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Chief economist update: Premature easing will cost more lives, more rupiahs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... Rupiah 20 lakh crore (trillion) -- USD 260 billion - equivalent to 10% of Indian GDP, on May 12. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) also went to work, cutting its benchmark repo rate and the reverse repo rate by 75 bps each to 4.4% and 4.15%, respectively ...

Chief economist update: Bonds do the limbo rock

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
... in April this year. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ), the Bank of Thailand (BOT) and the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) surprise moves towards increased monetary policy accommodation on August 7 supports the bond markets' dim view over the ...

Chief economist update: Race to the bottom redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... keep rates unchanged. This was the central bank's first interest rate cut since April 2015. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reduced its repo rate by 35 bps to 5.4%, greater than market expectations for a 25 bps cut and the fourth cut this year. The ...

Chief economist update: The RBI surprises (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
... rates, it didn't. When everyone expected interest rates to remain steady, it cut. Recall that back in October 2018, the RBI surprised markets by keeping interest rates unchanged - repo rate at 6.5%, reverse repo rate at 6.25% - at the conclusion ...

Chief economist update: An Indian surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2018
Just when we thought the times of central bank surprises were things of the past, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) brought them back. The RBI kept interest rates unchanged - repo rate at 6.5%, reverse repo rate at 6.25% - at the conclusion of its October ...

Chief economist update: No target sign on India's back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... 1.0% of its total exports, respectively, as at 2017. Tariff increase away! This gives India and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) scope to focus more on the goings-on in the domestic economy more than shackled by the on-going trade war uncertainty. So ...

Gesundheit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
... (20.0%), Malaysia (9.5%), Indonesia (13.7%) and Italy (13.6%). It therefore came as no surprise when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept policy steady - repo rate at 6.0% and reverse repo at 5.75% - when it met on the February 7 (right in the midst ...

India's upside risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... August 2016 to head off the potential negative fall-out from Brexit win of June of the same year - the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) did the same in August this year in order to cushion any adverse impact of the goods and services tax implemented on 1 ...

ECB disengages from currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
One thing stood out when the Reserve Banks of India (RBI), Australia (RBA) and New Zealand (RBNZ) conducted their monetary policy meetings in August, and that is... they all want a lower exchange rate (please sir). Both the RBA and the RBNZ kept interest ...

RBI succumbs to low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut interest rates by 25 basis points - repo rate to 6% (the first reduction in 10 months and the lowest rate since October 2010) and the reverse repo rate to 5.75% (reversing the 25 bps hike announced only four months ...
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