The Reserve Bank of India has recently flagged a troubling trend ~ rising asymmetries in the shortterm money market rates that threaten the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission.
India's foreign exchange reserves witnessed a spike to USD 665.396 billion during the week ended March 28, the RBI said on Friday. The forex reserve increased for the fourth consecutive week, marking the highest level in nearly five months.
India has lost a towering figure in the Indian economic landscape, former Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh.
The global economy remained resilient in the first half of 2024, with declining inflation supporting household spending, it said in its October Bulletin.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das at the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting on Friday announced the policy rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent.
“The path-breaking structural reforms, such as the enactment of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) and the adoption of Flexible Inflation Targeting in the recent years, have helped us to deal with the challenges in the banking system and the task of maintaining price stability more effectively,” he said.
In the throes of economic dynamism, India finds itself at the intersection of contrasting forces, with its annual retail inflation surging to a four-month high in December.
Intolerance of economic crimes is not unique to India; Bernard Madoff the mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme, worth an estimated $18 billion, was sentenced by a US court to 150 years in prison, making people wonder if financial fraud was worse than violent crimes like rape and murder.
The Reserve Bank of India asked banks to be more transparent in resetting interest rates and EMIs of floating-rate home loans under the external benchmark-based lending rate (EBLR) mechanism.
As predicted by economists, the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) did not change the repo rate from…
