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RBI monetary policy review: Repo rate kept unchanged at 6%; highlights

Reserve Bank of India has maintained the status-quo on the key short-term borrowing rate (repo) in its last three policy meets

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Urjit Patel, Governor, RBI during a press conference announcing the RBI monetary policy in Mumbai on Wednesday | Photo: Kamlesh Pednekar

BS Web Team New Delhi
In its first bi-monthly monetary policy review of 2018-19, the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) six-member monetary policy committee (MPC), headed by Governor Urjit Patel, on Thursday kept unchanged the key repo rate at 6 per cent and cash reserve ratio at 4 per cent. Also, the reverse repo rate was kept unchanged at 5.75 per cent.

The MPC, which started its 2-day meeting on Wednesday amid little hope of a rate cut, given a hardening in global crude oil prices, voted 5-1 in favour of the status quo in policy rates. The only member of the MPC to