Share Market : Key benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty turned volatile and ended lower on Monday, tracking global equities

The current slowdown is the third slowdown since 1996 and will be the longest in the past 23 years if the next quarter's GDP is worse than 4.5%

The divergence is a normal trend because we are not talking about the same set of products and their price variations when we look at both the indices. Even when same products are looked at, the weightage they carry in these indices are not the same

October month's WPI is also lower than 5.54% recorded in the same month last year. It is also below 0.33% logged in September 2019

Bank of America Merrill Lynch's economists said the sudden spurt in inflation is \"temporary\" and expects it move up further to 4.6 percent in October.

This happens to be the fourteenth straight month where retail inflation has remained below the Reserve Bank of India's medium term target of 4 per cent

The annual rate of inflation, based on monthly WPI, was at 5.22 per cent in September 2018.

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The data released for August showed that Wholesale Price Food index rose to 5.75% in August from 4.54% in July. Food inflation shot up to 7.67% in August from 6.15% a month ago

WPI remains unchanged in August: Build up inflation rate in the financial year so far was 1.25% compared to a build up rate of 3.27% in the corresponding period of the previous year.

Government data said wholesale inflation in food articles was 6.15 per cent in July as against 6.98 per cent in the previous month. The WPI-based inflation was 2.02 per cent in June and 2.45 per cent in May

At the interbank forex market, the Indian rupee opened almost flat at 68.59, registering a decline of 5 paise over its last close of 68.54 against the US dollar,as the country's exports entered the negative zone after a gap of eight months.