Islamabad July 5 2024: Pakistan household item prices measured by the SPI for the current week ended on July 04, 2024 increased by 1.28% as new finance act came into effect.
Major increase is observed in the prices of Tomatoes (70.77%), Wheat Flour (10.57%), Powdered Milk (8.90%), Diesel (3.58%), Petrol (2.88%), Pulse Gram (2.87%), Pulse Moong (2.86%), Chicken (2.40%), LPG (1.63%), Garlic (1.54%), Pulse Masoor (1.10%) and Sugar (0.93%).
On the other hand, decrease is observed in the prices of Onions (9.05%), Potatoes (1.04%), Eggs (0.79%), Bananas (0.60%) and Bread (0.02%).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 29 (56.86%) items increased, 05 (9.80%) items decreased and 17 (33.34%) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts increase of 23.59%, Gas Charges for Q1 (570.00%), Tomatoes (161.12%), Onions (79.04%), Chilies Powder (55.00%), Garlic (36.13%), Pulse Gram (32.45%), Salt Powder (29.54%), Shirting (27.08%), Pulse Moong (26.40%), Powered Milk (25.78%), Gents Sandal (25.01%), Pulse Mash (22.21%), Beef (21.95%), Electricity Charges for Q1 (21.46%) and LPG (21.15%) while decrease is observed in the prices of Wheat Flour (28.25%), Chicken (28.23%), Cooking Oil 5 Litre (15.17%), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 Kg (12.54%), Vegetable Ghee 1 Kg (11.49%), Mustard Oil (8.31%), Bananas (4.52%), Tea Lipton (2.52%) and Rice Basmati Broken (1.35%)
