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COMMODITIES: Inflation continues downward bias
Prices of primary articles move up. New Delhi, Dec. 26 The annual Wholesale Price Index-based inflation has dipped to a nine-month low of 6.61 per cent for the week ended December 13. This is lower than the previous week’s rise of 6.84 per ...

CULTIVATION: Area under most rabi crops shows a rise
Wheat, gram sowing holds promise; urad, moong acreage down. New Delhi, Dec. 26 Farmers have planted more area under wheat, rapeseed-mustard, gram and most other rabi crops this year compared with the previous season. This is expected to further ...

CULTIVATION: Farmers shift to profitable mixed cropping
Saves them when the price of one or the other crop crashes. Kochi, Dec. 26 Farmers, who had tried single (mono) cash crops for years and burnt their fingers on several occasions, have, of late, taken up mixed cropping that is proving to be a ...

CLIMATE & WEATHER: Mercury drops further over northwest, peninsula
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec. 26 Minimum temperatures continued to be below normal by 2 to 3 deg Celsius over parts of northwest, central and east India during the 24 hours ending Friday ...

RUBBER: Spot rubber rules flat
Kottayam, Dec. 26 Spot rubber showed an almost steady trend on Friday. RSS 4 closed flat at Rs 69 a kg as on Wednesday. The volumes were low. In domestic futures, the January contract for RSS 4 concluded the session at Rs 71.63 (68.88), ...

SPICES & CONDIMENTS: Pepper futures drop on selling pressure
Kochi, Dec. 26 The pepper futures market fell on Friday on bearish activities. All the contracts dropped as investors were liquidating stocks and buying back their sales. In fact, people were unwinding their positions so as to get out of ...

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Markets (Dec 27)
Nifty (on Dec 26)2857.25(-59.60)
US Dollar (Buy/Sell)48.39/40
Brent crude (a bbl) Rs1,709
Gold (a gram) Rs1,241
Silver (a kg) Rs18,305

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