Vegetables drive weekly SPI up to 0.02%
Listen to the article Karachi: The Sensitive Price Index (SPI) for the week ended on June 4, 2025, recorded a marginal rise of 0.02%, reflecting mixed prices for basic goods across Pakistan. SPI, which follows 51 basics in 50 markets in 17 cities, has shown remarkable weekly increases in tomatoes (16.94%), potatoes (11.52%) and onions (5.21%). Moderate price increases were also observed in bananas (1.57%), eggs (1.34%), sugar (1.24%), broken basmati rice (1.02%), GUR (0.81%) and gasoline (0.41%). In contrast, chickens prices decreased abruptly by 11.22%, while garlic decreased by 3.71%. Small reductions were recorded in LPG, ghee vegetables and
