Weekly SPI down 0.81pc

ISLAMABAD: The SPI for the current week ended on May 29, 2025 decreased by 0.81 percent. Decrease is observed in the prices of electricity charges for Q1 (10.10 percent), chicken (8.51 percent), LPG (2.67 percent), sugar (0.25 percent), powdered milk (0.20 percent), vegetable ghee 2.5kg (0.17 percent), wheat flour (0.09 percent), rice-IRRI-6/9 (0.07 percent), garlic (0.05 percent) and moong (0.01 percent), says Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).

The year-on-year trend depicts an increase of 0.41 percent, ladies sandal (55.62 percent), chicken (32.92 percent), eggs (32.30 percent), moong (31.45 percent), powdered milk (23.75 percent), sugar (21.96 percent), bananas (21.17 percent), pulse gram (19.66 percent), beef (17.51 percent), LPG (16.30 percent), vegetable ghee 2.5kg (13.67 percent), and vegetable ghee 1kg (12.76 percent), while major decrease is observed in the prices of onions (55.56 percent), electricity charges for Q1 (36.54 percent), potatoes (29.28 percent), garlic (26.51 percent), tomatoes (19.22 percent), tea Lipton (17.93 percent), maash (17.50 percent), wheat flour (15.11 percent), petrol (7.43 percent),masoor (7.42 percent), diesel (7.02 percent) and chilies powder (6.97 percent).

During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 14 (27.45 percent) items increased, 10 (19.61 percent) items decreased, 27 (52.94 percent) items remained stable.

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