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Economy Watch: December 2010
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Thursday, December 16, 2010. India's central bank takes a breather. The RBI has taken a breather after following the aggressive tightening path since beginning-CY10. As headline inflation has started softening, managing liquidity seems to have become the main focus area for the RBI. We expect further tightening in policy rates, in FY12. Key policy rates remain unchanged. Liquidity to remain tight. RBI retains broad projections. The RBI has kept the FY11 GDP growth projection at 8.5%. As regar...
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Economy Watch: September 2011
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Thursday, September 15, 2011. Here we go again! Petrol prices have been hiked by Rs 3.14 a litre due to a sharp 8% depreciation in rupee in last one and a half months. The petrol price hike decision is coming a day before the RBI’s mid-quarter monetary policy meet tomorrow. However, the impact of the petrol price hike on WPI inflation is going to be merely 7 bp. So lesson for the RBI: One should learn from ones mistakes. Links to this post. Labels: impact on inflation. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Economy Watch: Cost of loan likely to increase further as the RBI up the policy rate
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Thursday, March 17, 2011. Cost of loan likely to increase further as the RBI up the policy rate. Continuing with its calibrated monetary tightening cycle, the RBI today hiked the repo and reverse repo rates by 25bps each. This is a reaction to the high and sticky inflation, which continues to be nearly double the medium-term target of the RBI since Jan ’10. RBI now projects WPI inflation at 8% by end-Mar ’11. Labels: inflation in india. RBI’s monetary policy. April 29, 2011 at 9:01 AM. Cost of loan likel...
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Economy Watch: India’s services sector: The last bastion also under siege
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Sunday, September 2, 2012. India’s services sector: The last bastion also under siege. Indian economy has been undergoing a serious economic downturn for last one year. It’s GDP in 1QFY13 grew merely 5.5%, marginally higher than 5.3% in the previous quarter. The bad news is that the services sector, which contributes near 60% of India’s GDP, is getting impacted by the severe slowdown in the manufacturing sector. 65279;. India's services sector facing a tough time. 65279; . View my complete profile.
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Economy Watch: October 2012
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012. Easing though liquidity route to continue, 100bps cut in repo rate in 2013. The RBI has revised its FY13 GDP forecast downward to 5.8% from 6.5% in Jul ’12 policy. The WPI inflation target for Mar’13 has been revised to 7.5%, from 7% earlier. Both deposit and non-food credit growth has been revised downward by 100bps to 15% and 16%, respectively. 100bps cut in repo rate in CY13. Links to this post. Labels: 100bps cut in repo rate. RBI’s monetary policy. View my complete profile.
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Economy Watch: India's central bank takes a breather
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Thursday, December 16, 2010. India's central bank takes a breather. The RBI has taken a breather after following the aggressive tightening path since beginning-CY10. As headline inflation has started softening, managing liquidity seems to have become the main focus area for the RBI. We expect further tightening in policy rates, in FY12. Key policy rates remain unchanged. Liquidity to remain tight. RBI retains broad projections. The RBI has kept the FY11 GDP growth projection at 8.5%. As regar...
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Economy Watch: India’s current a/c deficit narrows on record high software exports
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Thursday, March 31, 2011. India’s current a/c deficit narrows on record high software exports. India’s current account deficit. April 2, 2011 at 3:47 AM. This is really a good stuff, This sounds good. I like it. Photo Recovery. July 21, 2011 at 2:35 AM. Hey thanks for your feedback.I appreciate it! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Economist with one of India's biggest conglomerates. In free time I enjoy reading, playing Badminton, trekking. View my complete profile. Follow me on Twitter.
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Economy Watch: May 2011
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Indian economy: Growth slowdown or a transitory dip? Indian economy grew 7.8% in the fourth quarter of FY11 (Apr-Mar), following 8.3% growth in the previous quarter. For full year FY11, GDP grew 8.5% as against 8% during FY10. The agriculture sector saw strong growth of 6.6% in. QFY11, the highest in last seven years . Ironically, agriculture sector has been a great savor for Indian economic growth in FY11. Both the major crops ( kharif. Therefore, according to me, strong private c...
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Economy Watch: December 2009
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Thursday, December 10, 2009. Food prices on fire, I see some actions coming from the RBI. 61550; Primary articles inflation up. For the week ended 28th Nov ’09, the annual rate of inflation for primary articles stood at 13.9% (yoy) against 12.5% for the previous week and 11.6% during the corresponding week last year. 61550; Food inflation at a decadal high. 61550; What’s the outcome? Links to this post. Labels: Food inflation in india. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Economy Watch: July 2010
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010. India moving ahead of peers by adopting hawkish stance on monetary policy. Though the RBI seems sanguine on the economic recovery front, it showed deep concerned about the high inflation in the economy. The central bank increased the economic growth forecast for fiscal year 2010-11 to 8.5% from 8% earlier and the year-end inflation target to 6% from 5.5% earlier. Links to this post. RBI’s monetary policy. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Follow me on Twitter.
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