July 17 - India's wholesale price index <INWPI=ECI> rose 11.91 percent in the 12 months to July 5, just above the previous week's annual rise of 11.89 percent, government data showed on Thursday.
The rate was below a median forecast of 12.05 percent in a Reuters poll of analysts, and is the highest since annual numbers in the current series became available in April 1995. ------------------------------------------------------------ KEY POINTS: SUB-INDEX July 5 June 28 Pct change PRIMARY ARTICLES 246.1 246.4
-0.1 Food articles 234.4 234.8
-0.2 FUEL,POWER, LIGHT AND LUBRICANTS 376.3 374.4 +0.5 MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS 205.4 204.8 +0.3 Food Products 211.2 211.3 -0.5 Textiles 139.8 139.6 +0.1 Chemicals & Chemical Products
222.1 221.0 +0.5 ------------------------------------------------------------- Note: Articles in CAPITALS are sub-indices. Articles in lower case are specific categories within the sub-indices. ---------------------------------------------------------------- (Reporting by Surojit Gupta and Rajkumar Ray, Editing by Mark Williams) ((rajkumar.ray@thomsonreuters.com; +91-11-4178-1006; Reuters Messaging: surojit.gupta.reuters.com@reuters.net))
