Islamabad November 11 2022: The SPI for the current week ended on 10th November, 2022 recorded an increase of 0.74%.
Major increase is observed in the prices of food items, Onions (27.16%), Potatoes (5.31%), Tea Lipton (4.62%), Bananas (4.38%), Sugar (3.60%), Eggs (2.13%), Chicken (1.98%), non-food items, Long Cloth 57″ (1.21%) and Firewood (1.21%).
On the other hand major decrease is observed in the prices of Tomatoes (6.37%), Pulse Gram (2.02%), Pulse Masoor (1.50%), Pulse Moong (0.90%), Cooking Oil 5 litre (0.89%), Gur (0.72%), Vegetable Ghee 1 Kg (0.63%), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 Kg (0.56%), Wheat flour (0.30%), LPG (0.26%) and Garlic (0.24%).
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 22 (43.14%) items increased, 14 (24.45%) items decreased and 15 (29.41%) items remained stable.
The year on year trend depicts an increase of 29.24%, Onions (292.30%), Diesel (64.57%), Pulse Gram (59.69%), Pulse Moong (54.66%), Petrol (53.85%), Gents Sponge Chappal (52.21%), Bananas (52.18%), Tea Lipton (50.39%), Washing Soap (50.37%), Pulse Mash (49.58%), Cooking Oil 5 litre (46.71%), Vegetable Ghee 2.5 Kg (46.02%) and Salt Powdered & Pulse Masoor (45.03%), while decrease observed in the prices of Chillies Powder (41.85%), Sugar (8.90%), Gur (6.87%), Electricity for Q1 (2.67%) and LPG (0.25%).
