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SBI Chairman in the last year's banking conclave had started a debate by seeking to abolish cash reserve ratio to enhance liquidity in the banking sector for more productive use.
"You may probably see some more liquidity controls like the CRR being altered again...if oil prices go beyond tolerable levels..," J&K Bank's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Haseeb A Drabu, told reporters on the sidelines of a seminar in Mumbai.
The Reserve Bank on Friday eased money supply further by cutting key policy rates and ratios - decisions that would among other things infuse Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion) into the banking system.
At a meeting with chairmen and managing directors of public sector banks, Chidambaram asked them not to overprice loans to FMCG and automobile sectors.
The government is likely to announce early next week a series of measures to boost economic activity in the country.
India grew at 6.7 per cent in 2008-09. For the current fiscal 2009-10, the Economic Survey projected a 7 per cent growth rate plus/minus 0.75 per cent.
The rate cuts are expected to infuse Rs 80,000 crore into the banking system.
Benchmark policy rate unchanged at 6.75 per cent.
The non-food component in the price basket will continue to keep inflation at a high level and result in a "long pause" in interest rates, a foreign bank said on Wednesday. The central bank is likely to pare the pandemic-driven emergency response as well, the report by Singaporean lender DBS said. It can be noted that the high inflation driven by the food prices has forced the RBI to go for a status quo in rates for the three consecutive reviews of the bi-monthly policy meetings, even as growth continues to be in the negative territory.
Short-term lending rate unchanged at 7.75 pc.
The RBI's assessment of the economy, presented as a prelude to the policy announcement, was relatively downbeat. Conceding the persistence of a hostile global environment and domestic weakness, the RBI expects GDP growth during 2009-10 to be 6 per cent. This is slightly higher than the 5.7 per cent that reflects the median of its external forecasters' survey.
Mirroring weak cues from the overseas markets, the Sensex opened with a negative gap of 215 points at 10,765. The index thereafter tried to recover but slipped to lower levels after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced its annual credit policy.
Next bi-monthly policy statement on September 30.
'There will be positive growth, but if you ask me whether we are going to have the original growth rate of 8%, the answer will be, no.'
The recent hike in the rates will hurt your finances further. Time to do some stock-taking.
Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) is the amount of funds that the banks have to keep with the Reserve Bank of India. If RBI decides to increase the percent of this, the available amount with the banks comes down. RBI is using this method (increase of CRR rate), to drain out the excessive money from the banks.
A day after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised the benchmark repo rate and cash reserve ratio (CRR), leading property developers said they are mulling hiking prices of apartments and focusing on the affordable housing segment to counter the impact of a high interest rate regime.
As far as the Indian households are concerned, although the leverage ratio in this basket has multiplied nearly 3 times in the past decade, it is still well below not just developed but also most other developing economies.
Challenged by unrelenting inflationary pressures, Reserve Bank on Tuesday announced stringent measures of hiking mandatory cash reserve of the banks and its short-term lending rate to them to suck up an estimated Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion) -- a move that could make loans dearer for housing, car and personal expenses as also to the industry.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may not go in for key policy rate cuts in its quarterly policy review slated for January 23, said a senior finance ministry official.
Let's take a quick look at what all these terms mean to see how they affect the loan interest rates.
As if any proof was needed, the spate of Cash Reserve Ratio hikes clearly underlines the Reserve Bank of India's intention to clamp down on inflation before the situation deteriorates any further.
RBI slashes repo and reverse repo rates to all-time lows.
'When you need to revive the economy, when you need to revive aggregate demand, you cut taxes.' 'But what's this government doing?' 'It's increasing taxes for the middle class and the vast majority of the poor on fuel, which has a ratchet effect on most other products.'
The Reserve Bank might hike the Cash Reserve Ratio (statutory cash balances banks maintain with the apex bank) by 0.50% in its credit policy if inflation remains high, feel Indian bankers. The RBI is scheduled to announce annual credit policy for fiscal 2008-09 on April 29. RBI is likely to tighten money supply in its forthcoming annual credit policy to suck out excess liquidity from the system. Growth has moderated in recent months.
The RBI, had, earlier in the day, hiked CRR by 0.75 per cent in two tranches, a move, it said, would help flush-out Rs 36,000 crore (Rs 360 billion) from the system.
The NSE Nifty ended at 3,044, up 158 points. The market breadth was fairly positive with over three advancing stocks for every declining share - out of 2,652 stocks traded, 1,970 advanced, 633 declined and the rest were unchanged today.
The NSE Nifty ended at 3,606, up 4 points. The market breadth was fairly negative - out of 2,682 stocks traded, 1,820 declined, 789 advanced and 73 were unchanged.
The central bank was widely expected to maintain status quo.
Led by an unprecedented boom in domestic consumption, the country achieved an average GDP growth of 8.6 per cent over the past three years. For 2006-07, growth is forecast at 9.2 per cent, the fastest in 18 years.
Home, consumer and other loan rates are expected to go up with Reserve Bank of India announcing a hawkish credit policy hiking key short-term lending rate by 0.5 per cent and mandatory cash reserve requirement by 0.25 per cent to contain runaway inflation now at 11.89 per cent.
Banks have asked for an exemption of statutory requirements such as the cash reserve ratio (CRR) and the statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) for lending to the infrastructure sector. While the CRR is a tool where banks have to set aside liquidity with RBI in proportion of the deposits mobilised by them, the SLR requires banks to invest 25 per cent of their liabilities in government securities to generate instant liquidity.
The indications are all there but it will still be a few days before banks start raising lending rates that affect your equated monthly instalments (EMI).
In a late Tuesday evening development, RBI raised the repo rate, or the rate at which it lends to banks, by 50 basis points to 8.50 per cent. The cash reserve ratio, or the proportion of deposits kept with the central bank, will be increased by 50 basis points to 8.75 per cent.
Reserve Bank of India said on Thursday it is looking at liquidity, inflation and credit growth to see if it will have to take more steps to tighten monetary conditions.
RBI had last week announced a 0.5 per cent increase in cash reserve ratio to 5.5 per cent in two phases to absorb excess liquidity from the economy and check rising prices.
Though the Reserve Bank of India decided to reduce the risk weight for home loans between Rs 20 lakh (Rs 2 million) and Rs 30 lakh (Rs 3 million) to 50 per cent, the possible benefit for banks seems to be more than neutralised by 75 basis point rise in cash reserve ratio and increase in the cost of resources, which is linked to yields on government bonds and competition, bankers said.
The country's largest public sector lender State Bank of India on Thursday said that it does not expect the interest rates to go up in the short term.
Interest rates are not expected to go up immediately even as the Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday announced a fresh 25-basis-point hike in the cash reserve ratio (CRR), the amount of cash banks must keep with the central bank, in its Annual Policy Statement for 2008-09. The impact is, however, expected to be marginal as bankers talked about keeping lending rates stable for the time being due to sufficient liquidity in the system. The move will absorb around Rs 8,000 crore.
The Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday hiked the cash reserve ratio by 25 basis points.
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