RBI Monetary Policy Day Guide June 6, 2018 INDIA

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Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – RBI Monetary Policy Day Guide June 6, 2018 INDIA — Policy action: Even as the market expects status quo, there are three likely scenarios that can emerge from today’s policy. First RBI could maintain a pause in policy rate with change in stance from neutral to hawkish, signalling that more rate hikes are imminent. The second scenario is when the RBI could hike the policy rates, and lastly a rate hike followed by a hawkish stance.

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Reserve Bank of India to Hold Rates, But June Hike now Close call

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Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – In a snap poll of 56 economists taken after gross domestic product data on Thursday, 26 of those respondents, or about 46 percent, expect the RBI to take the repo rate higher at the June 6 meeting. The GDP data showed Asia’s third-largest economy grew at its fastest pace in nearly two years in the January-March period.                   

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Southwest Monsoon Hits Kerala, Says Skymet

Southwest Monsoon Hits Kerala

Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Southwest Monsoon Hits Kerala, Says Skymet — IMD’s main parameter to decide the arrival of monsoon is by measuring the rainfall in its available 14 stations. If 60 per cent of the available 14 stations — Minicoy, Amini, Thiruvananthapuram, Punalur, Kollam, Allapuzha, Kottayam, Kochi, Thrissur, Kozhikode, Thalassery, Kannur, Kudulu and Mangalore — report rainfall of 2.5 mm or more for two consecutive days after May 10, the onset of Monsoon over Kerala can be declared on the second day.               

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India’s Correlation With Global Markets Approaches 10-Year Low

Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – The disconnect is most pronounced in the bond market, where India’s 10-year yields have almost no correlation with a portfolio consisting of global sovereign debt. A shrinking correlation between financial markets in India and those in the rest of the world is one reason to buy its assets. The weighted average correlation of India’s currency, bonds and stocks with those in other global economies fell to 0.32 last month, approaching a more than 10-year low of 0.29 set in November. The reading was as high as 0.68 in 2010, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Global investment managers say this divergence provides them with an asset class that can smooth out returns in their portfolios.               

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Government Rejigs Top Managements Of Three PSU Banks

Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Government Rejigs Top Managements Of Three PSU Banks – Based on recommendations of Banks Board Bureau, the government rejigged top managements of three state-run lenders. banking secretary tweeted.

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Fuel Prices Raised For Tenth Day In A Row

Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Fuel Prices Raised For Tenth Day In A Row – State-run oil marketers hiked petrol and diesel prices for the tenth day in a row. The price of petrol was hiked by 29 paise today to Rs 84.9 a litre in Mumbai and diesel was raised by 28 paise to Rs 72.76 a litre, according to data released by Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.                    

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