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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
TopicMonetary policy

Topic: monetary policy

Recessions can be predicted years in advance, say experts

Noah Smith -
Cracking the code of booms and busts will allow central banks, regulators & policy makers to stave off crises instead of cleaning up afterwards. 

Inflation concerns after oil price surge spark first RBI interest rate hike in four years

PTI -
With all six members voting for an increase in rates, the Monetary Policy Committee, raised the repo rate by 25 basis points, RBI said.

India can kiss goodbye to 8 per cent growth if it does not fix its banks

TN Ninan -
The financial system is still a drag on the economy and underlines the need for improving banking practice, regulation and oversight.

Minutes of RBI policy meeting indicate an interest rate increase, not a cut

Anirban Nag -
Despite lowering inflation projections just two weeks ago, the tone of the minutes show the debate was veering toward a possible interest rate increase and...

Consumer confidence in India falls in Q1 of 2018, remains below pre-demonetisation levels

Nikhil Rampal -
Consumer confidence index had seen the steepest fall post demonetisation and hasn’t come back to November 2016 level even in 2018.

RBI Paints a ‘Goldilocks’ Economy as Trade War Looms

Anirban Nag -
Investment banks such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. expect India to grow at 7.6 %. The pace is probably insufficient for PM Narendra Modi to create enough jobs in time for the national elections due next year.

RBI expected to keep policy rates unchanged despite easing inflation & recovering economy

Subrata Panda -
Opinion, however, is split on whether the central bank will tighten its stance in the later part of the year.

RBI keeps rates unchanged, but raises its inflation forecast

Anjali Shukla -
The central bank has raised its inflation forecast for the fourth quarter of the fiscal to 5.1 per cent

RBI keeps policy rates unchanged, revises inflation forecast for Q3 & Q4

Nikhil Rampal -
The repo rate remains at 6 per cent and the reverse repo rate at 5.75 per cent after improvement in growth numbers, due to inflationary pressures.

Interest rates only instrument for enhancing growth, says economist Surjit Bhalla

Divya Narayanan -
RBI to announce monetary policy today; interest rates tripled from 1.25 per cent to 3.2 in past 14 months, says Bhalla, a member of PM’s eco advisory panel.
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Opinion

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Triya Gulati -
Perhaps the clearest indicator of how shallow the tour was lies in how Luis Suárez and Rodrigo de Paul were treated. These aren’t random names.

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Economy

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

Keshav Padmanabhan -
November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

Defence

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Vaibhav Pant -
Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

National Interest

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Shekhar Gupta -
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.

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