Thursday, April 17, 2014

There goes the rate cut

...............It remains unclear why the government doesn’t dump FCI’s bulging stocks in the market, given how cereal inflation is a stubborn 9-10%. Also, sooner rather than later, the government needs to address the issue of whether it is accepting the Urjit Patel committee’s recommendations—as long as RBI remains wedded to Patel’s 8% CPI inflation target by January 2015 and 6% by January 2016, it is not going to cut interest rates.

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