The US economy is unlikely to enter into a recession in 2023, minutes of the Federal Reserve’s July monetary policy review meeting showed, and noted that spending and real activities had improved after the banking crisis experienced earlier this year.
While speaking to ANI, Onkar Chand Sharma, Principal Secretary, Disaster Management, said that due to the incessant rainfall from August 13-15, a total of 71 people have died and that so far, a monetary loss of around Rs 7,500 crore has been reported in this year's monsoon season.
As part of its continuous bid to deepen the reach and use of digital payments in the country, the Reserve Bank of India on Thursday proposed to enhance the per transaction limit for UPI Lite digital payments in off-line mode from Rs 200 to Rs 500.
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das, as part of its post monetary policy meeting remarks earlier today, said it will enable users to engage in conversation with AI-powered systems to make payments.
The Reserve Bank of India in its three-day monetary policy committee meeting unanimously decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent – for the third time in a row, something most financial market experts had expected.
The Reserve Bank of India has upwardly revised the country’s retail inflation projections for 2023-24 at 5.4 per cent, against 5.1 per cent it projected in its previous monetary policy meeting in June.
The Reserve Bank of India in its three-day monetary policy committee meeting unanimously decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent, something most financial markets had expected.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has sought an explanation from the Pakistan government for not imposing a tax on big shops measuring 1,000 square feet, ARY News reported.
In its previous meeting in early June, the central bank’s monetary policy committee unanimously decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent, something most analysts had expected. The RBI in its April meeting too had paused the repo rate.
The risks attached to the International Monetary Fund's billion Standby Arrangement (SBA) program will increase as the tenure of caretaker can be extended after the approval of the digital census.
SBI Research expects the Reserve Bank of India to again put a pause on the key policy rates as the central bank’s third monetary policy committee meeting is currently underway. The outcome of the review meeting will be announced on Thursday morning.