Rates
July
2006
Overview
Consumer Price Index (CPI) declined by 1.4 per cent from 202.5 points in June 2006 to 199.5 points in July 2006. Month-on-month overall inflation rate decelerated from 10.9 per cent in June 2006 to 10.1 per cent in July 2006. On the other hand, month-on-month underlying inflation rate which excludes food items from the CPI basket increased from 5.3 per cent to 5.5 per cent.