Saturday, April 27, 2013

As bond yields soften, banks see arbitrage opportunity

Banks are taking an arbitrage advantage by borrowing from the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) daily Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) and using the money to buy government securities, as yields on the latter have softened in the hope of a steep rate cut by the central bank during the annual monetary policy review on May 3.................

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