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Rise in policy rate looks necessary, timing is the key: MPC MinutesIndia’s consumer price index (CPI), which overshot the RBI’s upper tolerance band of 6%, is fuelled by the escalating Russia-Ukraine confli...
Renewed surge in intl crude oil prices requires close monitoring: RBI Governor Das in MPC minutesAmid expectations of inflation peaking in the fourth quarter of the current fiscal, the renewed surge in international crude oil prices wil...
RBI Governor for continued policy support to nurture economic revival: MPC minutes"Given these uncertainties, continued policy support is warranted for a durable, broad-based and self-sustaining rebound, especially to nur...
RBI remains laser-focused to bring back inflation to 4 per cent: Governor Shaktikanta DasThe Reserve Bank of India's MPC left key rates unchanged at record lows earlier in the month and calmed nerves over stimulus withdrawal for...
Some MPC members warn high liquidity may become opium for marketsMPC members Professor Jayanth R. Varma and Dr. Mridul K. Saggar highlighted concerns in the minutes of the MPC’s August policy meeting, tha...
Jayanth Varma, the lone dissenter on RBI's policy stanceThe policy statement noted that the recovery remains uneven across sectors and needs to be supported by all policy makers. The Reserve Bank...
RBI increases CPI forecast, MPC’s Varma dissents on stance: Key takeaways from monetary policyDespite Das saying several times that the jump in CPI inflation to a six-month high in May was transitory and led by supply-side issues, th...
MPC highlighted rising risk to growth from Covid-19, slow vaccination driveRBI Governor Shaktikanta Das also highlighted that the new surge in Covid cases could be more infectious due to mutations and could pose “t...
America's $1.9 trillion rescue package could throw a spanner in RBI's recovery plansIn India, the government is following a borrow-to-grow strategy but the RBI, while helping keep the government’s borrowing cost low, is gea...
Who said what: Takeaways from RBI’s MPC minutesThe members acknowledged that the crash in vegetable prices and easing of supply chain problems have reduced the risk from inflation in the...
Too much fall in short term rates poses threat to financial stability: RBI minutesThe MPC left key interest rates unchanged this month amid persistently high inflation but said it would ensure ample liquidity to stressed ...
RBI Monetary Policy: 10 key takeaways from Shaktikanta Das's speechRBI believes rural demand, which is already a silver lining in times of crisis, is expected to strengthen further, while urban demand is al...
Second wave of COVID-19 could hamper nascent recovery: RBI GovernorThe reconstituted MPC, which met from October 7 to 9, had decided to keep the benchmark lending rates unchanged in view of the hardening of...
MPC Minutes: Guv pins hopes on Bharat, Patra feels growth focus disproportionateDas said robust agricultural production would not only have a salutary impact on rural demand but also should help to ease inflationary pre...
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Banks are increasingly resorting to novel techniques to win over customers for personal loans as high interest rates are putting off potent...