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New Delhi, Feb 15: Thanks to the seasonal softening in the food prices and a sharp drop in fuel costs, India's annual wholesale rate of inflation declined marginally to (-)0.90 percent for January from (-)0.73 percent for the month before,…

Seoul, Feb 15: Money supply in South Korea posted its fastest growth in five years in 2015 due to record low interest rates, central bank data showed on Monday. The country's M2, or broad money, averaged 2,182 trillion won (about $1…

New Delhi, Dec 14: India's retail inflation also firmed up in November to 5.41 percent from 5.0 percent in the month before, as in the case with the wholesale prices, due largely to food items like pulses, official data showed on Monday.…

Mumbai, Dec 7: Heightened prospects of a US rate hike, coupled with slow progress in the Indian Parliament in approving a key economic legislation, subdued Indian equity markets on Monday, leading to a barometer index provisionally closing…

Mumbai, Dec 1: The Indian central bank on Tuesday kept its short-term lending and borrowing rates unchanged, in line with expectations, balancing its policy action between a comforting, 7.4 percent economic growth for the second quarter of…

New Delhi, Nov 16: India's annual rate of inflation, based on wholesale prices, inched up to (-)3.81 percent for October from (-)4.54 percent for the month before, mainly on account of a whopping 86-percent spike in the prices of onions and…

New Delhi, Oct 14: India's annual wholesale inflation for September remained in the negative territory at (-)4.54 percent from (-)4.95 percent for the month before, official data released on Wednesday showed. The annual inflation rate,…

New Delhi, Oct 13: India's retail inflation, based on the consumer price index (CPI), for September increased to 4.41 percent, from 3.74 percent recorded for the previous month, on the back of higher food prices, official data showed on…

Mumbai, Sep 30: A day after a massive easing of key lending rates by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), a barometer of the Indian equity markets provisionally closed with gains of 376 points or 1.46 percent on Wednesday. The Indian equity…