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RBI: Rates, Banks and Inflation
There could not have been a more opportune time for me to write this article. With every passing day since the last year, Dr Subbarao’s job is getting increasingly tougher. With inflation still keeping up against RBI and absence of significant structural actions on Government’s part to control inflation, options More >
India Inflation : WPI March 2010
- The WPI for the month of January stood at 9.90% against 1.20% in the corresponding month of the last year. The same figure posted 9.89% in the previous month. The figure released was below market expectationswhich was pegged at around 10.37%
- The figure registered increased at the fastest pace in 17 More >
RBI Raises Repo, Reverse Repo Rates
Before getting into the details, let us first understand -
What is Repo Rate?Definition of Repo Rate: Whenever the banks have any shortage of funds they can borrow it from RBI. Repo rate is the rate at which commercial banks borrow rupees from RBI. A reduction in the repo rate will More >
Monetary Policy and Credit Policy
The Reserve Bank of India announced its second quarter review of monetary/credit policy. Despite the fact that most of the key rates policy rates remained unchanged as expect, the benchmark indices corrected by around 2% with the banking and real estate sectors plummeting the most. This is mainly because of More >