Infrastructure financing stocks surged over 5% after the RBI reduced risk weights on NBFC lending to infrastructure projects, aiming to lower financing costs. Concurrently, the RBI kept the repo rate unchanged at 5.5%, revised FY26 inflation downward to 2.6%, and raised the FY26 GDP growth forecast to 6.8%.
Banks unlikely to reduce deposit rates despite RBI easing
Following the latest repo rate decrease, bankers foresee only slight adjustments to deposit rates. The landscape, characterized by sluggish savings yields and elevated credit-deposit ratios,