The RBI’s June gamble of frontloaded easing and a sudden neutral stance has backfired, raising borrowing costs. Governor Malhotra now needs both words and deeds.
BasisPoint Groupthink
August 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM IST
RBI
August MPC minutes show caution but not closure. With Ranjan wavering, the RBI keeps cuts alive while waiting on data, tariffs, and transmission.
August 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM IST
Poonam Gupta
GST rationalisation gives growth a fiscal lifeline but deepens deficit fears, leaving India’s bond market trapped in a “higher for longer” yield cycle.
Yield Scribe
August 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM IST
iStock.com
The stance pivot drove up long yields, impairing transmission, sapping demand, and raising borrowing costs just as risks build.
Richard Fargose
August 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM IST
By normalising a lower CRR, the RBI risks trivialising a potent policy tool. Clarity, discipline and market signals could all be at stake.
July 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM IST
FX book chickens come home to roost in 2025-26, and the RBI’s liquidity injections may need to grow even larger to avoid a fresh policy transmission hiccup.
Vivek Kumar
May 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM IST