{"id":20164,"date":"2025-06-03T04:32:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T04:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=20164"},"modified":"2025-06-03T04:32:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T04:32:40","slug":"weekly-inflation-dips-0-81-as-food-utility-prices-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=20164","title":{"rendered":"Weekly inflation dips 0.81% as food, utility prices ease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>Electricity, chicken prices pull inflation down on weekly basis<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/profit.pakistantoday.com.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/inflation-696x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"inflation\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s short-term inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), fell by 0.81% for the week ending May 29, 2025, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics reported on Friday. On a year-on-year basis, SPI edged up 0.41%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prices declined for 10 items including electricity charges (-10.1%), chicken (-8.5%), LPG (-2.7%), and sugar (-0.25%). However, prices of 14 items rose, led by tomatoes (+4.5%), potatoes (+2.9%), and eggs (+2.2%). The remaining 27 items remained stable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lowest income group saw a weekly decrease of 0.67% in SPI, while the highest income group saw a 0.74% decline. Annually, the impact ranged from a 0.22% decrease for the lowest group to a 1.50% rise for the highest earners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among key commodities, Sona urea averaged Rs4,467 per 50kg bag, down 0.09% from last week, while cement averaged Rs1,417 per 50kg, a marginal weekly dip but 14.6% costlier year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SPI tracks prices of 51 essential items across 17 cities on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/profit.pakistantoday.com.pk\/2025\/05\/30\/weekly-inflation-dips-0-81-as-food-utility-prices-ease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/profit.pakistantoday.com.pk\/2025\/05\/30\/weekly-inflation-dips-0-81-as-food-utility-prices-ease\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity, chicken prices pull inflation down on weekly basis Pakistan\u2019s short-term inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), fell by 0.81% for the week ending May 29, 2025, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics reported on Friday. On a year-on-year basis, SPI edged up 0.41%. Prices declined for 10 items including electricity charges (-10.1%), chicken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[10082,19651,19652,132,19653,105,200,19654,36,3628,19655,19656],"class_list":["post-20164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-consumers","tag-cost-of-living","tag-daily-used-commodities","tag-economy","tag-food-price","tag-geopolitics-2","tag-inflation","tag-inflation-dips","tag-pakistan","tag-relief-to-public","tag-weekly-inflation-dips-0-81-as-food","tag-utility-prices-ease"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20166,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20164\/revisions\/20166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}