RBI MPC meets on repo rate review
Pause repo rate and maintain stance: Is there any other option for RBI MPC? The third bi-monthly review meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for the current financial year (FY 26-27) starts tomorrow. Going through the data of the following important parameters, which get discussed in the RBI MPC meeting, and the action of some major global central banks in the last few days, makes one feel that nothing concrete emerged since then to compel the MPC to vote for a change in the repo rate/monetary stance. 1. The CPI inflation is on the rise since Dec'25 and reached a high of 4.38% in June'26. But the Q1FY206 actuals at 3.93% is much less than that was projected at 4.1% by RBI MPC. It is important to note that the committee has already projected the CPI inflation to be above the 5% in the remaining three quarters of FY 26-27. 2. The factory output growth, based on the new series of Index of Industrial Production (IIP) with base year of 2022...