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RBI unexpectedly hits pause on rate cut; lowers FY20 GDP forecast to 5%

The 6-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), headed by RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das, unanimously voted to hold the key repo rate at 5.15% and reverse repo rate at 4.90%

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

Best of BS Opinion: Delhi air pollution, a retreat from RCEP, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

The logjam in rate transmission

The gap between lending rates and RBI's repo rate has reached levels only seen in crises

RBI monetary policy: Here's what experts say about the latest rate cut

The six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) cut the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.15 per cent

Monetary policy review: RBI set to cut rate. Question is by how much?

The policy decision will be announced at 11:45 a.m. in Mumbai, followed by a press conference 15 minutes later by Das

Why linking loans to external benchmark is a tough challenge for banks

Rating agency Moody's Investor Services has already warned that the move would be credit negative for banks, causing volatility in net interest margins

Rate cuts not enough to boost liquidity-starved housing market: Poll

The government's own assessment is that the lack of available credit is the worst in over 70 years

Linking lending and repo rates may eat into bank's profitability

Current situation may not allow banks to significantly tinker with deposit rates making it tough to fully pass on the fall in repo rate

Minutes of MPC meeting: Fixing weak economic growth remains top priority

What is telling is that large swings in the Indian business cycle are still not a thing of the past, despite the adoption of inflation targeting in India

Time to formally link rates to repo, says RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das

Shaktikanta Das likely to initiate required steps in coming weeks

Budget numbers indeed look challenging to achieve: DSP MF's Saurabh Bhatia

Whilst the noise on feasibility of budget numbers and risks on sovereign borrowing would persist in the near term, the budget outcome has certainly eased the job for RBI MPC to ease rates further

In policy making, you have to take a call beyond numbers: Shaktikanta Das

Numbers are paramount, what our assessment of the incoming data is, and how we see the incoming data, Das said

RBI likely to cut repo rate by another 40 bps in the rest of 2019-20

After back-to-back rate cuts, RBI could pause in the October policy but then deliver a 25-bp rate cut in the December policy after July-September GDP data are out in November-end

Banks must transmit RBI rate cut to hike consumption, investment: India Inc

The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee on Wednesday cut the interest rate by 35 basis points -- the fourth successive reduction -- to a nine-year-low level

Letter to BS: RBI alone will not be able drive economic recovery

Confidence-building measures from the government are essential to boost the sentiments of the investors

Beyond the rate cut

RBI alone will not be able drive economic recovery

RBI may hike repo rate by 0.25% in 2018, says CARE Ratings' report

The RBI expects inflation to go up to between 5.1-5.6 per cent in the first half of the next fiscal or the April-September period, before cooling down