Posts tagged repo
First quarterly review of monetary policy 2010-11
Highlights of the policy
RBI Governor, Dr D V Subbarao announced the first quarterly review of monetary policy today. The measures taken were quite on the expected lines (Read our article on monetary policy expectations).
- Benchmark Repo rates hiked by 25 bps to 5.75% with immediate effect.
- Benchmark Reverse Repo rates hiked by 50 More >
Bond market/ G-Sec update
Yields on Government securities rose to the highest level in two weeks following the mid-term 25 bps rate hike by RBI on last Friday. Benchmark 10 year bond, 7.80% 2020 security rose 8 bps to 7.64% from 7.56% close of last week.
As expected, yields opened stronger on Monday, but later More >
Weekly G-Sec update:June19, 2010
High inflation released on Monday set the tone for the week. As expected, with the release of inflation above 10% mark, yields on benchmark 7.80% 2020 bond rose 8 bps to close at 7.69% on Monday under fears that RBI might be forced to raise rates to tame inflation. Rates More >
Weekly G-Sec update:June 12, 2010
After trading in a range last week, yields on benchmark 10 year bond, 7.80% 2020 bond steadily rose 9 bps for the week to close at 7.61% for the week. Surge in yields was driven by tight liquidity conditions.
On all days of the week, we saw Repo window being active. Daily average More >
Banking terms explained
Friends, in many of the posts on this website, our analysts have used terms like repo rate, reverse repo rate and host of other ratios which might not be easily comprehensible to many of us. I have been receiving some queries regarding them as well. So here goes my small More >
