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Fuel taxes set off inflation worries at Monetary Policy Committee meetingThe RBI has been forced to halt the rate cuts they planned, with inflationary pressures continuing to rise. In July, the country's wholesal...
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...
Do lower rates hurt savers? Not quite, says RBI researchEconomic models suggest that loss of interest income is made up by a rise in demand and wages, as per views put forth at MPC meeting.
Fixed deposit returns may not rise in near futureEconomists are embracing models that suggest that only some savers lose out but a chunk of them gain through higher economic activity. RBI ...
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...
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...
RBI monetary policy announcement on October 9RBI had postponed its MPC meeting due to delays in naming new members to the committee.
- Economists question 8.8% Q1 GDP growth number
Government's claim has been questioned by economists, who said the huge gap between the different growth estimates was confusing.
- This is the cyclical peak in growth numbers: Mridul Saggar, Kotak Securities
Mridul Saggar, Chief Economist, Kotak Securities analyses the just out April-June quarter GDP growth numbers, in a chat with ET Now.
- Economists give thumbs up to 8.6% GDP growth in Q1
An ET poll of six senior economists revealed that the economy may have surpassed the 8.6% growth rate, recorded in the three months to Marc...
- Inflation falls to single digit at 9.97% in July, RBI unlikely to hike key rates
The annual rate of inflation fell into single digits in July, increasing the chances of the central bank pausing its interest rate increase...
- April-July indirect tax collections up 46.2%, show growth on track
The Centre’s indirect tax collections grew a strong 46.2% in the first four months of the current fiscal from a year ago.
- RBI to keep dovish stance on rates
RBI is expected to retain its soft interest rate bias at next week’s quarterly policy review even if it doesn’t cut key policy rates.
- RBI, Sebi turf war likely as policy makers root for single regulator
A policy proposal could stoke an old, simmering turf war between two financial market regulators - RBI and SEBI.
- Current account swings to a surplus in March
India's current account may have swelled to a surplus in Mar Q, but couldn't prevent a wider deficit for the full 2008/09 fiscal as imports...
- PSU divestment may be capped at Rs 20,000 cr in FY10: Kotak
The government may not be able to raise over Rs 20,000 crore through its disinvestment plan for public sector companies in FY 2010, but thi...
- Poll expenditure to boost GDP
India Inc may have hit the slowdown lane but with 'netas' having to spend a lot to get to the winning post, elections have come as a 'boost...