Week-on-week: SPI rises 0.29%

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended May 28 registered an increase of 0.29% over the previous week for the lowest income group. The SPI for the group stood at 203.98 points against 203.39 points in the previous week, according to provisional figures released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The SPI for the combined income group rose 0.38% from 211.62 points in the previous week to 212.42 in the week under review. Compared to the corresponding week of last year, the SPI for the combined income group rose 0.69%. During the week, average prices of 10 items fell in a selected basket of goods, prices of 15 items rose and rates of remaining 28 goods recorded no change.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 30^th,  2015.

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