RBI Keeps Repo Rate At 6.5%, Pausing After Six Consecutive Hikes

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By Mohammed Kudrati The Reserve Bank of India [RBI] today kept its benchmark policy repo range unchanged at 6.5% for the first time after six bi-monthly rate hikes since 2022. This move was voted on unanimously at the bi-monthly meeting its six-member Monetary Policy Committee. In his address, Governor Shaktikanta Das, however, said that the RBI would be ready to adapt to any circumstances and said that the pause was for this meeting only. “Let me emphasise that the decision to pause on the repo rate is for this meeting only”, he said. He explained this pause by citing financial turbulence abr…

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