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Is there a chink in India's industrial armoury? RBI MPC's Nagesh Kumar explains why a 25-bps rate cut is needed
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Is there a chink in India’s industrial armoury? RBI MPC’s Nagesh Kumar explains why a 25-bps rate cut is needed

Nagesh Kumar, the newest member of the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), has pointed to demand deficits in both domestic and international…

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India rate cuts seen delayed to 2025 after Sept inflation spike, say economists
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India rate cuts seen delayed to 2025 after Sept inflation spike, say economists

A sharp jump in India’s retail inflation for September has prompted several economists to push back domestic rate cut bets to the first-half of 2025…

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Market expects RBI to kickstart easing with a shallow cut in December

The Reserve Bank of India’s decision to change its stance to ‘neutral’ from ‘withdrawal of accommodation’ has raised expectations of a shallow rate cut in…

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Dissent even in the newly constituted MPC
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Dissent even in the newly constituted MPC

One witnessed dissent even in the newly appointed external members of the monetary policy committee in their first vote to set policy rates though all…

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Why did the RBI shift to neutral? The predictions for the future
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Why did the RBI shift to neutral? The predictions for the future

The Reserve Bank of India-led Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on Wednesday retained repo rate, the key lending rate, at 6.5%. The decision wasn’t unanimous as…

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Repo Rate: One Last Time: Is RBI MPC setting the stage for rate cuts soon?
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Repo Rate: One Last Time: Is RBI MPC setting the stage for rate cuts soon?

The Reserve Bank of India-led Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) shifted its stance to neutral after a long period of withdrawal of accommodation stance while maintaining…

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RBI MPC Policy Rate decision nagesh kumar rate cut reserve bank of india Surprise Dissent! Who's the new rebel in RBI's monetary policy team?
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RBI MPC Policy Rate decision nagesh kumar rate cut reserve bank of india Surprise Dissent! Who’s the new rebel in RBI’s monetary policy team?

The Reserve Bank of India had on Oct 1 appointed Ram Singh, Saugata Bhattacharya and Nagesh Kumar as the new external members to the Reserve…

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The committee, however, changed its policy stance to "neutral" from "withdrawal of accommodation".
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RBI holds rates as expected, shifts stance to ‘neutral’: Experts weigh in

Oct 09, 2024 10:22 AM IST The RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), with three RBI and three external members, kept the repo rate unchanged at…

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RBI MPC: Home loan EMIs pinching hard? Let’s see what RBI is about say
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RBI MPC: Home loan EMIs pinching hard? Let’s see what RBI is about say

The Reserve Bank of India-led Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), headed by Governor Shaktikanta Das, is set to announce its interest rate decision on October 9…

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RBI MPC: A police officer walks past the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) logo inside its headquarters in Mumbai, India.(Reuters)
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Is RBI moving closer to a rate cut or will that happen in December?

India’s new monetary policy committee may lay the ground for an interest rate cut on Wednesday as a wave of global easing kicks off and…

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