Monetary Policy Committee meets: Repo rate reduces to 4%

On May 22, 2020, the policy committee met in an emergency meeting to review the current economic outlook and impacts of COVID-19. Highlights The RBI has reduced the repo rate from 4.4% to 4%. It has reduced the reverse repo ..

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2020

RBI cuts Reverse Repo rate to 3.75%, Rs 50,000 crores for LTRO 2.0

On April 17, 2020, the Reserve Bank of India announced a slew of measures after GoI extended the lock down till May 3, 3030. The Apex bank cut the reverse repo rate to 3.75%. It cut the repo rate to ..

Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020

RBI: Cuts repo rate to 4.4%; CRR to 3%; 3-month moratorium allowed on all loans

On March 27, 2020, the Reserve Bank of India announced series of measures to counter economic slowdown caused due to COVID-19. The Central bank advanced its Monetary Policy Committee meet due to COVID-19 pandemic. This was the 7th Bi-Monthly Monetary ..

Month: Current Affairs - March, 2020

RBI fifth bi-monthly Monetary Policy released

The Reserve Bank of India on December 5, 2019, released its fifth bi-monthly monetary policy statement for the year 2019-20. Highlights According to the policy, the repo rate was unchanged at 5.15%. Last time, it was cut by 135 basis ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2019

RBI reduces repo rate by 35 basis points to 5.40%

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its third Bi-monthly Monetary Policy review for financial year 2019-20 has reduced its key policy rate (repo rate) by an unorthodox 35 basis points to 5.40%. This takes the benchmark lending rate to a ..

Month: Current Affairs - August, 2019

RBI Monetary Policy review: Repo rate lowest since 2010

The Reserve bank of India (RBI) in its bi-monthly monetary policy review reduced repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.75% from current 6.0% with immediate effect. This is RBI’s third cut this year and has reduced Repo rate at ..

Month: Current Affairs - June, 2019

RBI Monetary Policy Review

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced the second bi-monthly monetary policy statement for 2019-20. The key decisions reflected in the Monetary Policy statement are: Repo rate reduced to 5.75 per cent from the current 6per cent. Similarly, the ..

RBI Sixth bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement 2018-19: Key Facts

The important facts related to the RBI’s sixth bi-monthly monetary policy statement for 2018-19 is listed below: RBI has relaxed the CPI or retail inflation forecasts for India in FY20. Because of the low inflation forecasts, RBI has decided to ..

Month: Current Affairs - February, 2019

RBI’s Monetary Policy Review: RBI Hikes Repo Rate to 6.25%

On June 6, 2018, the six members Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of RBI has decided to hike Repo (short term lending rate) to 6.25% from 6.00%. As per the second Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement, the current policy rates of RBI ..

Month: Current Affairs - June, 2018

What is a Contractionary Policy?

Contractionary Policy refers to the monetary policy which aims to slow down the economy by introducing a reduction in money supply for lesser money and investment. There are many economic tools used by the Central Bank of every nation like ..