Week-on-week: SPI edges down 0.01%

During the week, average prices of 13 items rose in a selected basket of goods


Our Correspondent April 08, 2016

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended April 7 registered a fall of 0.01% for the combined income group from 216.67 points in the previous week to 216.65 in the week under review. Compared to the corresponding week of last year, the SPI for the combined income group rose 3.61%. The SPI for the lowest income group decreased by 0.07% compared to the previous week. The SPI for the group stood at 207.63 points against 207.77 in the previous week, according to provisional figures released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. During the week, average prices of 13 items rose in a selected basket of goods, prices of 10 items fell and rates of remaining 30 goods recorded no change.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, April 9th,  2016.

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