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Top headlines: Ukraine president pleads for peace, oil shock may sting

Mutual funds are keeping their powder dry to invest in LIC's IPO that is expected to hit the market next month

Oil's not well: Inflation may not stay in sync with MPC's estimate

Oil shock: Current account deficit may touch 2.5% of GDP next year

RBI's MPC is expected to begin raising key lending rate from April

The MPC of the central bank maintained the repo rate, or short-term lending rate, for commercial banks, at 4 per cent

Monetary policy: RBI surprises with dovish note as growth concerns weigh

Repo rate unchanged at 4%; stance 'accommodative'

Sensex up 460pts, Nifty tops 17600 on dovish RBI policy; bond yields dip 1%

Repo rate was left unchanged at 4 per cent and the reverse repo rate at 3.35 per cent

RBI policy calms bond, equity markets. How analysts interpret the decision

The RBI's dovish stance has also provided comfort to the unnerved bond and equity markets.

Bond yields cool off before Reserve Bank of India's monetary policy

RBI watchers call for a CRR hike to support OMOs

Here's what MPC may take into account before announcing its decision today

The gap, which is 25 basis points (bps) during normal times, has widened to 65 bps since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic

MPC will pave way for faster policy normalisation

As the MPC signals normalisation, a key challenge for the RBI would be to ensure that even as sovereign yields rise, the move is orderly

RBI postpones MPC meet to Feb 8 as Maharashtra declares holiday on Monday

The meeting of the interest rate setting body, which was scheduled to start on Monday, will now begin on February 8

Bond market message

Conducting monetary policy will become more challenging

Union Budget 2022: Govt borrowing plan may prompt reverse repo hike

15-40 bps raise likely in MPC meeting next week, say market participants

Budget should maximise capex, set stage for MPC to control inflation

Budget 2022: ICRA expects a satus quo on the stance of the monetary policy as well as the reverse repo rate in the upcoming meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee.

Gauging the impact of Omicron on the country's GDP though the MPC lens

It is widely accepted that the Omicron spread would impact the ongoing quarter but it would be much softer than that of the second wave on the first quarter of the current fiscal

Rates on hold but RBI MPC gets battle ready for economy as Omicron looms

Committee meeting kept policy stance accommodative as Jayanth Varma opposed, but the central bank later worked on raising money market rates through VRRR.

MPC minutes: Omicron may derail ongoing demand recovery, says RBI Governor

'Need to remain vigilant to incipient cost-push pressures to inflation as well as to uncertainty imparted by Omicron. Its implication for inflation, going forward, are two-fold,' says Shaktikanta Das

Monetary policy committee: RBI holds key rates to boost recovery

Repo rate unchanged at 4% and reverse repo at 3.35%

Fitment panel's GST recommendations may cause immediate spike in inflation

The 5% tax rate broadly covers most food items, so an increase here would directly impact the monthly grocery budget of households

10 key events, policy decisions during Shaktikanta Das' first stint at RBI

Here are the 10 important events, policy decisions that Das undertook after becoming the 25th governor of the RBI on Dec 12, 2018

Growth recovering, but external shocks pose biggest risk to prices: MPC

There is a slack in the economy, and the RBI governor expected it to exceed the pre-pandemic level of output only in the third quarter of 2021-22