Market interest rates have risen over the past few months and the 10-year Treasury, often a benchmark for borrowing costs, is now yielding 4.45% – up from 3.6% in mid-September. Mortgage rates have risen about a percentage point to an average of 7% now from early September.

India's wholesale price index rose to 2.36 percent in October. Food prices increased, pushing retail inflation to a 14-month high. The Reserve Bank of India held its benchmark interest rate steady. The central bank maintained its inflation forecast for the fiscal year at 4.

WPI inflation in October 2024 is primarily due to increase in prices of food articles, manufacture of food products, other manufacturing, manufacture of machinery and equipment, manufacture of motor vehicles,