Lenders rose on Monday as investors bet on a rate cut in Friday’s RBI rate review, with growing hopes of a chunkier 50 bps cut or a lowering of the cash reserve ratio.
[caption id=“attachment_745639” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Shares of HDFC Bank , India’s No3 lender by loan value, rise 1.25 percent. AFP[/caption]
The Reserve Bank of India may sweeten its expected 25 basis point interest rate cut with a similar reduction in the cash reserve ratio to ease tight market liquidity conditions as increasingly benign inflation gives it room to manoeuvre.
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Shares of HDFC Bank , India’s No3 lender by loan value, rise 1.25 percent, State Bank of India Ltd (SBI.NS) is up 2.38 percent, while ICICI Bank gained 1.17 percent.
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