By Siddhi Nayak and Swati Bhat MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian banks’ capital position remains robust, supported by high profits, and their asset quality should further improve through March next year, a report released by the central bank on Thursday showed. Banks’ bad loans, or gross non-performing asset ratio, slipped to a multi-year low of 2.8% […]
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India must avoid ‘adventurism’, focus on bringing down inflation, cenbank chief says
By Jaspreet Kalra MUMBAI (Reuters) – India should avoid “adventurism” and continue to focus on bringing down inflation towards the target of 4% despite the growing clamour to signal a pivot in monetary policy, Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Tuesday. “At this point there is again clamour that one should change […]
India cenbank moves 100 tons of gold from UK to domestic vaults, TOI reports
BENGALURU (Reuters) – India’s central bank has moved a little more than 100 metric tons of gold from the UK to its domestic vaults, the Times of India newspaper reported on Friday, citing sources. A similar quantity of the precious metal might be coming to the country in the coming months, the report said, adding […]
India to buy back 400 billion rupees worth of bonds, cenbank says
BENGALURU (Reuters) – India will buy back 400 billion rupees ($4.80 billion) worth of securities, the country’s central bank said on Friday. The securities offered for buyback are 6.18% GS 2024, 9.15% GS 2024 and 6.89% GS 2025, the Reserve Bank of India said in a statement. “The choice of securities suggests this buyback is […]