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 for policy actions with RBI [...]
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RBI: Rates, Banks and Inflation
September 19th, 2011 
Praveen Bajaj 
Posted in Economy 
Tags: rbi, RBI Banks, RBI Inflation, RBI Rates, reserve bank of india 
2 Comments »India Inflation : WPI March 2010
April 16th, 2010 Praveen Bajaj 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 months, driven by higher [...]
Posted in Economy Tags: food articles inflation, iip, inflation, monetary policy, Pranab Mukherjee, repo rate, reserve bank of india, reverse repo rate, WPI 2 Comments »RBI Raises Repo, Reverse Repo Rates
March 23rd, 2010 Praveen Bajaj 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 help banks to [...]
Monetary Policy and Credit Policy
October 28th, 2009 Praveen Bajaj 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 the fact that the policy [...]
Posted in Economy Tags: cpi, credit policy, crr, inflation, monetary policy, PLR, repo rate, reserve bank of india, reverse repo rate, slr, WPI No Comments »