SENSITIVE PRICE INDEX- SPI

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Insaf Research Team
irt@insaf.pk
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Date: SEPT 15, 2014


Insaf Research Team (IRT)

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SENSITIVE PRICE INDEX- SPI
FOR AUGUST 2014

Preamble: Analysis report on SPI for the month of AUGUST 2014 is
attached for the domestic and international prices of the essential basket of
commodities. Comparison has been made from current month AUGUST 2014 to
the last month JULY 2014 and from current month AUGUST 2014 to the last year of
the same month AUGUST 2013.

Domestic prices monthly compassion: It is observed from the data of
the domestic commodities that some of the prices this month of AUGUST 2014
have gone up and some of the prices have gone down as compared to the last
month of JULY 2014.

On monthly comparison it is observed there is increasing trend in the prices
of milk, Bread, Beef, pulses, mutton, LPG, sugar, Onions and Eggs prices have gone
up in the range from 1.2% - 26.53% and significant increasing trend in the prices of
Eggs and Onions around 21.31% and 26.53% respectively as compared to the last
month. Cooking oil, Vegitable ghee, Petrol and DAP prices are stable and there is
a decreasing trend in the prices of Rice, Chicken, Tea bags, Furnace oil, Gold and
Cotton in the range 0.20% - 10.56% as compared to the last month.

Insaf Research Team (IRT)

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Domestic prices yearly compassion: It is observed from the data of the
domestic prices that some of the prices in this month of the year AUGUST 2014
have gone up and some of the prices have gone down as compared to the same
month of last year AUGUST 2013.

On yearly comparison it is observed there is an increasing trend in the prices
of rice, beef, mutton, milk, eggs, pluses, rice, bread, cement and urea that have
gone up from 0.29% - 20.5%. Whereas, there is a decreasing trend of prices of
wheat, chicken, potatoes, onion, tea bags, LPG, DAP, cotton and gold prices
decreases down in the range from 0.36% - 37.57% as compared to the last year.
There is drastic increasing trend in the prices of Potatoes that is 120.23% and
decrease in the tomatoes prices to 37.57% as compared to the last year of the
same month.

International prices compassion: it is observed from the monthly data of the
international commodities there is increasing trend in the prices of wheat and dap
from 7.24% - 7.37% and decreasing trend in the prices of oil, gold, sugar and urea
from last month in the range 4.37%-11.54%. However, in the yearly data, there is an
increasing trend in the prices of urea and dap in the range of 17.24% to 19.67%
and decreasing trend in oil, gold. Sugar, rice and wheat in the range of 5.04% -
17.67% .

Source:
1) http://www.pbs.gov.pk/spi
2) http://www.sbp.org.pk/ecodata/tpi.asp