Inflation is likely to have risen in December on account of accelerating food inflation and the government’s incremental hiking of fuel duties even as global oil prices continue to slump. Further ahead, a potentially large rise in public sector wages would add to the RBI’s difficult task in meeting its medium-term inflation targets. The upshot is that there is no scope for further interest rate cuts.
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