Tag: Reserve Bank

Mumbai: The Indian equity markets traded on a flat-to-positive note during the early-morning trade session on Tuesday, as caution prevailed ahead of the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meet. According to market observers, other factors such as low volumes in the highly expensive market conditions eroded investors’ risk-taking appetite. The 30-scrip Sensitive […]

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank today retained the GDP forecast for the current fiscal at 7.4 per cent on robust corporate earnings and buoyant rural demand, though it flagged global trade tensions for Indian exports. In the third bi-monthly monetary policy statement for 2018-19, RBI said various indicators suggest that economic activity has continued to be […]

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank today slashed benchmark lending rate by 0.25 per cent to 6 per cent citing reduction in upside risk to inflation, a move that will lower EMIs for home, auto and personal loans. This is the first rate cut since October 2016 and the interest rate is now at 6-year low. In line […]

Mumbai: The Indian rupee Monday appreciated by another 44 paise to close at 69.26 to the US dollar in line with an intense rally in domestic equities amid hopes of a rate cut by the Reserve Bank. The domestic currency opened strong at 69.48 and later rose to the day’s high of 69.10 at the […]

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday proposed to establish an organisation to provide credit enhancement for infrastructure and housing projects with an aim to enhance fund flows towards such projects. Announcing steps to prop up the slowing economy, the minister said that in order to improve domestic bond market, the finance ministry will […]

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank has introduced a new type of prepaid payment instrument (PPI) which could be used only for the purchase of goods and services up to a limit of Rs 10,000 per month. “To give impetus to small value digital payments and for enhanced user experience, it has been decided to introduce a new […]

New Delhi: Ahead of the announcement of interest rates on small savings schemes for the January-March quarter by December 31, the RBI has asked the Finance ministry to align their interest rates with market rates which govern the banks also in a bid to improve transmission. “The ministry has been internally sounded out and communicated […]