As expected, the monetary policy committee of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its October review meeting decided to keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent, maintaining status quo for the fourth straight occasion. The repo rate is the rate of interest at which the RBI lends to other banks. At […]
Finance Secretary T V Somanathan said that the retail inflation in India is expected to ease by December, attributing it to more favorable seasonal factors, the news agency Reuters reported. Despite staying above the upper limit of the central bank’s 2-6 per cent tolerance band for the second consecutive month in August, retail inflation has […]
India’s wholesale price index (INWPI=ECI) fell 0.52 per cent in August from a year earlier, according to government data released on Thursday. Economists polled by Reuters had estimated the wholesale price index for August would fall 0.6 per cent. It fell 1.36 per cent in July. In August, fuel and power prices fell 6.03 per […]
Morgan Stanley expects retail inflation to moderate to Reserve Bank of India’s 6 per cent upper tolerance target only from November. Retail inflation in India rose sharply in July to 7.44 per cent and in the process breached RBI’s 6 per cent upper tolerance target, largely due to a sharp spurt in vegetable, fruit, and […]
US Federal Reserve Governor Michelle W Bowman has said an additional interest rate increase will likely be needed to get inflation on a path down to its 2 per cent target. The US central bank in its July meeting raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points, the highest in the past 22 years […]
Bucking the trend, retail inflation in India rose considerably in June to 4.81 per cent, largely due to a sharp spurt in vegetable prices. The inflation index for rural and urban was 4.72 per cent and 4.96 per cent, respectively. Back in May, the retail inflation was at 4.25 per cent, hitting a two-year low. It […]
