With the economy facing a slowdown, the Reserve Bank of India Wednesday cut the repo rate by 35 basis points in its fourth consecutive policy rate cut this year.
The IMF urged central bankers and other policy makers to be ready with more stimulus if a global economy already slowed by a trade war downshifts significantly further.
The union budget has to be presented in July, giving the new finance minister a very short time to take key decisions on taxes, expenditure and borrowing.
The minerals that Pakistan purports to offer to the US are either in quantities too small to matter, of a type that the US does not need, or would be much more easily sourced from other partners.
Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
Promoting growth is not the RBI’s primary responsibility. As someone who was on TV almost each evening after 8 November 2016, Governor Das is aware of what set off the downward spiral in the economy. The repo rate is down to 5.4%. Unclear how much further it can go. The RBI should study the graph of household savings, which feed the credit cycle. Britannia – what Shri Shivam Vij calls Slow Moving Consumer Goods – is selling fewer packs of biscuits. Amidst this desolate wasteland, what is the traction that a final rate cut of 35 basis points will have on the real economy, whether its slowdown is structural or cyclical.
Promoting growth is not the RBI’s primary responsibility. As someone who was on TV almost each evening after 8 November 2016, Governor Das is aware of what set off the downward spiral in the economy. The repo rate is down to 5.4%. Unclear how much further it can go. The RBI should study the graph of household savings, which feed the credit cycle. Britannia – what Shri Shivam Vij calls Slow Moving Consumer Goods – is selling fewer packs of biscuits. Amidst this desolate wasteland, what is the traction that a final rate cut of 35 basis points will have on the real economy, whether its slowdown is structural or cyclical.