Headline consumer price inflation is likely to have risen in April due to another pick up in food inflation. However, it will have remained below the RBI’s 4.0% target. That will be enough to prompt the central bank to cut policy rates again, perhaps as soon as at its next meeting in June. But with core inflation still elevated, we think that further monetary loosening would be a policy mistake.
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