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Will October inflation breach 6%? What it means for interest rates, EMIs and GDP growth

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Business Today reported that rising food prices could push India's retail inflation to a two-year high, breaching the RBI's comfort zone. The report said this raises the prospect of interest rate hikes, and it cited views from Bloomberg Economics, BofA Securities and SBI Research. Retail inflation is the yearly change in prices of a basket of goods and services that households buy. The RBI's comfort zone is the 2% to 6% band it works within. A repo rate hike would mean the RBI raising the rate at which it lends to banks, which is linked to loan EMIs. The report does not give an inflation figure or a date for the data.

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Will October inflation breach 6%? What it means for interest rates, EMIs and GDP growth

Rising food prices could push retail inflation to a two-year high, breaching the RBI’s comfort zone and raising the prospect of interest rate hikes. Here’s what Bloomberg Economics, BofA Securities, SBI Research and…

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