Lowest since Jan ’21: Sept CPI inflation drops to 6.9pc YoY ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation decreased to 6.9 per cent on year-on-year basis in... Published 02 Oct, 2024 06:19am
Business & Finance First single-digit stat in nearly 3 years: Annual inflation slows to 9.6pc KARACHI: Country’s annual consumer price inflation rate slowed to 9.6% in August, the first single-digit reading ... Published 03 Sep, 2024 06:27am
Opinion Inflation decline and no feel-good factor The July inflation data was released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on the 1 of August, showing a ... Published 12 Aug, 2024 06:36am
BR Research WPI bottomed out – what is next? The single-digit Wholesale Price Index (WPI) expectedly lasted only a month, as June 2024 saw the WPI at 10.6... Published 04 Jul, 2024 08:36am
BR Research WPI bottoming out? The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) at 9.9 percent for May 2024 is the first single digit reading in 40 months. The WPI... Published 05 Jun, 2024 06:43am
BR Research Energy prices take charge of WPI The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) at 13.9 percent for April 2024 was at a 39-month low. It should spell good news for... Published 07 May, 2024 09:30am
BR Research WPI: Much more than it shows While the last two years have piled on a misery of historic proportions on retail prices, the seeds were sown a year... Published 03 Apr, 2024 09:18am
Business & Finance Expert throws light on recent inflation trends LAHORE: Pakistan has witnessed a gradual decline in inflation for the third consecutive month, marking its lowest... Published 03 Apr, 2024 05:29am
BR Research WPI: Gas and power at the core The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for February 2024 clocked in at 18.66 percent – at a 31-month low, and surely comes... Published 11 Mar, 2024 08:31am
Print Dec CPI inflation jumps 29.7pc YoY ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation increased to 29.7 percent on a year-on-year basis in... Updated 02 Jan, 2024 09:54am
BR Research Core inflation takes centrestage National headline inflation expectedly cooled off from last month – clocking in at 26.89 percent year-on-year,... Published 02 Nov, 2023 09:28am
BR Research WPI: Non-food prices take over The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) registered another month-on-month increase – for the fourth month running – clocking... Published 05 Oct, 2023 08:59am
Business & Finance Sept CPI rises 4 percentage points to 31.4pc MoM ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 4 percentage points in September to 31.4 percent against the... Published 03 Oct, 2023 06:02am
BR Research Inflation 1, construction 0 The trajectory of cement prices amid lacklustre demand is hard to ignore. Latest numbers from Pakistan Bureau of... Published 25 Sep, 2023 08:59am
BR Research WPI – refusing to budge Such are the times that a 24 percent year-on-year increase in wholesale price index (WPI) is being viewed as a... Published 06 Sep, 2023 07:30am
Business & Finance Aug CPI inflation soars 27.4pc YoY ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based inflation increased to 27.4 percent on a year-on-year basis in ... Published 02 Sep, 2023 06:30am
BR Research Wholesale price hike: Far from over If petroleum does not do it, electricity will. That has been the story of wholesale prices for a while as WPI index... Published 04 Aug, 2023 08:25am
Business & Finance July CPI inflation rises 28.3pc YoY ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation increased to 28.3 per cent on a year-on-year basis in July... Published 02 Aug, 2023 06:47am
Business & Finance June CPI inflation rises to 29.4pc YoY ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation increased to 29.4 percent on a year-on-year basis in June... Published 04 Jul, 2023 05:07am
Opinion FY23: Uncovering drivers of economic performance The National Account numbers for FY2023 have been published and, unfortunately, they paint a truly dismal picture of... Published 30 May, 2023 03:37am
Business & Finance Food pushes inflation to record 36.4pc in April ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based inflation increased to 36.4 per cent on a year-on-year basis in ... Published 03 May, 2023 06:35am
Business & Finance India’s March wholesale inflation eases to 30-month low on easing input prices NEW DELHI: India’s annual wholesale-price based inflation (WPI) eased to the lowest in nearly 30 months, as input... Published 17 Apr, 2023 01:31pm
BR Research WPI signalling more retail inflation The record high CPI reading in March 2023 was a foregone conclusion back in August and September 2022 – when the... Published 14 Apr, 2023 08:55am
BR Research Inflation: Wheels are coming off Just when you think you have reached the peak – another one stares in your eyes. Pakistan’s headline national CPI... Published 02 Mar, 2023 08:55am
Business & Finance Feb CPI jumps 31.5pc, highest rate in nearly 50 years ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation increased to 31.5 percent on a year-on-year basis in... Published 02 Mar, 2023 06:23am
Print Jan food prices rise 43pc YoY CPI-based inflation hits 48-year high Updated 02 Feb, 2023 09:10am
BR Research Wholesale prices ease off a high base The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) expectedly came down for the third straight month –recorded at 28 percent for... Updated 06 Dec, 2022 10:09am
Opinion Inflation: the fault is in ourselves Inflation has reached politically untenable levels in the ongoing year, considerably higher than the high rates... Published 05 Dec, 2022 06:09am
Print Nov CPI inflation jumps 23.8pc YoY ISLAMABAD: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation increased to 23.8 percent on a year-on-year basis in... Published 02 Dec, 2022 06:41am
BR Research WPI peaked – CPI maybe not! The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) was seen peaking in August 2022, as highlighted in the space earlier. At 32.6 ... Published 08 Nov, 2022 08:58am
