During the recent monetary policy review meeting held between February 5 and 7, 2025, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) made the decision to reduce the policy repo rate from 6.50% to 6.25%. This marks a change after maintaining the rate unchanged for eleven consecutive meetings, which is about five years. The new Governor, Sanjay … Read more
Devendra Pant, Chief Economist, India Ratings, says food inflation is cooling off but there are two commodities which could be another source of problem for food inflation in general and your overall inflation in particular. In August ‘24, oil and fats had a deflation of 0.86% and come November it has an inflation of 13.28%. … Read more
India’s central bank will cut its key policy rate in December by a quarter point to 6.25% to bolster slowing economic growth, according to a slim majority of economists in a Reuters poll who also expect inflation to moderate in the near-term. Inflation unexpectedly spiked to 5.49% in September, but was forecast to cool to … Read more
“The NBFCs which have been growing very-very fast and the segment which they have been growing, if it is a very-very high-risk segment, so to that extent one has to be cognizant where one is investing,” says Dikshit Mittal, LIC Mutual Fund. Firstly, to start off with, the RBI has continued to maintain its stance. … Read more
A sharp increase in the inflation projection for the current fiscal by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday, while highlighting the global economic conditions, has dashed Dalal Street investors’ hope of a rate cut any time in the near future. Until the last policy meet, expectations were building for a longer pause and … Read more
Since the last monetary policy of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in April, the benchmark Nifty50 has rallied 1,000 points and Nifty Bank over 3,000 points. The 3,000-point rally in the banking sector gauge saw it scaling a lifetime high of 44,498.60 points on May 30, days before the next policy meeting of the … Read more