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CIO comments on RBI Bi-monthly Policy, 1 August, 2018
CIO comments on RBI Bi-monthly Policy, 1 August, 2018
2nd Aug, 2018
RBI hikes rates, and maintains status quo on policy stance, as broadly expected
The RBI Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) hiked the policy rate by 25 bps (with five MPC members voting for a rate hike and one voting against). It maintained its ‘neutral’ monetary policy stance, as broadly expected.
RBI Repo Rate Vs 10 year yield
Source: Bloomberg
RBI revised the CPI headline inflation forecast marginally upwards for H2 FY19 to 4.8% (from the earlier forecast of 4.7% in June policy review), and the projection for Q1 FY20 is 5%—with risks evenly balanced. The central bank said that inflation outlook has been shaped by the following factors:
Part of the MSP hikes based on historical trends was already included in the June forecast for inflation, and only the incremental increase will impact inflation. However, there is considerable uncertainty and the exact impact would depend on the nature and scale of government’s procurement.
Overall progress of monsoons so far, augurs well for food inflation.
Crude oil prices have moderated slightly, but still remain elevated.
Core inflation (ex food & fuel) has picked up considerably in recent months and been broad-based, reflecting greater pass-through of input prices and improving demand conditions.
GST rates have recently been reduced for quite a few products, and this will have moderating impact on inflation, provided there is direct pass-through to retail consumers.
On the economic front, the RBI has retained the GDP forecast of 7.4% for FY19 (with risks evenly balanced), and projection for Q1 FY20 GDP growth is 7.5%. The central bank also added that rising trade protectionism poses a grave risk to near-term and long-term global growth prospects. Geopolitical tensions and elevated oil prices also continue to be the other sources of risk to global growth.
Market Outlook:
RBI policy action was broadly along expected lines. What has probably been read favourably by the market (and led to some respite in bond yields) is that CPI headline inflation forecast for H2 FY19 has hardly been changed from the earlier monetary policy (only revised upwards by 10 bps), despite the MSP hikes. However, the RBI maintained that uncertainty still remains on the inflation front and it needs to be monitored closely.
We feel that future monetary policy action will continue to be data dependent. With the yield curve being flattish, we continue to prefer the shorter end of the yield curve.
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