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HSBC economist Pranjul Bhandari expects another cut of 25 bps in repo rates from RBI before the end of this fiscal. The exact timing - whether it would be at the December meeting or in February would depend on market volatility around the US Fed's upcoming policy meeting (December 13/14) and India's demonetization scheme, Pranjul Bhandari, Chief India Economist, HSBC Global Research, said in a report. If volatility rises the RBI may choose to push out the rate cut to February, she said..
The latest inflation data and softening global prices indicate that CPI inflation is likely to undershoot RBI's 5% target of early-2018 by a hefty margin, she said. Further, the recent demonetization of high denominated currency is likely to lower growth and inflation (on the back of a contraction in effective money supply), she added, which increases their confidence in their call of a 25 bps cut.
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