New Delhi: The market movement was affected by the inflation figures announced on Friday.
For the week ending March 10, inflation remained unchanged at 6.46 per cent as rise in prices of some items was neutralised by decline in others.
The market expected the figure to go up to 6.51 per cent. The figure stood at just 3.80 per cent a year ago.
Prices of food products like vegetables, fruits and spices moved up, while those of wheat and gram declined.
Among food products, prices of vegetables, fruits, eggs, mutton, fish-marine, bajara, condiments and spices moved up, while those of wheat, gram, urad and moong declined.
Even in manufactured category, some food products like oil cakes and khandsari became expensive, while others like gur were cheaper.
Among other items, sunflower, linseed, rubber, insulated cables, power driven pumps became costlier, while prices of copra, groundnut seed, telephone cables fell.
Interestingly, the data did not show price movements of cement, which occupied much attention of the policy makers for major portion of this week.
(With inputs from PTI)
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