The Weekly Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the Combined Group increased by 1.35% WoW during the week ended March 14, 2024, while the SPI rose 32.89% YoY compared to the corresponding period from last year.

During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 18 (35.29 percent) items increased, 10 (19.61 percent) items decreased and 23 (45.10 percent) items remained stable.

The SPI for the week under review was recorded at 327.21 points against 322.86 points registered in the previous week, according to the PBS data released on Friday.

The SPI for the consumption group up to Rs17,732, Rs17,732-Rs22,888, Rs22,889-Rs29,517, Rs29,518-Rs44,175 and above Rs44,175 increased by 0.91 percent, 0.86 percent, 1.25 percent, 1.41 percent, and 1.55 percent respectively.

Items	% increased during review period
Tomatoes	21.96
Eggs	7.15
Onions	5.57
LPG	4.45
Garlic	3.62
Mutton	1.74
Beed with bone	1.53
Chicken	0.94
Cooked daal	0.25

The items’ prices of which declined during the period under review include cooking oil dalda or other similar brand (sn), 5 litre tin each (1.08 percent), vegetable ghee dalda/habib 2.5 kg tin each (1.07 percent), wheat flour bag 20 kg (0.95 percent), sugar (0.64 percent), gur (0.57 percent), rice basmati broken (0.50 percent), pulse masoor (0.17 percent), pulse mash (0.15 percent), vegetable ghee dalda/habib or other superior quality 1 kg pouch each (0.12 percent) and pulse gram (0.01 percent).

The year-on-year trend depicts an increase of 32.89 percent, Gas Charges for Q1 (570 percent), tomatoes (185.68percent), onions (90.27percent), chilies powder (81.74percent), garlic (60.13percent), gents sponge chappal (58.05percent), gents sandal (53.37percent), wheat flour (51.91percent), gur (41.32percent), sugar (37.09percent), salt powder (34.71percent) and energy saver while decrease is observed in the prices of cooking oil 5 litre (21.33percent), vegetable ghee 1 kg (19.12percent), vegetable ghee 2.5 kg (17.89percent), mustard oil (15.26percent), bananas (3.94percent), diesel (1.88percent) and cigarettes (0.05percent).