India's retail inflation breaches RBI's midpoint target for second successive month, rises to 4.45% in July
- Source
- Livemint - Economy
- Source link
- https://www.livemint.com/economy/india-inflation-cpi-retail-inflation-july-inflation-rbi-food-inflation-fuel-prices-interest-rates-mpc-gdp-growth-11786518716734.html
- Published
- 2026-08-12 11:27:40
- Discovered by ProcIntel
- 2026-08-12 15:38:49
- Category
- Regulation, Tariffs, Sanctions & Trade
- Geography
- India
- Organisations
- —
- Review status
- Pending
- Record type
- REAL
Summary
India’s retail inflation crossed the RBI’s 4% midpoint target for a second straight month as food and fuel prices firmed, while elevated oil prices add to risks.
Possibly the same underlying story as
India’s July inflation quickens to 4.45% from 4.38% in June, stays above RBI target
— flagged automatically for review, never merged automatically.
Procurement Relevance Gate
PASS
— score 22.8/100 — evaluated 2026-08-12 15:38:49
Passed on: commodity_or_input_impact, geographic_exposure (score 22.8/100, threshold 20.0).
- commodity_or_input_impact (weight 12) — matched on "oil"
- geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"
Initial Signal Assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically-computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
- Initial Significance
- 1 · Low (14.0/100)
- Initial Confidence
- 2 · Low (39.0/100)
- Data sufficiency Whether enough structured evidence exists to trust this Signal's Initial Confidence reading. 'Sufficient' has no cap; 'Partial' and 'Insufficient' cap Confidence until more evidence is available; 'Not Assessed' means the Signal did not pass the Relevance Gate.
- Partial
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Geographic Breadth
Initial Significance Low (14.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39.0/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Extraction Quality (3.0/15 points).
- No likely Event type matched; a low contextual baseline was applied.
- No eligible (non-geographic, non-fictional) entities were linked to this Signal.
- no matched Event type
- no actor entities (only attribution/metadata, if any)
- no actor content-derived geography
- Only source-level entity metadata was available.
- Only source-level geography metadata was available.
- Source metadata did not contribute to Initial Confidence.
Methodology signal_scoring_v1 — calculated 2026-08-14 08:46:32.