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RBI’s tightening cycle has further to run

The RBI today raised the repo rate by 50bps to 5.40% as we had anticipated, and struck a relatively hawkish tone despite inflation surprising to the downside in recent months. It’s clear that the tightening cycle still has legs and we expect another 100bps of hikes by early 2023.  

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