The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) eases lending norms for NBFCs, reducing risk weights on bank loans from 125 to 100 per cent, fueling optimism and triggering a stock market surge.

Discover how inflation and interest rates are silently shaping the rupee's future.

By adjusting interest rates and managing liquidity, the RBI creates conditions that affect corporate earnings, investor confidence, and overall market sentiment.

The rate decision will be announced on Friday, February 07, 2025.

MFIN’s new cap limiting borrowers to three lenders, originally set for January 2025, has been deferred to April 2025, easing investor concerns and boosting microfinance stocks like CreditAccess Grameen

The central bank's income rose by 17.04 per cent in FY24, while expenditure significantly decreased by 56.30 per cent.

Shares experienced a significant increase in buying interest, climbing more than 9 per cent amidst a generally weak market

Total borrowing across all states reaches Rs 413,452 crore rupees.

Over the course of the year, the RBI has successfully mitigated inflationary pressures, all the while maintaining robust economic growth.

Back in March 2018, the stock was quoted at a modest Rs 313.25 per share, but today it is trading at a staggering Rs 1331.90 per share. If you had invested Rs 1,00,000 in 2018, you would have received 319 shares. Fast forward to today, and the value of those shares would be a whopping Rs 4,24,908! That's an incredible return on investment that any investor would be thrilled about.

Inflation is the rate at which an economy's overall price level of goods and services increases over time.

Go Payments subsidiary turns EBITDA breakeven; company increases stake further. It has received in-principle approval to operate as Payment Aggregator and perpetual Bill Payments license from RBI.  

Monetary policy is the activities governed by the central bank that aim to influence the management of the money supply and the interest rates in the country. 

Nitco Ltd, Kanani Industries and Raj Television Network were the top low-priced gainers on the BSE that locked at 20 per cent upper circuits.  

There was no signal that the rate hike cycle is coming to an end from the RBI governor.  

Here is a list of the top IT sector multi-baggers that have more than doubled investors' wealth!  

Let's look at how factors like interest rate hikes, imports and exports, employment, and foreign exchange reserves affect the rupee's movement.

Considering it is governed by a central authority, the volatility risk associated with other digital currencies such as bitcoin is not there while transacting and tracking the transactions will become easier for the government and users alike

In the first quarter of FY23, the bank had exceptional growth of over 110 per cent, making a net profit of Rs 228.75 crore as opposed to Rs 108.87 crore in the same period of FY22. 

At noon on Monday, the headline equity indices, i.e. Sensex and Nifty 50 are trading marginally higher amidst extreme volatility & recession fears. 

On the other hand, Asia Pacific markets are seen giving mixed signals with Japan’s Nikkei 225 trading lower by 1.16 per cent while Shanghai climbing 0.29 per cent. 

The idea is that people will spend less if borrowing money or carrying a balance on a credit card costs more.

At 1 pm on Thursday, the headline equity indices, i.e. Sensex and Nifty 50 are trading marginally higher amidst extreme market volatility in the US markets.    The FIIs bought equity worth Rs 1,344.63 crore on Tuesday (October 4) while the DIIs bought equity for a net worth of Rs 945.92 crore.    

Now with the announcement of RBI that digital currency will be launched as a pilot project this year, we bring to you what Pratik Gauri, Co-Founder & CEO has to say on this development:

Amidst all this, there is one stock that has witnessed a breakout of cup & handle-like pattern. And what’s important is the fact that this stock belongs to the prestigious Tata Group! Moreover, the company has a good dividend track record and consistently declared dividends for the last five years.   

RBI discussion paper, issued earlier in August, expressed that the charges in UPI need to be levied in the same way as IMPS for fund transfer. This raised questions about the possibility of RBI charging fees for UPI payments, which has created a buzz among the general public.   

At 11.15 am on Tuesday, the headline equity indices, i.e. Sensex and Nifty 50 are trading higher on the bourses as India's CPI inflation data came out better than expected by the economists.

At 11.30 am on Friday, the headline equity indices, i.e. Sensex and Nifty 50 are trading marginally higher, followed by a good earnings week and economic data improvement. 

In context to market expectations from Friday’s RBI MPC meet, Sumit Chanda, Founder & CEO of JARVIS Invest says, “While there have been some indications of the inflation moderating, with the Brent being still above the $100 mark and a falling rupee, we can expect RBI to hike the repo rate by about 50 bps.

The gradual increase in the cost of goods and services is known as inflation. A nation's economy is in danger when inflationary forces are present, but deflation, also known as negative inflation is a much more dangerous problem. 

Euro/USD broke its 20-year low, while HDFC twins merger waits as Tata Motors win case against Evey. In a major development, shareholders of Britannia Industries rejected the promoter’s investment proposal, also the Service Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), came highest since April 2011, and recovery is seen in demand for the auto sector. 

At 11.30 am on Wednesday, the headline equity indices, i.e. Sensex and Nifty 50 were trading marginally higher.  

Nifty closed on a high note as it made a fantastic recovery in the last half an hour. It closed marginally lower on a close-to-close basis but gained about 240 points from its day’s low.

Distinct signs of economic weakness such as volatile equity markets, raging inflation and regular hikes in interest rates are compelling investors to ask the daunting question: Have we entered recession? To answer the question – no, the Indian economy is not in a recession. Let us understand the precise meaning of recession. There are many ways in which recession can be defined

Indices closed lower for the sixth consecutive day and ended the week on a bearish note. Nifty slipped about 0.44 per cent.

The Reserve Bank of India upped the repo rate by 50 basis points today, as expected. What influence, though, might debt fund investors have?

Indices closed lower for the fourth consecutive day as Nifty falls below 16,400, down by 0.37 per cent.

Interestingly, fuelled by a good monsoon forecast, the FMCG sector anticipates a revival in demand and moreover, the expectation of fading inflationary pressure in the coming month would mean that margins may improve from hereon. Hence, stocks from this sector are likely to be on the radar.

Sensex tanked over 1,200 points and was trading at 55,775.81.09, down by 2.11 per cent, after RBI Governor announced a 40 bps rate hike in the repo rate at 2 pm on May 4, 2022.  

Nifty 50 also was down by 2.09 per cent and was trading at 16,712.80 levels.  

On Thursday morning the markets opened lower only to plunge deep as the day advanced. The bear tightens its grip over the global markets as Russia advances its efforts to invade East Ukraine despite all the warnings from the USA and the United Nations. This has led to a surge in crude oil prices hitting a 7-year high and has almost crossed the USD 100 per barrel mark. 

Today’s RBI MPC meeting was quite significant, considering the increasing Omicron scare and update on RBI’s stance on the economy.