Pakistan: Pakistan Market Price Bulletin, July 2016

Highlights

• In June 2016, wheat and wheat flour price remained unchanged from May 2016;

• The headline inflation based on the overall Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 0.6% from May 2016, and by 3.2% from the same month last year (June 2015);

• Prices of most non‐cereal food commodities either declined or remained unchanged from May 2016;

• The Casual labour wage/Wheat flour Terms‐of‐Trade (ToT) average has been slightly improving since the last quarter of 2015 due to stable wheat flour price; and

• In June 2016, the estimated global wheat supplies increased by 9.2 million tons (MT) amounting to 983 million MT primarily due to greater wheat production in Russia and Ukraine.