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Market Ahead, March 30: Top Factors That Could Guide Markets This Week

In terms of macro data, PMI data for the manufacturing sector is scheduled to be released on Thursday

RBI rate cut, government stimulus done. What are the markets eyeing now?

The S&P BSE Sensex slipped 1,310 points from the day's high to close marginally negative on Friday post the RBI's measures

Measures announced by RBI are enough for now but what next, Mr Das?

No one cares about fiscal deficit now. Or for that matter, inflation. The focus is on growth and growth alone

Best of BS Opinion: A petition for financial emergency, Covid-19, and more

Read what extrapolated policy prescriptions are predicated on. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up

The liquidity gush

RBI's steps will help in smooth functioning of financial markets

The Morning After

Policy interventions will have to be intelligent: Striving to create deep, but temporary, safety nets during COVID-19 without generating imbalances and distortions thereafter

Banks face operational hurdles in implementing 90-day loan moratorium

With branches and call centres working with skeletal staff, communicating to customers and documenting the process are key challenges

Bank of India cuts MCLR up to 25 bps across category, deposit rate cut next

RBI has expanded liquidity in the system sizably to ensure financial markets and institutions are able to function normally, in the face of Covid-related dislocation

Cheap index valuation isn't inspiring

Cloudy earnings outlook in the coming quarters is likely to play spoilsport

RBI relief package to help sustain businesses during coronavirus: Bankers

The Union Bank CEO said that the RBI's package would help in sustaining business at a time when a 21-day nationwide lockdown to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus

SBI cuts lending rate by 75 bps as RBI introduces liquidity package

SBI also cut interest rates on retail term deposits by 20-50 bps. For bulk deposits, the cut was steeper, by 50-100 bps, due to huge liquidity in the system

Covid-19 relief: RBI cuts repo 75 bps; defers term-loan EMIs for 3 months

Repo down to 4.4%; reverse repo reduced by 90 basis to 4%; CRR lowered by a percentage point to 3%; inflation and growth forecast not given as they would depend on the extent of the coronavirus crisis

Shekhar Gupta: Because, tomorrow always comes

There are many scary scenarios about how badly we Indians may be affected or how many killed by COVID-19. But they presume 1.36 billion people will do nothing to influence their fates

Boosting resilience against the 4 Cs

The uncertainty is sufficiently large that RBI was dissuaded from releasing projections of growth and inflation for FY21

Coronavirus impact: Comparing India's economy in the 2 major crisis periods

The GDP growth rates given in the chart are based on the 2011-12 base year

Chidambaram calls RBI's EMI deferment step half-hearted, ambiguous

'The demand is that all EMI due dates must be automatically deferred,' he said

Moratorium a good option for the cash-starved, banks to take final call

The moratorium is for three months on payment of all instalments due between March 1, 2020, and May 31, 2020, including credit card payments

RBI opens up intervention avenue in offshore rupee derivative market

The central bank is tight-lipped on its intervention strategy, but it is suspected that it recently intervened in a huge amount in the offshore markets

A bit late, but the Reserve Bank has managed to surprise the market

No one expected a CRR cut at this time; 75 basis points cut in the policy rate at one shot has also been more than what most had expected

RBI repayment moratorium: All loans, credit card dues will be covered

Issuing the detailed instructions on the moratorium announcement later in the day, the RBI said, The instalments include payments falling due from March 1 to May 31