{"id":4882,"date":"2023-10-22T17:01:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T11:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/incredmoney.wpcomstaging.com\/?p=4882"},"modified":"2025-02-19T06:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T06:31:15","slug":"do-tomatoes-affect-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblog.incredmoney.com\/blog\/do-tomatoes-affect-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Tomatoes Affect Investments?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tomato Prices have gone up by 100%, Onion Prices are up by 150%! Inflation is so high!<\/h2>\n

Inflation <\/strong>or \u2018mahangai<\/strong>\u2019 is a very important topic in an Indian\u2019s life. Many times, it becomes an icebreaker in conversations – \u201cPetrol has become so expensive, matter of time before it crosses 100?\u201d. Remember the dialogue from 3 Idiots where Sharman Joshi\u2019s mother says that \u2018now Paneer would be sold in packets by a jeweler?\u2019<\/p>\n

Or when recently tomato prices had gone off the roof, there were hilarious memes circulated on social media. Here\u2019s one of them :<\/p>\n

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Inflation affects everyone<\/strong>. That\u2019s why when prices of goods like petrol, veggies, cereals and pulses go up, there is a lot of hue and cry. A high inflation can also affect your Home Loan EMIs. Higher inflation leads to higher interest rates and affects everyone who has taken loans. Elections are sometimes won or lost on inflation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But headlines don\u2019t always reveal the actual status of inflation. The nuances get hidden beneath the headlines. Just one or two goods having high inflation may not mean that the overall inflation is high.<\/p>\n

So let me break it up for you as to how Inflation is computed. The Consumer Price Index or CPI<\/strong> (formal name of Retail inflation) is constituted of various goods and services that households consume and they have a certain weight attached to it.<\/p>\n

Did you know?<\/h3>\n