Reserve Bank of India seen cutting rates next week, first time in 9 months
25 basis points on Tuesday to 7.75 percent and follow it up with a cumulative 75 bps of cuts by the end of September, a Reuters poll showed last week.
"The RBI cannot be very aggressive in rate cuts. Our view is that inflation is unlikely to fall sustainably below 7 per cent. There are lot of suppressed inflationary pressures that will add to it," said Sonal Varma, India economist at Nomura in Mumbai.
The RBI last cut rates in April 2012 by 50 basis points but warned at the time there would be limited scope for further cuts.
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For much of last year, the government was in turmoil as a fractious coalition struggled to push through new policies to arrest an economic slide that analysts forecast will leave growth for the full-year to March 2013 at just 5.5 percent, almost half the pace seen before the global financial crisis.
But in September it announced big bang reforms in a package of measures to revive growth, saying it would open up its supermarket sector to foreign chains and allow more foreign investment in airlines and broadcasters.
More recently, it gave oil companies more room to set regulated diesel prices and in a sign of a fresh measure that could be in the pipeline, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said in TV comments aired on Thursday that India should consider hiking taxes for the "very rich".
The moves are intended to bolster investor sentiment, mend battered government finances and stave off a
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