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 [...]
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Bond market/ G-Sec update
July 11th, 2010 
Praveen Bajaj 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 were dragged down due [...]
Bond market/ G-Sec update
July 3rd, 2010 Praveen Bajaj After a hefty 8 bps points jump on Friday of last week due to decision to free up fuel price (read MB update here), G-sec markets opened the week on a strong note. Announcement by RBI that the borrowing amount for the week will be at the reduced levels kept the sentiments up. Yields on benchmark [...]
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No Comments »Weekly G-Sec update:June19, 2010
June 20th, 2010 Praveen Bajaj 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 also rose after comments [...]
Posted in Economy Tags: 7.80% 2020, benchmark 10 year bond, inflation, liquidity, rbi, repo, Yields No Comments »Weekly G-Sec update:June 12, 2010
June 13th, 2010 Praveen Bajaj 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 of the combined [...]
Posted in Economy Tags: benchmark 10 year bond, inflation, liquidity, repo, WPI, Yields 2 Comments »Banking terms explained
June 4th, 2010 Shalini Tibe 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 bit on few of these [...]
Posted in Classroom Tags: crr, forex money market, inflation, money market trader, repo, repo trader, reverse repo, slr 2 Comments »RBI Monetary Policy 2010
April 19th, 2010 Praveen Bajaj Monetary Policy Predictions Finally the D-day is here..the day when RBI Governor Dr.D Subbarao will announce the monetary policy putting (or rather saying probably putting) an end to the much speculated move of RBI..will it hike the rates, which rate will be hiked and how much..before RBI announces the rates here is MoneyBol’s take on [...]
Posted in Economy Tags: crr, D Subbarao, iip, inflation, liquidity, monetary policy, PMEAC, Rangarajan, rbi, repo, reverse repo, WPI No Comments »