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India's wholesale prices up 3.39 percent in December

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Last Updated : Jan 16 2017 | 1:57 PM IST

REUTERS - India's wholesale prices rose 3.39 percent year-on-year in December, their fastest pace in two months, government data showed on Monday.

The data compared with a 3.50 percent annual rise forecast by economists in a Reuters poll. In November, prices rose a provisional 3.15 percent.

Last month, wholesale food prices fell 0.70 percent year-on-year, compared with a provisional 1.54 percent gain in November.

(Compiled by Rajesh Kumar Singh in NEW DELHI; Editing by Malini Menon)

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