The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) decision to cut the key benchmark rate by 50bp today signals its determination to shore up a flagging economy. But with the key rate still relatively high at 5.0% and with no further fiscal support likely until after the elections, the RBI has both the room and the need to cut further. We are expecting the policy rate to fall to just 3.5% by mid-2009.
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