India's August wholesale prices rise 0.52% y/y

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September 15, 2025 2:39 AM EDT

FILE PHOTO: Vendors selling vegetables wait for customers in a wholesale market in the old quarters of Delhi, India, August 7, 2025. REUTERS/Bhawika Chhabra/File Photo

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's wholesale prices in August rose 0.52% year-on-year, reversing a 0.58% decline in the previous month, government data showed on Monday.

Economists polled by Reuters had projected the wholesale price index to rise 0.3% year-on-year in August.

KEY NUMBERS

* Wholesale food prices in August rose 0.21%, compared with a 2.15% year-on-year decline in the prior month.

* Vegetable prices in August declined 14.18%, compared with a slump of 28.96% year-on-year in July.

* Prices of manufactured products rose 2.55% year-on-year, as against an increase of 2.05% recorded in July.

* Fuel and power prices declined 3.17% year-on-year, compared with a 2.43% drop in the month-ago period.

(Reporting by Nikunj Ohri; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)


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