KARACHI:
Regardless of the continued month of Ramazan, a interval when costs usually rise because of elevated demand for fruits, greens and different objects, the Delicate Worth Indicator (SPI) for the week ended March 13, 2025 recorded a 1.97% year-on-year (YoY) decline. This marks the bottom annual inflation price in current occasions.
Nevertheless, on a week-on-week (WoW) foundation, the SPI noticed a 0.22% enhance, reflecting rising costs of important commodities.
Kitchen objects reminiscent of tomatoes, hen and sugar registered a pointy worth hike whereas onions, potatoes and eggs grew to become notably cheaper. Knowledge signifies continued worth fluctuations, impacting family budgets throughout the nation.
“The SPI for the week ended March 13, 2025 recorded a lower of 1.97% YoY, the bottom because the knowledge was out there,” Arif Habib Restricted (AHL) reported.
The SPI recorded a 0.22% enhance when put next with the earlier week. Essentially the most notable worth hikes have been noticed in tomatoes (36.43%), hen (6.40%), bananas (6.05%), sugar (5.69%), LPG (1.44%), georgette and gur (1.32% every), bread (1.13%), beef (0.57%), pulse moong (0.28%) and cigarettes (0.27%).
Conversely, the biggest declines have been recorded in onions (-16.71%), potatoes (-6.59%), garlic (-5.29%), pulse gram (-1.91%), eggs (-1.55%), Lipton tea (-1.13%), pulse mash (-0.49%) and ready tea (-0.39%).
Out of 51 important objects, the costs of 12 objects (23.53%) elevated, 15 objects (29.41%) decreased and 24 objects (47.06%) remained unchanged throughout the week underneath overview.
On a YoY foundation, essentially the most important worth reductions have been seen in onions (-72.32%), tomatoes (-51.96%), wheat flour (-36.20%), chilli powder (-20%), Q1 electrical energy fees (-18.92%), Lipton tea (-15.89%), pulse mash (-14.98%), pulse masoor (-12.38%), diesel (-9.91%), petrol (-8.55%) and LPG (-5.35%).
Nevertheless, a number of commodities registered substantial YoY will increase, together with girls’ sandals (75.09%), pulse moong (26.84%), powdered milk (25.93%), beef (21.35%), pulse gram (19.42%), hen (18.72%), sugar (18.55%), 1kg vegetable ghee (16.13%), 2.5kg vegetable ghee (15.34%), shirting (12.98%), georgette (11.21%) and firewood (11.07%).
The info displays continued volatility in important commodity costs, with notable fluctuations in meals objects, gas and family requirements. AHL knowledge highlights a big disinflationary development since October 2024, when the YoY SPI stood above 14%. Over the previous months, inflationary pressures have constantly eased, bringing the SPI into unfavorable territory by early 2025.