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Why does RBI Sell Bonds, Like It Has Done Today?

RBI is doing an OMO sale of government bonds today, and has sold Rs. 8270 cr. worth bonds. Why? This is a good question. Why does RBI sell bonds? Who gets the ...

RBI Board Meeting: FII Limits Could Be Raised, NBFCs Might Aggregate Financial Data

Foreign Investor limits on Indian Government bonds might be raised, according to Raghuram Rajan, the RBI Governor, the Hindu reported. But this will be done ...

Be Sceptical: Mantri Developers Offers 100% "Assured" Returns in 3 Years, Yet Again, While SEBI and RBI Watch

1Mantri Developers is at it again. They’re offering 100% assured returns on your “investment”, and SEBI/RBI do absolutely nothing! In fact, ...

60% of the Bond Auction Fails, RBI Cancels Three of Four Auctions

RBI has just cancelled 60% of the government bond auction today. With four bonds on sale, we had noted again on twitter that underwriting commissions has ...
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Bond Markets Crash, Failure of Bond Auction Today is Likely Again

There’s some serious damage in the bond market in the last few days. We posted (in Premium) that Banks are likely to lose 10,000 cr. on just the extra ...

Current Account Deficit Falls to 0.2% of GDP, RBI Buys Massive Quantities of Incoming Dollars

The current account deficit for the March quarter of 2015 came in at -1,286 million, which is a big relief, even if it’s marginally higher than the ...

RBI Cuts Rates by 25 bps, and the Markets Hate It

RBI has, in it’s policy reduced the repo rate to 7.25% which is the lowest the rate has been in the last four years. Repo is the rate at which banks ...

We Have To Free The Rupee Because There Is No Other Choice, Says RBI ED

G. Padmanathan, ED at RBI, spoke about the concept of Rupee convertibility recently. He mentioned a lot of things against making the rupee “capital ...

Rising Yield Impact: Bond Auction Flops, Primary Dealers Have to Underwrite 2,600 cr. of 20 and 30 yr Bonds

After the cancellation of the 364 day T-Bill auction on Wednesday, we have further drama in bond markets. The 20 and 30 year bonds, auctioned today for 3,000 ...

What Happened With The 364 Day T-Bill on Wednesday?

Okay, so hardly anyone notices this stuff. The RBI keeps holding auctions of T-Bills – or Treasury Bills – every week. These are notes for ...