Page 19 - Interest Rates

External benchmark: Right step, wrong tool

While politicians and businessmen don't see eye to eye on anything during a slowdown, the one thing they all agree on is that cutting interest rates would spur growth

Economists predict deeper interest-rate cuts, slow economic growth

GDP rose 5 per cent in the June quarter from a year ago, the slowest pace in six years and lower than all the forecasts in a Bloomberg survey of economists

Fixing the demand slump: Seven reasons for slowdown, and possible solutions

The govt might look for quick fixes under pressure to revive the economy, but sustainable economic growth will continue to be elusive without structural changes, writes T N Ninan

Tipping point: Is this a good time to enter the dynamic bond funds?

The key risk is that the fund manager may not always take the right calls

Reforming small savings

Interest rates should be linked to market outcomes

Don't be shy of shifting lenders if you see a significant benefit

Old customers should seek best rates, or go for balance transfer

Top-up loan scores over personal and gold loan: All you need to know

Here's how the interest rate on top-up home loans by different banks and institutes stack up

With falling rupee, rising interest costs ring alarm bells for India Inc

Many large companies and public sector banks and financial institutions are tapping the international markets to take advantage of the cheaper funds

Prepay part of your home loan to soften blow of rising interest rates

On the sunny side, FD rate hike is good news for seniors; Go for short-term deposits, roll over to those with higher rates when they mature

Indian interest rates: Yields will depend on how banks resume Gilt buying

In the medium, to long term it will be influenced by how the mandate of MPC is modified to manage influenceable inflation rather than broad headline inflation.

Govt keeps interest rate unchanged on small savings schemes for Q3

The Reserve Bank of India is scheduled to undertake monetary policy review on October 4

Interest rates to slowly become reasonable: Arun Jaitley

LIC has come out with a pension scheme to offer fixed rate of interest to investors: Jaitley

RBI likely to keep interest rates unchanged at review on June 7: Poll

Expected reverse repo rate to be at 6% this time, after a surprise 25 basis point increase in April

Letters: Alignment is key

No economy can afford ponzi schemes to thrive nor delink from real interest rates

Despite repo pause, banks likely to cut rates

Reversal of 100% CRR on deposits and steady flow of money into low cost deposits expected to push interest rates down

Ajay Srinivasan: Are negative interest rates the new normal?

Central banks can set rates low enough to stimulate an economy in recession, and raise them once a recovery gets underway

Interest earned by Indians on bank deposits at record low

Interest rates on a normal savings account have remained constant under the NDA government at 4 per cent

Lending rates to soften only slowly: Banks

SBI chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya says banks are not in position to compress margins as they have to provide for credit costs

Why lowering interest rates will not work for Indian economy

Unless banks get the confidence to lend, there is no way the economy will get the benefit of low interest rates

7 banks to pay $324 million for interest rate manipulation

In all, about 15 banks were named in the suit for alleged manipulation of the ISDAfix rate, the benchmark for interest rate derivatives