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Food prices 'slowing pace of disinflation': MPC

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June 22, 2024

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Food prices 'slowing pace of disinflation': MPC

MAJORITY of the six-member monetary policy committee (MPC) members called for caution on dropping guard against inflation fight given sticky food inflation that is slowing pace of disinflation, as per the minutes of the last MPC meetings released by the RBI on Friday.

In May, headline retail inflation eased to the lowest in a year at 4.75%, from 4.83% in April. It is still 75 bps over the median target of the MPC and the central bank.

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