Category: Economy
India has a 1% GDP opportunity. It’s hiding in plain sight
India could unlock a productivity opportunity equivalent to 1 per cent of GDP by improving how it maintains industrial equipment and infrastructure, recovering output lost…
India-bound sunflower oil cargoes face cancellation, delays as war disrupts Russian shipments
MUMBAI: A shipment of Russian sunflower oil bound for India was cancelled and other cargoes have been delayed after attacks on Black Sea ports disrupted…
RBI Policy: Complex oil math explains rise in FY27 inflation estimates
Kolkata: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has revised its assumption on crude oil price upward to $95 a barrel for the second half of…
RBI may hike interest rate further in December policy: Experts
New Delhi: With the RBI changing its monetary policy stance from ‘neutral’ to ‘calibrated tightening ‘, experts on Wednesday said that the central bank would…
A new rate game begins. What’s inside the RBI’s new playbook?
The RBI’s October policy marks a clean break from the easing cycle that began last year. The 25-basis-point increase takes the repo rate to 5.5%,…
MDR a small fee, will not have major impact on UPI volumes: RBI Guv Malhotra
Mumbai: Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Wednesday said levying a “small fee” in the form of merchant discount rate (MDR) will not…
India’s FX reserves fall for fourth week, down $50 billion from September peak
Mumbai: India’s foreign exchange reserves fell for a fourth consecutive week to $734.6 billion, according to a footnote to Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay…
GST Council to consider 17-day refund timeline, faster registrations
The GST Council, meeting Thursday, will seek to slash the refund period to around 17 days, which will include a maximum 10 days for acknowledgement,…
More RBI rate hikes loading? Decoding what Malhotra’s ‘caliberated tightening’ stance means
After cutting rates by 125 basis points in 2025 and then keeping the repo rate unchanged at 5.25% for four straight policy reviews, the Reserve…
RBI MPC Key Takeaways 2026: Repo rate hiked to 5.50%, FY27 GDP growth forecast raised to 7.1%
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), headed by Governor Sanjay Malhotra, raised the policy repo rate by 25 basis points to…