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Monsoon Augurs Well For Rural Demand, RBI Rate Cut: BofAML
According to Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML), good rains support the case for a 25 bps RBI rate cut on August 2 and June CPI is expected to slip below 2 per cent with food prices still falling.
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‘Cooling Food Inflation To Pull June CPI To Sub-2 Per Cent’
We have grown more confident of our call for a 25 bps RBI rate cut on August 2 with CPI inflation falling to 2.2 per cent in May from 3 per cent in April, says Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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Sensex Recovers Partially, Moves Up 102 Points On Inflation Cheer
Buying picked up on positive economic data after retail inflation fell to a record low of 2.18 per cent in May, from 2.99 per cent in April.
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Loan Waiver Spectre Stumps Sensex, Shaves Off 166 Points
Investors remained on the sidelines as they waited for key macroeconomic data - IIP and inflation - amid a fall in global peers.
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Sensex Plunges 156 Points, Focus Shifts To Macro Data
Asian shares traded in the negative territory after polls in the UK threw up a hung Parliament and markets await the results of the first round of France's parliamentary elections.
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RBI Lowers Growth Forecast To 7.3% For FY18
The Reserve Bank marginally lowered the economic growth forecast for the current fiscal to 7.3 per cent even as it hoped that remonetisation would enable pick-up in consumer spending, especially in the cash-intensive segments
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RBI Leaves Policy Rate Unchanged, Cuts Inflation Projection
The Reserve Bank of India keeps its policy repo rate unchanged at 6.25 per cent, as widely expected, while lowering its projections for inflation after recent data showed consumer prices rising more slowly
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MPC Meet Begins; RBI Likely To Hold Policy Rate
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), headed by RBI Governor Urjit Patel, began its 2-day meeting amid experts saying that the central bank is likely to hold key rates even as the government is making a case for a lower interest regime citing low inflation
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FM Makes Case For Rate Cut; Experts Say RBI May Wait For GST
Retail inflation, based on Consumer Price Index (CPI), dropped to multi-year low at 2.99 per cent in April over last year, mainly due to lower cost of food items, including pulses and vegetables.
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Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund Bets On RBI Overestimating Inflation Threat
Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund, has stacked up holdings of longer-dated paper in a bold, contrarian bet that central bank policy makers are wrong to expect an acceleration in inflation
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RBI Unlikely To Cut Rates, Says Icra
Given the ebbing inflation risks, the agency also expects the tone of the policy statement and the MPC minutes to be less hawkish than the one in April.
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RBI On Hold For Now, 50 Bps Rate Hike Likely In 2018: Nomura
The Reserve Bank is expected to keep rates on hold this year as near-term inflation outlook is benign, but a cumulative 50 bps hike in 2018 is likely as growth accelerates, says a report
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India’s April Retail Inflation Seen Easing To 3-Month Low
India’s consumer inflation is expected to have eased to a three-month low in April, helped by smaller rises in food prices, but with a summer rebound in prospect the Reserve Bank of India is likely to keep interest rates on hold
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