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An Outlook on India Credit Policy


RBI Credit policy has been announced and it has revised the inflation targets upwards from 5% to 6.5% for FY10. RBI has said that it will ‘watch inflation like a hawk’. This clearly means that RBI is concerned about the spiralling prices and this could be the prime issue which would dictate the policy decisions in the coming months.



Apart from that, the RBI Monetary Policy was just another non-event.Interest rates were kept unchanged.Major announcement could be summarized as below:-


1. CRR was unchanged at 5%.

2. Repo rates unchanged at 4.75%.

3. Reverse repo rates unchanged at 3.25%.

4. SLR rate was hiked to 25% from 24% and this, the RBI says would not affect liquidity.

5. FY10 GDP forecast has been kept unchanged at 6% for FY10 with upward bias.


And at the same time, the policy has said that it expects to see a modest decline in agriculture. The RBI does not seem to be overtly worried about the decline in agri growth as it is feels this fall is seasonal and once the monsoons, hopefully, improves in the next year, things would fall back in place. It expects robust growth in industrial sector to more than make up for the decline in agri and that, RBI hopes, would keep the GDP buoyant.


RBI is also equally worried about the present situation of liquidity. And knowing this, it has pointed out that there is enough evidence pointing to excess liquidity feeding into asset prices. FY10 money supply growth projection has also been lowered to 17%.


Loans to real estate companies are to become more expensive as realty provisions have been hiked to 1% from 0.4%. The immediate fallout of this would be that some developers who are already having a huge interest cost would now have to pay more. This would mean, costs for realty companies would go up and in all probability, developers would pass on this cost to the consumers, meaning realty prices would go up.NPA norms for banks have been tightened, which is expected as always.


Collateral borrowings are to now attract CRR. So this is more like a back door entry of the hike in CRR which seems like a surety in Jan 2010, or even before that.


Indian Markets Reaction to the Policy


Markets were down 110 points just few minutes before the RBI Monetary Policy came in. And it continued to remain in the red, with realty companies slipping fast. Though a non-event, the market is now worried about the hawkish stance taken by RBI. It clearly sends out the signal that in the coming months, when the next policy is out in January 2010 or even before that, screws will get tightened.