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Bond market upbeat with RBI on back foot as Covid-19 infections surge

Status quo on rates likely to be maintained for some time

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RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das likes to restore calm when yields shoot up, he will have less reason to engage with the market from the policy platform, as he had done in the past.

Anup Roy Mumbai
With partial lockdowns being announced in parts of the country, notably in Mumbai and Delhi, the bond market feels the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will be in no mood to tinker with its rates or accommodative stance for some time to come.
 
Depending on the course of the fresh surge in Covid-19 cases — daily infections have touched 100,000 — investors might expect a rate cut. But that is unlikely in the policy to be announced by the monetary policy committee on Wednesday.
 
The bond market has already started cheering the possibility of a prolonged status quo