SPI rises after nine weeks of decline
ISLAMABAD: Short-term inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), rebounded and rose by 1.29 per cent year-on-year in the week ending May 15, owing to a rise in the prices of sugar and meat in the retail market.
The SPI-based inflation rate had fallen for nine consecutive weeks, but an extraordinary spike in sugar and meat prices reversed the trend........
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