“Liquidity window may not be fully utilised but it is the sentiment which counts. As a result of the large liquidity available, banks and participants know there is a backstop available if things were to get difficult and funds available should they be required,” says Ashwini Kumar Tewari.
Besides relief for borrowers and funding for healthcare, the RBI announced a host of steps that would provide funds for those who lend to the micro-segment. (Reuters)
MUMBAI: Reserve Bank of India has opened its purses to fund the second battle in the war against Covid by providing a Rs 50,000 crore liquidity window to ramp up healthcare infrastructure. While it did not announce a blanket moratorium on all repayments like in 2020, It did extend relief to individuals and small businesses who have loans up to Rs 25 crore by allowing them to seek a loan restructuring.
“This is the first part of a calibrated and comprehensive strategy against the pandemic,” said RBI governor Shaktikanta Das in a public announcement said that he was willing to take many more `small and big steps including unconventional measures and work with the government to `ameliorate the extreme travails that our citizens are undergoing in this hour of distress.
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Reacting to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das s announcements to reduce the stress on small businesses and the MSME sector amid the second wave of Covid 2.0, Ashwini Kumar Tewari, MD,
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The RBI is determined to cool down yields against the dictates of the market. Can a central bank, however powerful it may be, be able to fight against market forces?
This is the desirable objective. These are long-term papers and there is a large borrowing program. In terms of market participants wanting a higher yield, I would only point out to the fact that there is a reason why RBI has capped input from foreign investors which is significant but not indefinite. So they cannot really pull down the entire market and they are not fully invested also at this moment. So the RBI is right in
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Shares of HDFC, Maruti Suzuki, SBI Cards, Panacea Biotec, Marico, Adani Ports, HDFC Bank, YES Bank, Bank of India, will be in focus on Tuesday s trade
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The Indian stock markets, Sensex and Nifty, are expected to continue losing streak on Tuesday, tracking weak cues from Asian markets and flat trading at Nifty futures on the Singapore Exchange. Among the individual stocks, shares of HDFC, Maruti Suzuki, SBI Cards, Panacea Biotec, Marico, Sobha, JSPL, Adani Ports, HDFC Bank, YES Bank, Bank of India, will be in focus on Tuesday s trading session.