Bankers see upward pressure on interest rates after the Reserve Bank raised two key short-term rates in the busy season credit policy of October.
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India's economy experienced a growth of 7.8 per cent during the October-December quarter of 2025-26, according to the new series of national accounts with 2022-23 as the base year.
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With inflation moderating slightly in recent weeks, HDFC chairman, Deepak Parekh, hoped that there would be no further interest rate hikes even though there was a feeling in the market that the peaking interest rates could go up by another 0.5 per cent.
Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) Chairman Deepak Parekh on Tuesday said that interest rates may rise owing to higher inflation, but lending rates are unlikely to change in the next one month.
The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday (local time) raised interest rates by 75 basis points (bps) or three-quarters of a percentage point in the boldest move since 1994.
Reserve Bank of India Governor Bimal Jalan on Wednesday said the apex bank's stance on soft interest rate environment will continue while it will remain flexible for repo rate.\n\n\n\n
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One of the implications of rising interest rates that deserves more attention than it gets in the current discourse is that of deteriorating credit quality.
In the backdrop of an over four-decade high inflation, the US Federal Open Market Committee has raised its key policy interest rate by 75 basis points to 2.25-2.50 per cent, anticipating that the increase in the interest rates will be "appropriate". Hiking interest rates typically cool demand in the economy, thereby putting a brake on the inflation rate. The US Federal Reserve in its June meeting too raised the interest rate by 75 basis points, which was the steepest hike since 1994.
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The consumer price index (CPI)-based inflation hitting an all-time low in October would encourage the six-member monetary policy committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to cut the policy repo rate in its upcoming December 3-5 meeting. However, the July-September GDP growth, expected to be above 7 per cent, may act as a deterrent.
"Clearly there is a slowdown in the number of deals. . . interest rates have gone up from eight per cent in the past to now 12 per cent and prices too have gone up but an asset bubble is not there," ICICI Bank Joint Managing Director Chanda Kochhar told PTI. She said that a correction was expected as the present slowdown was in number of deals and not so much in prices.
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.
The government is closely watching the movement of prices of five essential items -- steel, cement, sugar, wheat and rice -- besides that of oil in the global market despite inflation dropping to over a two-year low of 3.35 per cent, Finance Minister
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Asset quality stress has ballooned recently, as growth slowed and interest rates continued to rise.
Credit rating agency ICRA expects interest rates in the Indian economy to harden, which together with a slowdown in agriculture growth, will put pressure on industrial activity and profitability of the banking sector.
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Given the extremely good liquidity situation in the economy, interest rates are likely to remain stable in the next six months, K V Kamath, managing director and CEO, ICICI Bank said.
The Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday left all the key interest rates unchanged in the first quarterly review of the monetary policy.
IDBI Bank has hiked interest rate by 0.25 per cent on fixed deposits having maturity of 365 days and above, effective from Monday.
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Institute of Economic Growth has warned that rising foreign exchange demand and global interest rates may weaken the rupee and slow down forex accumulation, which is expected to touch $106 billion by March.
Consumers may not have got any respite from high interest rates, but they also need not be apprehensive about further increase with the Reserve Bank of India giving a clear signal for stable monetary policy stance.
The Central Board of Trustees of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) today decided to retain the previous year's interest rate of 8.5 per cent for the current fiscal.
Reserve Bank of India should introduce interest rate options based on Indian rupee benchmark, a financial derivative instrument, to meet future financing requirements of clients, according to the representatives of leading private banks.
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