Pakistan: Pakistan Market Price Bulletin, September 2016

Highlights

• In August 2016, wheat and wheat flour prices negligibly increased by 1% and 0.2%, respectively from July 2016;
• Headline inflation, based on Consumer Price Index (CPI), negligibly decreased by 0.3% from the previous month (July 2016), and slightly increased by 3.6% from the same month last year (August 2015);
• Compared to last month, prices of most non‐cereal food commodities remained stable except for chicken and sugar;
• In August 2016, the average ToT recovered negligibly by 0.9% after taking a dip of 1% in July 2016.
• In August 2016, total global wheat production for 2016‐2017 was projected at 744.8 million tons (MT).