RBI Monetary Policy Highlights: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank kept the repo rate unchanged at 4 percent and maintained an ‘accommodative’ stance. The RBI MPC began its three-day deliberations on Wednesday. In another major announcement, RBI Governor said that the commercial and co-op banks will not give out dividends this year and retain all the profits.
The government has finally appointed three economists — PMEAC member Ashima Goyal, NCAER’s Shashanka Bhide and IIM-Ahmedabad professor Jayanth Varma — as new members of the RBI’s monetary policy committee (MPC) to decide on interest rates. Read more at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/78503120.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst