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Domestic benchmarks opened slightly higher on Tuesday, as data showing annual retail inflation eased to a three-month low in October strengthened bets of smaller interest rate hikes from the RBI.
The NSE Nifty 50 index was up 0.14% at 18,354.85 as of 0346 GMT, while the S&P BSE Sensex rose 0.16% to 61,722.74.
India’s annual retail inflation eased to 6.77 per cent last month, helped by a slower rise in food prices, data showed on Monday. Although, that was slightly higher than the 6.73 per cent forecast by economists in a Reuters poll and the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) tolerance limit.
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