India inflation cools greater than anticipated in October, boosting hopes for additional fee cuts


A person pushes a trolley inside a grocery store in Mumbai, India, on September 7, 2025. (Photograph by Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto through Getty Photographs)

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India’s shopper inflation cooled to 0.25% in October, strengthening hopes of extra coverage easing by the Reserve Financial institution of India.

The headline inflation quantity was beneath estimates of a 0.48% rise, in line with a Reuters ballot of economists, and easing greater than the 1.54% recorded in September.

In October, the central financial institution revised its inflation forecast to 2.6% from 3.1% for the fiscal 12 months ending March 2026, however stored its key coverage fee unchanged at 5.

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