Despite inflation falling below the apex bank's target of 4 per cent for the past two months, the policy rates will not change in the MPC meeting commencing on October 7, as per BoB report.
RBI monetary policy aims to realize the medium-term target of 4 % for consumer price index (CPI) inflation with a range of plus or minus two percent.
RBI monetary policy: The RBI expects growth in the first quarter of the current fiscal at 16.2 per cent, which will taper to 4 per cent by the fourth quarter.
The latest RBI action follows the Bank of England raising rate by 50 basis points, the biggest hike in 27 years, to 1.75 per cent.
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said the monetary policy committee decided to hold the lending rate, or the repo rate, steady at 4 per cent, and its reverse repo, or the rate at which it absorbs excess cash from lenders - unchanged at 3.35 per cent.
Despite GDP and industrial growth rates being fragile and volatile, the RBI is likely to start raising the policy rate in the near future by up to 100 bps in 2022.
If the RBI maintains status quo in policy rates on Wednesday, it would be the ninth consecutive time since the rate remains unchanged. The central bank had last revised the policy rate on May 22, 2020, in an off-policy cycle to perk up demand by cutting interest rate to a historic low.
The Reserve Bank had last cut repo rate by 40 basis points in May 2020 to 4 per cent to spur demand in the COVID-hit economy. Since then, the RBI has refrained from taking any action on interest rates.
In the previous Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting in June, the RB''s CPI inflation projection for the current fiscal stood at 5.1 per cent.
The Reserve Bank of India has maintained status quo fifth time in a row on policy rate. The bank has kept repo unchanged at 4 per cent.
The RBI is slated to announce its first bi-monthly monetary policy of the 2021-22 fiscal on April 7, 2021 after a three-day meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) headed by RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das.
CPI inflation rose sharply to 7.3 per cent in September and further to 7.6 per cent in October, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said while unveiling its bi-monthly monetary policy review.
Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted unanimously to keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent and continued with its accommodative stance to support growth. The committee, which has cut rates by 115 basis points since the Covid-19 crisis hit in March, has kept rates on hold since May.
Brickwork Ratings(BWR) in a report said that given the continued contraction of the economy, MPC is likely to continue with its accommodative monetary policy stance to manage financial stability and support growth recovery.
The Reserve Bank is likely to keep the benchmark interest rates unchanged in its next monetary policy review in view of heightened retail inflation which has persistently remained above its comfort level, feel experts.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee decided to hold key policy rates unchanged at existing levels on Friday amid high inflation, said Governor Shaktikanta Das. Three new external members in the panel voted in today's decision.
The newly-constituted Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank began its three-day deliberations on Wednesday, amid expectations that the central bank will maintain status quo on the benchmark lending rates in view of hardening inflation.
The six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) headed by the RBI Governor is scheduled to announce its decision on August 6.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das addressed a press conference on Friday. The briefing comes days after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had given the details of the Rs 20 lakh crore economic relief package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week.
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