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India's Wholesale Inflation Rises to 0.52% in August after Two Months Negative
The Business Guardian
|September 16, 2025
India’swholesale inflationbased on All India Wholesale Price Index (WPI) number in August is reported at 0.52 per cent (provisional), official data showed Monday.

The wholesale inflation turned positive in August after remaining in the negative in the past two months, largely in line with a marginal jump in retail inflation.A little wholesale inflationis considered by many economists as healthy as it pushes businesses to manufacture or produce more.Ministry of Commerce and Industry has attributed the positive rate ofwholesale inflationin August primarily to increase in prices of food products, other manufacturing, nonfood articles, other nonmetallic mineral products and other transport equipment ete‘The government releases index number of wholesale price in India on monthly basis on 14th of every month (or next working day, if 14th falls on holiday) with
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