Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has taken an important step by cutting the cash reserve ratio (CRR) by 0.5% at 5.5%. Cash reserve ratio is a parameter set by RBI for any commercial bank of the country, which indicates the minimum cash any commercial bank must hold. It normally represents the physical cash a bank hold in its bank vault. And at the same time there is no change with the repo rate. It still remains at its original 8.5% stage.
A repo rate is the rate of interest at which RBI lends fund to other banks which is 8.5% and the reserve repo rate is that rate of interest at which RBI borrows money from other commercial banks which is also remain unchanged at 7.5 %.
So a reduction in this CRR rate will enables Rs 32,000 crore flow to the economy or in other words to the market which the banks have to kept as per RBI’s regulation. So this flow will definitely hike the liquidity which was very much awaited.
We can easily notice the positive impact of Tuesday’s announcement by RBI governor D Subbarao on the stock market. The sensex and nifty, two major benchmarks of bse nse of indian stock exchange running with a hike. sensex register a jump of250 points and doing above 17,000 mark similarly with a rise of 80 points nifty is above 5,100 mark.
Regarding the GDP growth rate forecast for the year 2011-12 RBI intends a lower growth rate of 7% rather than 7.6% and tries to barricade the inflation first.
Today 6% CRR is reduced to 5.5% will effect from this January 28, 2012 which was hiked 13 times since March 2010 is definitely a welcome step from the market point of view.
A repo rate is the rate of interest at which RBI lends fund to other banks which is 8.5% and the reserve repo rate is that rate of interest at which RBI borrows money from other commercial banks which is also remain unchanged at 7.5 %.
So a reduction in this CRR rate will enables Rs 32,000 crore flow to the economy or in other words to the market which the banks have to kept as per RBI’s regulation. So this flow will definitely hike the liquidity which was very much awaited.
We can easily notice the positive impact of Tuesday’s announcement by RBI governor D Subbarao on the stock market. The sensex and nifty, two major benchmarks of bse nse of indian stock exchange running with a hike. sensex register a jump of250 points and doing above 17,000 mark similarly with a rise of 80 points nifty is above 5,100 mark.
Regarding the GDP growth rate forecast for the year 2011-12 RBI intends a lower growth rate of 7% rather than 7.6% and tries to barricade the inflation first.
Today 6% CRR is reduced to 5.5% will effect from this January 28, 2012 which was hiked 13 times since March 2010 is definitely a welcome step from the market point of view.