Indian stock indices traded in the red Friday, a day after the Reserve Bank of India flagged concerns about possible inflationary pressures in the near term.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A monetary policy committee headed by RBI governor Shaktikanta Das will hold a three-day-long meeting with its decision be announced on June 8 (Thursday).
Indian stock indices traded on a positive note Monday morning, extending gains from the previous week on expectations that the RBI will continue to keep the repo rate unchanged in its upcoming monetary policy review meet later this week.
The Reserve Bank of India, in its first monetary policy review meeting in 2023-24, decided to keep the key benchmark interest rate - the repo rate - unchanged at 6.5 per cent.