MPC Minutes

RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra emphasised to remain watchful and wary about the generalisation of inflation in the coming months, while voting for status quo on interest rates earlier this month, according to MPC minutes. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday released the minutes of meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) held during June 3-5. Other five members of the panel too voted for keeping the benchmark interest interest rate unchanged. The RBI kept the repo rate unchanged at 5.25 per cent and also announced a raft of measures to attract foreign capital and support the rupee amid growing risks to growth and inflation from the prolonged West Asia conflict. Malhotra opined that there was high uncertainty in the assumptions made for projections of both inflation and growth on account of several reasons the duration of the conflict and the disruption in supply chains, the intensity and geographical spread of monsoon and its impact on energy, food and other commodity ..

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Reserve Bank Governor Sanjay Malhotra opined that rate reduction was an appropriate monetary policy response at this juncture citing movement of inflation towards the central bank's 4 per cent target, said the MPC meeting minutes released on Friday. Malhotra, along with five other members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) had voted for a 25 basis points reduction in the short-term lending rate (repo) to 6.25 per cent. The RBI at its meeting held from February 5 to 7 effected the rate cut after a gap of five years. "Given the macroeconomic outlook when inflation is expected to align with the target, and recognising that monetary policy is forward-looking, I view a lower policy rate to be more appropriate at the current juncture," Malhotra said, according to the minutes. Chairing his first MPC meeting, he had also pointed out that rising uncertainties on global financial markets and trade policy front, coupled with continuing risk of adverse weather events pose risks to the ...

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The MPC, which has three members from the central bank and three external members, kept the repo rate unchanged at 6.50% in an unanimous decision

Meanwhile, government bond yields inched up slightly, tracking a rise in US Treasury yields

External members, however, point out high real rate, minutes show

The continuing global uncertainity has complicated the fight against inflation, opined Reserve Bank Deputy Governor Michael Debabrata Patra during the Monetary Policy Committee meeting held on February 8. According to the minutes of the MPC meeting released on Wednesday, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das also mentioned that there is considerable uncertainty due to a host of global factors such as rising non-oil commodity prices. The RBI on February 8 hiked the key short-term lending rate by 25 basis points to 6.5 per cent, citing sticky core inflation. It was the sixth interest rate hike by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) since May last year, taking the total quantum of increase to 250 basis points. "The fight against inflation is complicated by the global outlook. There is some consensus growing around a milder slowdown than earlier feared, although geographical disparities complicate the prognosis. Be that as it may, the outlook for global inflation is turning more uncertain than ...

While two of the eminent panelists - Ghosh and Nayar - said they expect a pause in the monetary cycle by the MPC, Chakraborty, Sagar, and Kapoor said the MPC could still hike by 25-50 basis points

Governor Das said due to persistent core inflation, there is no room for complacency and the battle against inflation is not over

MPC minutes show Das saying that in a tightening cycle, especially in a world of high uncertainty, giving out explicit forward guidance on the future path of monetary policy would be counterproductive

1-year bond yield logs the sharpest fall in two-and-a-half months

The next review of the monetary policy committee is scheduled on December 5-7

The MPC is of the view that further calibrated monetary policy action is warranted to keep inflation expectations anchored

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Either inflation has to come down on its own or we will have to raise the rate, or it will be a combination of the two, says MPC member Varma