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Wednesday, March 18, 2026
TopicRate hikes

Topic: Rate hikes

Shares rise 1% as RBI eases inflation fears

Rate hike fears were soothed after RBI said inflation looked to ease and as risk sentiment improved globally on UK's fiscal policy U-turn.

RBI’s rate hikes to have limited impact on Indian banks’ profits, rating agency Moody’s says

Hikes this year to combat inflation will only lift net interest margins. The agency also added that banks' profitability would be reduced by losses on government securities holdings.

Rate hikes lead to speculation that Asian central banks may not stop soon

Central banks raising rates in Asia have prompted bets on continuing hikes in swap markets.

Chief economic adviser flags US rate hikes, oil prices as headwinds for Indian economy

V. Anantha Nageswaran says he is surprised by Fed's hawkishness in hiking rates. With US inflation hitting 4-decade high in February, Fed raised rates in March and plans more hikes.

RBI will go slow on raising rates, says investor who foresaw liquidity crisis

Suyash Choudhary of IDFC says RBI will risk financial stability and seriously hurt growth if it adds to the two rate increases since June.

On Camera

War in West Asia shows India must rethink tech sovereignty

Iran’s strikes on data centres in the UAE and Bahrain brings tech policy into focus. The war threatens the web of global connectivity that flows through these hubs.

Covid, sanctions, war. Life’s rough for Surat’s small diamond units, salaries ‘not guaranteed anymore’

West Asia war threatens to push already fragile industry deeper into crisis. Latest disruption is playing out differently for bigger and small-scale players in Surat’s diamond industry.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.