Wholesale Prices (May)

Indian wholesale price inflation climbed to another historic high in May. The rise in food prices in particular suggests that some of the upside risks to the inflation picture we have been flagging are materialising. And in general today’s data support our views that the fall in CPI inflation in May will be temporary and that the RBI will continue to frontload policy tightening.

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