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Banks must focus on asset quality, capital for monetary policy impact: RBI

While asset quality issues have an impact on the credit growth of the economy, better capital position of banks can negate the effect

MARKETS: Indices end flat; Sensex slips 37 points, Nifty settles at 13,114

All that happened in the markets today

Best of BS Opinion: Vaccine story, RBI's stance on policy, and more

From RBI Monetary Policy Committee meet to regulation on online content, here is the best of BS Opinion

RBI likely to pause rate this fiscal, take call on liquidity surplus

Economists say inflation would average above 6 per cent this fiscal, and is unlikely to come down below 5 per cent before March.

Best of BS Opinion: Interest-waiver issue, Covid-19 crisis, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Higher NPAs hinder transmission of monetary policy actions: RBI paper

The working paper titled ''Bank Capital and Monetary Policy Transmission in India'' said banks often face many structural and frictional issues which dampen the transmission of monetary policy

RBI monetary policy: How to ease without cutting rates

The path ahead also remains uncertain because it is closely tied to the path of the pandemic curve

RBI keeps policy rates unchanged, says the worst is over for the economy

RBI to run 'accommodative' stance as long as necessary and even entering the next year

How the three members in the new MPC plan to track CPI inflation

Business Standard brings you their take on G-secs, poverty and even blockchain

Top headlines: RBI's MPC gets 'dovish tilt', Nobel physics prize announced

GST council has no jurisdiction over states' borrowing, three scientists get Nobel Prize for Physics -- Business Standard brings you top news of the evening

Status quo policy regardless of late MPC member induction: Experts

While new members will be domain experts, it would be too early for them to properly grasp of the situation once they get to see a tiny picture of the real economic scene at hand

The year unconventional monetary policy turned conventional, India to US

With the global recovery still uncertain and the virus set to leave scars on employers and employees, the likelihood is that monetary policy will stay ultra-loose for years to come

New monetary policy framework critical, robust evolution: US Fed vice chair

The Fed's new framework noted that policy decisions going forward will be based on the FOMC's estimates of "shortfalls of employment from its maximum level,"

Best of BS Opinion: Fort Narendra Modi, old times in Sri Lanka, and more

Business Standard opinion pieces for the day talk about, among other things, how the government is performing

RBI governor for judicious use of monetary action in future: MPC minutes

After a three-day brainstorming earlier this month, all the six members of the Das-headed Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) had opted for a status quo and left interest rates unchanged

Media often captures sentiments correctly ahead of monetary policy: Study

Media often captures the sentiments correctly ahead of monetary policy announcements by the central bank, says a study by the Reserve Bank of India officials.

Special market ops can be useful for monetary policy transmission: RBI

OT involves buying of GSECs with longer-term maturities -- ten years and five years -- and selling of shorter-term GSECs of original/ residual maturities of one and three years

Rollback time: What didn't work for govts earlier will not work even now

Long discarded policies like deficit monetisation, loan restructuring, higher tariffs and import licensing had not yielded great results even the first time around, points out T N Ninan

Best of BS Opinion: RBI's right call, India-China tensions, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

RBI hits pause button on monetary policy, applies balm on Covid-19 wounds

Decides to use future rate cuts "judiciously to maximise beneficial effects", gifts India Inc and individuals loan restructuring to ease pandemic-induced stress