MUMBAI: India’s wholesale inflation eased 0.39 percent in January, a second fall in three months, aided by a drop in fuel prices, data showed on Monday.

The fall in the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), the inflation measure with the biggest basket of goods, belied expectations of a 0.11 percent rise as forecast in a Bloomberg survey and raised hopes for more interest rate cuts.

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