Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Low inflation gives RBI more space to cut rates: Rangarajan

..........." Inflation at around 6 percent gives scope for rate cut," Rangarajan said. The central bank has been maintaining tight monetary policy for the last three years to contain inflation.However, he admitted that even at 6%, inflation was high and it needed to be reduced further. RBI Governor D Subbarao will announce the Monetary Policy Statement for 2013- 14 on May 3. Earlier this month, even Finance Minister P Chidambaram had favoured further interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank as headline inflation has softened................

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