Food prices

UK food prices and shop price inflation pick up at end of 2025: survey

[LONDON] British store chains raised their prices more quickly last month and they might struggle to avoid further increases in 2026 due to higher costs, the British Retail Consortium said on Tuesday.

Services inflation edged up 1.9% in November, against October’s 1.8%, due to larger increases in the costs of point-to-point transport services and health insurance.

Singapore’s core, headline inflation hold steady at 1.2% in November

Official forecasts for 2025 also remain unchanged, at 0.5% for core inflation and 0.5% to 1% for headline inflation

In India alone, rice stocks, including unmilled rice paddy, in government warehouses totalled 63.09 million tonnes on Apr 1, nearly five times a government target of 13.6 million tonnes.
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Prices of all categories rose apart from meat, with vegetable oils jumping more than 7 per cent from the previous month, supported by concerns over palm oil production.

World food prices reach 18-month high in October, UN says

The price index was up 5.5% from a year ago and marked its highest since April 2023

Only one category, retail and other goods inflation, recorded higher year-on-year inflation in September, compared with August.

Singapore inflation marginally higher than expected in September; core at 2.8%, headline at 2%

Sequentially, core CPI edges up 0.1 per cent; headline CPI is up 0.3 per cent

The 3 per cent gain in the gauge – that tracks grains, sugar, meat, dairy and vegetable oils costs – is the largest increase since March 2022.

World food price index marks biggest rise since March 2022

Higher food prices may continue to hit consumers as bad weather and escalating tensions in the Middle East threaten to roil food markets