{"id":433580,"date":"2026-07-13T17:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/indias-annual-inflation-rate-breaches-the-rbi-target-for-the-first-time-in-16-months-rising-to-4-38-in-june-433580\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:45:35","slug":"indias-annual-inflation-rate-breaches-the-rbi-target-for-the-first-time-in-16-months-rising-to-4-38-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/indias-annual-inflation-rate-breaches-the-rbi-target-for-the-first-time-in-16-months-rising-to-4-38-in-june-433580\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s annual inflation rate breaches the RBI target for the first time in 16 months rising to 4.38% in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>June CPI Y\/Y 4.38% vs 4.30% expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior 3.93%\ufeff<\/li>\n<li>\ufeffFull report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2284125&amp;reg=48&amp;lang=2\" rel=\"follow\">here<\/a>\ufeff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style='font-family: \"Google Sans Text\", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 !important; margin-top: 0 !important'>India&#8217;s annual inflation rate rose to 4.38% in June, breaching the central bank&#8217;s medium-term target for the first time in 16 months, driven primarily by rising food and fuel costs amid geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and a delayed monsoon.<\/p>\n<p style='font-family: \"Google Sans Text\", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 !important; margin-top: 0 !important'>The inflation print came in higher than the 4.3% forecast  and marked a significant acceleration from the 3.93% recorded in May, according to data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.<\/p>\n<p style='font-family: \"Google Sans Text\", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 !important; margin-top: 0 !important'>\n<p id=\"p-rc_8a849fe6334e01d2-22\" style='font-family: \"Google Sans Text\", sans-serif !important; line-height: 1.15 !important; margin-top: 0 !important'>The latest reading puts renewed pressure on the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which has a mandate to keep headline inflation at 4% within a tolerance band of 2% to 6%. The central bank had held its key repo rate steady at 5.25% at its last policy meeting, but the faster-than-expected rise in prices may prompt policymakers to adopt a more hawkish stance in upcoming meetings.\u00a0Upward risks to the inflation outlook remain as ongoing hostilities in the Middle East threaten further energy price shocks\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by flfeaa2662d774455a8d50fa77b791ed5f at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June CPI Y\/Y 4.38% vs 4.30% expected Prior 3.93%\ufeff \ufeffFull report here\ufeff India&#8217;s annual inflation rate rose to 4.38% in June, breaching the central bank&#8217;s medium-term target for the first time in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}