Week-On-Week: SPI falls 0.27%

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended May 5 registered a fall of 0.27% for the combined income group from 214.90 points in the previous week to 214.31 in the week under review. Compared to the corresponding week of last year, the SPI for the combined income group rose 1.48%. The SPI for the lowest income group fell 0.41% compared to the previous week. The SPI for the group stood at 204.58 points against 205.42 in the previous week, according to provisional figures released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. During the week, average prices of 10 items rose in a selected basket of goods, prices of 15 items fell and rates of remaining 28 goods recorded no change.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 7^th, 2016.

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