Wednesday 7 September 2011

Weekly inflation up by 0.9pct

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), for the lowest income group up to Rs.3, 000 has registered an increase of 0.9 percent for the week ended on August 30 over the previous week.


The SPI for the lowest income group earning was recorded at 314.44 points as against of 311.65 points, according to the latest data of Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS).


The SPI for the combined group registered a gain of 0.9 percent as it went up from 304.83 points in the previous week to 307.58 points in the week under review. As compared to the corresponding week of last year, the SPI for the combined group in the week under review witnessed increase of 16.33 percent over the corresponding period last year.



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