Thursday, May 2, 2013

RBI to go for rate cut, project lower inflation, higher growth

............This will be RBI  Governor D.Subbarao’s fifth and last annual monetary policy since he took over the reins in September 2008 after the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. that plunged the world into an unprecedented credit crunch. In relative terms, this is possibly Subbarao’s easiest policy as low inflation and the even lower inflation outlook in the short term—because of a drop in crude and gold prices and insipid growth indicators—will help him make up his mind on the rate trajectory. Inflation is expected to rise only after he leaves the corner room at the Indian central bank’s headquarters on Mint Road in Mumbai in September.........

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