The Repo Rate Hike: Inflation Gave the Cover, the Rupee Gave the Reason

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SumanSpeaks Independent Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence RBI Policy Decoded The Repo Rate Hike: Inflation Gave the Cover, the Rupee Gave the Reason The RBI raised the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.50 percent on 7 October 2026. With the rupee at ₹96.78 to the dollar, the Fed at 3.75–4.00 percent and bank credit growing near 18 percent, the fuller story is bigger than August CPI of 4.8 percent. The Reserve Bank of India raised the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.50 percent on 7 October 2026. It is the first hike since February 2023, and the stance has moved from neutral to calibrated tightening. The rate decision was unanimous. The Governor cited inflation. The Monetary Policy Committee said the inflation outlook is no longer as comfortable as it was last year, and near-term rate cuts were taken off the table. That is the official story, and it is not wrong. But it is incomplete. Look at what surrounds the decision: a rupee near its record...
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Moneycontrol.com writes on July 29, 2015: The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has selected 10 companies who can file expression of interests (EoI) for futuristic infantry combat vehicles by October 2015. This will replace the Sarath BMP, which has been existing since past 10 years. 

The seven year old project is worth Rs.60,000 crore and includes large players like Tata Motors , M&M , Tata Power SED, L&T and smaller players like Titagarh Wagon , Rolta Limited, Pipavav Defence , Bharat Forge and Punj Lloyd.

Meanwhile, there were media reports that India’s Rolta Power Pvt Ltd and China-based Zhenfa New Energy Science and Technology Co Ltd have teamed up with a plan to install at least 2 GW of solar power capacity in India by 2020.

The two companies have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to conduct and capitalise on joint engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) opportunities in India’s solar power industry, they said in a press release on Tuesday.

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