The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week endedDecember 8, recorded no change on average.
However, an increase was observed in the prices of food items includingonions (8.74 percent), bananas (2.36 percent), rice basmati broken (2.22percent), eggs (1.98 percent), sugar (1.17 percent) and non-food item LPG(2.47 percent), says the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).
The year-on-year (YoY) trend depicts an increase of 30.66 percent mainlydue to an increase in prices of onions (422.57 percent), diesel (64.57percent, tea lipton (62.61 percent), salt powdered (57.35 percent), eggs(55.28 percent), petrol (53.85 percent), gents sponge chappal (52.21percent, bananas (50.58 percent), tomatoes (49.04 percent), pulse gram(48.06 percent), pulse moong (45.44 percent), mustard oil (42.96 percent)and pulse mash (39.98 percent), while the decrease is observed in theprices of chillies powdered (40.90 percent), gur (4.76 percent) andelectricity for q1 (2.67 percent).
The SPI for the week under review in the above-mentioned group was recordedat 218.52 points against 218.51 points registered in the previous week,according to the latest PBS data released on Friday.
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During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 24 (47.06 percent) itemsincreased, 08 (15.69 percent) items decreased and 19 (37.25 percent) itemsremained stable.