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Monetary policy review: RBI likely to maintain its pause on rates

The MPC had sharply revised its CPI inflation forecast for H2FY20 to 5.1-4.7 per cent from 3.5-3.7 per cent, with risks broadly balanced

Notable turnaround in mineral production due to policy reforms: Survey

The production of major minerals during 2018-19 has recorded a growth of 25 per cent over previous year in terms of value, it said

Key takeaways from RBI's monetary policy meet

GDP growth forecast for FY20 has been revised downwards from 6.1 per cent in the October policy to 5 per cent

Monetary policy that stabilises

When expected inflation drops, the policy rate should drop even more

Financial sector stress

It is not obvious how the system will come out of it

Why monetary easing alone is not enough

Monetary easing has been ineffective in lowering the cost of funds. The challenge is for the central and state governments to work together to revive the animal spirits of entrepreneurs

Why ration out rate cuts when slowdown is so sharp?

The direction is clear -- there will be more rate cuts but the pace will depend on the incoming data

More rate cuts? RBI vows to ease monetary policy as 'long as necessary'

The Reserve Bank of India lowered its benchmark repurchase rate by 25 basis points to 5.15 per cent on Friday, in line with the forecasts of a majority of economists

Why you should avoid long-duration funds despite good one-year returns

Over the past one year, long-duration and gilt funds have given high double-digit returns. Nonetheless, experts do not suggest investing in these categories

Monetary policy review: RBI may cut rate, but commentary will be cautious

Economic and markets indicators are increasingly signaling a slowing economy, but an even greater worry is a weakness of both consumer and investment sentiment

Sovereign bond yields to consolidate ahead of monetary policy review: DBS

The Reserve Bank's next policy review meet is scheduled to be held from August 5th to 7th

Monetary policy review: RBI may keep policy rates unchanged on December 5

Here are the few factors that the six-member monetary policy committee would be examining carefully before taking a policy call.

Monetary policy review: RBI to hike repo rate by 25 bps in Oct, says expert

From August to now, Indian crude oil basket has moved up by around 12% , while INR depreciated by 6%

Urjit Patel may cut rate by 0.25% in policy review on Wednesday

RBI has cut repo by 1.75 per cent since January 2015

BS Jury on bi-monthly monetary policy review

ARUNDHATI BHATTACHARYAChairman, State Bank of IndiaThe first policy decision by MPC was more or less along the expected lines with a rate cut of 25 bps from 6.5 per cent to 6.25 per cent. The market, however, was divided on the quantum of the cut. The policy sounds cautious on the inflation trajectory with the target of achieving CPI inflation at five per cent by Q4 FY17. With good monsoon, the pressure from food prices is likely to abate and the inflation trajectory is expected to remain under control in the coming months, beginning November. This will give RBI further scope to cut rates. With the MCLR regime in place, banks are taking baby steps in reducing their interest rates. On a monthly basis, SBI has reduced its one-year MCLR by 25 bps. With this rate cut, the lending rates are expected to come down further. Liquidity conditions are also favourable with the system in surplus mode. Core liquidity has increased from Rs 33,200 crore in August to Rs 48,700 crore in September. Comfo

Cut provides boost to economy: Ravi Uppal

During the last three years, RBI, while keeping a hawk's eye on inflation, had eased lending rates and liquidity norms progressively, but cautiously

Cut boosts markets' morale: A Balasubramanian

I would call it a 'festival bonanza' to boost the morale of the financial market

Cut augurs well for industry: Rajeev Talwar

A cut in home loan rates will surely help buyers firm up their decision to buy a house this festival season and give a fillip to sales

Letters: Policy review countdown

With reference to "RBI may pause this time, but rate cut likely in Dec" (September 26), the "outcome" of a poll conducted by Business Standard that involved key bankers, economists, rating agency executives and bond market players amply indicates that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may maintain status quo when the newly constituted Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meets at its bi-monthly monetary policy review on October 4. It gains more significance as there is no marked unanimity amongst them over what could possibly be the final call of the new incumbent at the central bank on this matter.However, it's strongly felt that the views of Upasana Bhardwaj, senior economist with Kotak Mahindra Bank, are most convincing in the economic scenario. At the same time, I beg to differ with Soumya Kanti Ghosh, chief economist with State Bank of India though he is confident of a 25-50 basis point rate cut in the ensuing meet. Perhaps, he may be sounding "over-optimistic" as no one else is toeing h

No scope for rate cut on Tuesday

Since January 2015, RBI has reduced its policy rates by 150 basis points to 6.50%