 | RBI's aggressive rate hike signals trying times aheadFriday's rate hike only confirms how inflation perched itself firmly above the central banks' upper tolerance band of 6%, and will likely stay there at least until December. |
 | How inflation affects your ‘defensive’ investmentsWords like ‘inflation’ and ‘prices’ figured over 300 times in the recently-released Monetary Policy Report of the Reserve Bank of India. |
 | RBI may hike reverse repo rate by 0.25 per cent in next week's policy: ReportAnalysts also blame the surprising hike on the government borrowing announced in the budget for the RBI's likely call for policy normalisation. |
 | RBI lets Schrodinger's cat out of the bag, admits rate corrections can't fight inflation for nowA rate hike arrests monetary inflation, or rising prices due to increasing money supply. But given the present inflation is due to global supply bottlenecks, rate corrections are simply useless. |
 | RBI harps on 'gradualism'; holds key ratesThe proposed rollback of exceptional measures instituted during the crisis, will be 'gradual, calibrated and non-disruptive,' and are being done in two levers. |
 | RBI predicts retail inflation to rise to 5.1 per cent in March quarter of fiscalThe central bank has also projected inflation to be in the range of 5.1-5.6 per cent in the first half of 2018-19. |
