Selected Tag: OMO
Selected Tag: OMO

Open Mouths, Open Markets, and RBI’s Signalling Gap

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

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India’s Bond Market Faces Harsh Reality as Fiscal Pressures Mount 

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

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SBI Research Pushes For 50-BPS Jumbo Rate Cuts To Boost Transmission

The benign inflation outlook, coupled with a moderate growth forecast, has created what the bank describes as a “Goldilocks period” for rate cuts.

BasisPoint Insight

May 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM IST

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Liquidity: Sterilisation, Caution, Or Doubling Down?

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

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RBI Sharpens Liquidity Playbook With April OMOs to Anchor Yields, Transmission

Bond purchases continue even as liquidity turns surplus, reinforcing RBI's push for smooth rate transmission and economic support.

Richard Fargose

April 2, 2025 at 2:23 AM IST

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RBI Swings To Action With OMO Buys As Rate Cut Getting Wasted

Markets shrugged off RBI’s first rate cut in five years — ₹1 trillion OMOs may get some bang for the buck, though not this month.

Kalyan Ram

March 6, 2025 at 4:11 AM IST

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RBI Announces Another FX Swap, More OMOs

BasisPoint Insight

March 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM IST

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