Monetary Policies

India today is focusing on infrastructure led capital spending aimed at enhancing productivity and employment while ensuring fiscal prudence with 'targeted' interventions: Ajay Seth

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Investors were eagerly awaiting the outcome of the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. And, the outcome may shape the market momentum for the next few days. But what exactly is this meet?

RBI's forex moves, strong credit off-take lead to faster liquidity decline

The BoE's Monetary Policy Committee voted 8-1 for a half percentage point rise in Bank Rate to 1.75% - its highest level since late 2008 - from 1.25%

By front-loading rate hikes, RBI can cement the credibility of its monetary policy intent and action when it fights supply-side inflation on one hand and also contains the negative impact on growth

Flat growth may prompt the monetary policy committee not to go for an aggressive rate hike in August

Further reduction of State VATs on petrol and diesel across the country can certainly contribute to softening of the inflationary pressures as well as expectations: Shaktikanta Das

Last week, the BSE Sensex advanced 884.57 points or 1.61 per cent

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das headed six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is scheduled to announce the policy resolution on Thursday

Heavyweights including Brazil, China and India will report inflation data this week against a backdrop of quickening growth that's being fueled by months of easy money and fiscal largess

Noting that at the G20 meeting in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, it is absolutely vital that some agreement must be signed for production and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, Snower said

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Demand impact will continue to weigh heavily on economic activity for some time, says Shaktikanta Das, but is optimistic about rural economy due to good farm harvest

In the absence of clarity about the impact of this crisis on demand and supply, any measure undertaken presents the possibility of proving to be eminently wrong when clarity eventually emerges

International passenger travel would remain shut for a long time, not for weeks but for months, he said citing examples of sectors which will continue to be non-functional

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