The repo rate now stands 50 basis points higher at 5.9%, with other rates going up by the same magnitude. An ET poll of economists and investors had pegged the rate increase at 50 bps. Retail inflation is hovering at a multi-year high, having touched 7% in August and likely to have accelerated further in September.
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