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RBI Straddles Growth and Inflation Before Rate Announcement

The latest RBI macroeconomic survey (Oct 2011) precedes their announcement on monetary policy today. Key parts in their outlook: Growth risks have increased on ...

RBI Raises Rates 0.25%: Sep 16, 2011

RBI moves rates up in it’s mid quarter review by 25 bps (0.25%) to 8.25%. This is a continuing anti-inflation stance that RBI has, which means raising rates ...

Will The RBI Raise Rates Again?

On Friday, the Reserve Bank of India will release the mid-quarter review of Monetary Policy (12 noon). Will it raise rates again, after 11 consecutive rate ...

Why Only Interest Rates?

(From my Yahoo Piece) The Reserve Bank of India increased interest rates by 0.50% on Tuesday, going beyond the expected 0.25% estimate. The Repo rate is now at ...

RBI On Forex Rates and CRR Hikes

I wrote at Yahoo about "Why Only Interest Rates?" (Will post article tomorrow). I just noticed that the RBI released an audio recording of a ...

364 Day T-Bill Auctions Go Higher Than 10-yr bonds

Yesterday’s T-Bill auctions were the first after the rate hike and there has been a spike (Only 91 day and 364 day t-bills were auctioned yesterday, 182 ...

RBI Hikes Interest Rates By 0.50%

The RBI increased Repo rates to 8% (from 7.50%), a 50 basis point increase. Repo is what banks pay to borrow overnight from the RBI, a key rate that is usually ...

Will the RBI Hike Rates Today?

Look at the first point in the First Quarter Review: Taming inflation warrants continuation of anti-inflationary monetary stance Inflation risks stay, while ...

Interest Rate Hiking Time WorldWide

The ECB raised interest rates by 25bps (or 0.25%) to 1.5%. China recently raised rates, by 25bps, to 6.56%. Sweden also pushed its rates up to 2%, while ...

Inverting Yield Curves in India and Brazil

From CNBC: Brazil’s and India’s government yield curves are inverting, a condition in which short-term rates rise above longer yields. ...