Lower Inflation in India Signals Possible Interest Rate Cut

India's inflation is falling for the eighth month in a row, which opens up for a new interest rate cut from the country's central bank.

Consumer prices rose in June by 2.1 percent compared to the same period the previous year. The figure can be compared to an increase of 2.8 percent in May and 2.25 percent that economists had forecast, according to Bloomberg's compilation.

Indian households have, among other things, seen how food prices fell by 0.2 percent in June, with a particularly sharp decline when it comes to vegetables that backed down 19 percent on an annual basis.