FD rate hike: Axis Bank offers FD rates of 3.50-7.85% p.a. to senior citizens on tenures ranging from 7 days to 10 years, effective from 5 February 2024
Fixed deposit interest rate hike: The era of rising interest rates on fixed deposits is not over yet. Some factors that indicate this is credit growth remaining much higher than deposit growth; the recent decision of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to increase the investment limit of non-callable deposits to Rs 1 crore. As an FD investor, you can take advantage of rising interest rates to invest in term deposits. Know how your FD interest rate will be impacted in the short term and long term.
FD interest rate: All eyes are on RBI monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting scheduled on October 6, 2023. Most experts say that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to keep the repo rate unchanged at 6.5%. How is it going to impact your investments such as fixed deposits (FDs)? If the repo rate remains unchanged, will the FD interest rates remain stagnant? Will there be no deposit rate hike in the coming days? Or will FD interest rates drop sharply in the near term? Let s find out what experts say