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Sunday, September 21, 2025
TopicRate cuts

Topic: Rate cuts

Retail inflation at 16-month high, will limit RBI from stopping growth slide via rate cuts

In October, retail inflation registered at 4.62%, far higher than the 4% target that RBI’s monetary policy committee is bound to by law.

Global economy’s in a better place after US Fed rate cuts, trade deal hope: Raghuram Rajan

The US Fed last month cut interest rates for a third time this year, citing a combination of trade-policy uncertainty, slowing global growth & below-target inflation.

RBI set to cut rates tomorrow amid worries over crises at PMC, Lakshmi Vilas Bank

RBI is set to lower its benchmark rate for fifth time this year Friday, days after it reassured the public that banking system is safe and stable.

Case for India’s overseas bond sale builds up with latest tax cut

Now would be a good time for the govt to revisit the sovereign bonds sale as the corporate tax cut sent the benchmark bond yield surging the most since February 2017.

India’s growth forecasts being lowered, more interest rate cuts predicted

Goldman Sachs & Citigroup lowered growth projections to 6% for FY20, while Oxford Economics said there’s a risk the expansion could be weaker than that.

RBI’s unusual rate cut adds uncertainty to economists dealing with India’s dodgy data

Departure from conventional moves – multiples of 25 bps – leaves door open for more surprises as RBI has history of catching investors on wrong foot.

Have RBI rate cuts lost their ability to boost economic growth?

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.

More interest rate cuts will depend on economic data, RBI governor Shaktikanta Das says

Das says he sees signs of recovery in growth & that RBI’s switch to accommodative stance in June in itself amounts to a 25 basis-point cut.

RBI stops short of specific steps to resolve crisis in NBFCs

RBI only said the central bank is closely monitoring NBFC sector & is ready to take ‘whatever steps are required’ to ensure financial stability.

Sensex crashes 554 points as RBI rate cut fails to calm investors’ NBFC sector concerns

Traders said the market was awaiting specific steps to shore up liquidity and address the crisis of confidence in the troubled Non Banking Financial Company (NBFC) sector.

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Ahmedabad’s Calico Museum took away my phone. And then something magical happened

Without my phone, I wasn't thinking about capturing some beautiful textiles for my ‘inspiration gallery’. I was fully present, taking in the colours and patterns on display.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.