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RBI maintains status quo on repo rate and cash reserve ratio

RBI maintains status quo on repo rate and cash reserve ratio

On April 1, 2014 Reserve Bank of India Governor Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan in his First Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement for 2014-15 has announced the monetary and liquidity measures based on an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation. RBI has decided to keep the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) unchanged at 8.0 per cent; keep the cash reserve ratio (CRR) of scheduled banks unchanged at 4.0 per cent of net demand and time liability (NDTL)

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Liquidity improves in banking system

Liquidity improves in banking system

Liquidity in the banking system has eased as is evident from the decline in the borrowing of banks through Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) liquidity adjustment facility (LAF). Money market participants feel that the easing liquidity may be because the government has already started spending. On a recent day, banks borrowed Rs 10,880 crore through RBI's LAF and this is sharply lower than over Rs 100