inflation
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High inflation to persist this year | The Express Tribune
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[ad_1] BENGALURU: Persistently high inflation will haunt the world economy this year, according to a Reuters’ poll of economists who trimmed their global growth outlook on worries of slowing demand and the risk interest rates would rise faster than assumed so far. This represents a sea change from just three months ago, when most economists…
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Ministry sees further hike in inflation | The Express Tribune
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[ad_1] ISLAMABAD: The government said on Thursday that the inflation rate might further accelerate this month while Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin proposed to give fuel cards to motorcyclists and relax the taxable income threshold to bail out the inflation-stricken salaried class. The Ministry of Finance released its Monthly Economic Outlook report for January 2022 but…
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Weekly inflation surges to its highest since January 2020
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[ad_1] — AFP/File KARACHI: The weekly inflation in Pakistan, based on the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), for the week that ended on December 23, registered an increase of 19.83% (year-on-year) for the combined income group. Topline Securities noted that the year-on-year increase was the highest since January 2020. Meanwhile, on a week-on-week basis, the SPI…
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Inflation likely to remain high in Pakistan for next six months: EIU
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[ad_1] — AFP/File Inflation is likely to remain high in Pakistan for the next six months and the rupee is expected to continue on a depreciatory path despite a support package from Saudi Arabia, the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) said. The research and analysis division’s assessment comes after the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported…
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China witnesses highest factory inflation in 25 years
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[ad_1] BEIJING: China’s factory-gate prices rose at the highest rate in at least 25 years in September, official data showed Thursday, hit by the rising cost of coal. The producer price index (PPI), which measures the cost of goods at the factory gate, rose 10.7 percent on-year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. It…
