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    • Back to normal: RBI puts up long-term govt bonds for sale

      The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will put up four government bonds of different tenures and interest rates for sales to raise Rs 15,000 crore on August 08, 2013. Unlike the previous auction announcement, the central bank apparently brought back normalcy by including some long term securities.

    • Bank-borrowings from RBI repo window hit 9-month low

      Bank-borrowings from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday dropped to nine-month low. Banks borrowed Rs 17,215 crore from the central bank's daily repo window compared with Rs 6,850 crore recorded on October 04, 2012. In banking parlance, it is called as easing in liquidity deficit.

    • Here's why bond market trading was suspended for 45 min

      Indian government bonds on Thursday hit the lower circuit on the back of excessive selling by foreign institutional investors (FII), who were lured by lower US Treasury bond prices. Trading was frozen on Thursday for about 45 minute between 9.15am and 10am, traders said.

    • Floating rate term deposits: Will it benefit a common man

      Floating rate interest on retail term deposits, while a popular product in the US and Europe, is mostly unheard of India. State-owned IDBI Bank on Wednesday launched such a scheme, which will be benchmarked to the average yield of 364-day treasury bill auctions undertaken by RBI during the preceding three months. Should you subscribe to it?

    • RBI dose for rupee; ECB limit, FII holding in G-Secs hiked

      In a bid to check rupee‘s free falling against the US dollar, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday hiked the limit of external commercial borrowing by USD10 billion. Moreover, the regulator also increased the limit of overseas investment in government bonds by $5 billion to $20 billion.

    • Will private players struggle to tap bond market in FY13

      The country is likely to see fewer bond issuances by companies this financial year because of the prevailing stagflation and high government borrowing, says Arvind Konar, head-fixed income, Almondz Global Securities. Stagflation is when inflation remains high despite a slowing economy.

    • Rupee liquidity: RBI to buyback G-secs worth Rs 12,000 cr

      In a bid to ease the tightening liquidity situation the Reserve Bank of India will conduct open market operations (OMO) by buying back government bonds aggregating Rs 12,000 crore on Friday (May 25). The rupee‘s free falling against the US dollar has led to a crisis in rupee liquidity in the economy.

    • RBI announces borrowing plan; bond yield unlikely to move

      The RBI on Tuesday issued the government borrowing calendar for marketable dated securities (or government bonds in simple term) for the first half of the fiscal year 2012-13. In between April and September, 2012, the government will sell bonds worth Rs 3.70 lakh crore (gross) out of its budgeted target of Rs 5.69 lakh for the full year.

    • Tax-free infra bonds kick in: should you invest?

      Currently, Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) and L&T Infrastructure Finance, both engaged into infra lending business, are running two retail issues offering 9% rate of interest per annum. Should you invest?

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