Commodity Inflation News Today

li on the difference in 24 hours. susan? >> a new reality that inflation is higher and may stay elevated for some time. todays wholesale prices are the inflation that producers pay still much higher than a year ago. sure, coming down from the previous month. couple that with yesterdays consumer price jump and were close to the 40-year highs and thats more than four times the way the federal reserves thinks is healthy for the economy. close to a third predicting a full 1 percentage poin...

Companies such as HUL, ITC, Marico, Dabur, and Godrej Consumer Products said urban markets continued their moderate growth, while consumer demand from rural India remained subdued even as they expect an improvement in coming quarters. Moreover, the late arrival of winter also impacted the pickup of relevant products such as lotions, oils and creams. Hindustan Unilever (HUL) reported a muted growth in consolidated net profit at Rs 2,508 crore and its sales were marginally down to Rs 15,259 crore.

A rebound in demand in rural India will be crucial for Dabur, as it derives a bulk of its revenue from these regions.

India will have to brace itself for an inflationary shock that will only serve to bludgeon a COVID-ravaged economy.

An analysis showed interest coverage ratio (ICR), a measure of how easily a company can pay interest on its debt from earnings, declined sharply to 4.5 times at the end of the December quarter from 6.1 times at the end of the preceding quarter

Sales of cooling appliances crashed as the two covid waves struck at the onset of summer, leading to lockdowns

Inflationary concerns could dampen recovery for FMCGs Marico, whose brands include Parachute and Saffola, said its India business recorded double-digit volume growth in Q3FY21. (Image: Shuttershock) Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies are seeing signs of recovery in the third quarter of FY21 after demand saw an uptick during the festive season. However, growing commodity inflation could impede this recovery, analysts told Business Standard. The rise in crude oil price could increase the...

Frustrated. its very in line with how trump feels. neil: in line with a lot of -- they dont like when rates go up. it could rain on their parade. it could slow the recovery and hes probably just right in saying that. i think a lot of people try to clarify he doesnt like the piece of increases for he sees increase and says them overdoing it. is the fed risking overdoing it? >> i dont think so. the economy is doing that well. neil: but to garretts point there is no inflation? the next i would disa...

Horizon unless theres a geo-political event in north korea or pakistan, theres not a geo-political event anything on the horizon or event horizon that looks to derail this economy. the only thing that worries me is china exported deflation for so many years and starting now to export inflation and i think six to 18 months we could see that were seeing all prices up 50% in a year copper is up 31% starting to see some commodity inflation but that looks to be six to 18 months off and looks like acc...

Government shackles. hes cutting red tape like no previous president. i think he gets a big and of credit for the growth in the economy and the market. >> neil: john, what is remarkable about it, the growth came well before the tax cuts. could be in anticipation of the cuts or could be the deregulatory push. be that as it may, its a strong performance. some have a feeling that, you know, theres got to be a give back here a slow down here. we dont see it. do you? >> no, we dont see it. thats the ...