NEW DELHI, April 16 (Reuters) - India's annual wholesale
price inflation edged down to 2.47 percent in March
from a year earlier, helped by a fall in food prices, government
data showed on Monday.
The latest print came below a 2.58 percent increase forecast
by economists in a Reuters poll.
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SUB INDEX (WEIGHT) March Feb Pct Change
(m/m)
PRIMARY ARTICLES 22.62 127.4 128.0 -0.5
FUEL AND POWER 13.15 98.0 98.1 -0.1
MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS 64.23 115.7 115.2 +0.4
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SOURCE: Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
(Compiled by Manoj Kumar in NEW DELHI; Editing by Malini Menon)