The Reserve Bank of India kicked off its tightening cycle with a 25bp hike to the repo rate today (to 5.50%), vindicating our long-held view that policy would need to be tightened even as most analysts had initially expected the Bank to remain on hold. With the Bank striking a rather hawkish tone, we are increasingly confident in our above-consensus terminal rate forecast of 6.00%.
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