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Wholesale terms ostentation extended upward momentum for the 3rd consecutive month, astatine 1.81% successful January, driven by an uptick successful prices of food, non-food articles, and manufactured items connected a month-on-month basis, authorities information showed connected Monday (February 16, 2026).
Wholesale Price Index (WPI)-based ostentation was 2.51% successful January past year, portion successful the erstwhile period (December 2025), it was 0.83%.
"Positive complaint of ostentation successful January 2026 is chiefly owed to summation successful prices of manufacture of basal metals, different manufacturing, non-food articles, nutrient articles, and textiles, etc," the Industry Ministry said successful a statement.
According to WPI data, ostentation successful nutrient articles was 1.55% successful January arsenic against deflation of 0.43% successful December.
In vegetables, ostentation was 6.78% successful January arsenic against deflation of 3.50% successful December.
In the lawsuit of manufactured products, WPI ostentation inched up to 2.86%, arsenic against 1.82% successful December.
Non-food articles class ostentation spiked to 7.58% successful January, against 2.95% successful December.
Negative inflation, oregon deflation, continued successful the substance and powerfulness sectors, astatine 4.01% successful January, arsenic against 2.31% successful December.
The country's retail ostentation inched up to 2.75% successful January, information released past week showed.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has reduced argumentation involvement rates by 1.25 percent points successful the existent fiscal twelvemonth arsenic ostentation remained low.
The RBI chiefly tracks retail ostentation for deciding connected benchmark involvement rates. Earlier this month, the RBI retained cardinal argumentation involvement rates astatine 5.25%.
