Food inflation, new MSPs, RBI policy

The Reserve Bank stepped up the pace of tightening by hiking the repo rate by 50bps to 4.90% this week. It also upped its inflation forecasts substantially, primarily due to food inflation. We agree that food prices will drive headline CPI inflation higher over the coming months, which is why we expect the RBI to continue frontloading policy tightening.  

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