Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Food prices bite, pain to worsen as weak Re stings

........Late on Monday, the Reserve Bank of India  moved in to check speculation in the currency market and fixed a daily limit on how much banks can borrow from the central bank - 1% of banks' deposit base or Rs. 75,000 crore, for the entire banking system. If a bank requires more funds, it can borrow emergency money using the marginal standing facility (MSF) at sharply costlier 10.25% from 8.25% earlier. Higher prices have hurt family budgets hard, especially at a time when firms, squeezed by costly input and borrowing costs, have offered meagre salary hikes and are holding back expansion and hiring..............

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