Reserve Bank of India cuts key interest rate for the first time in 5 years, leading to lower home, auto and other loan rates. Read more.

The RBI rate cut will help improve loan affordability and boost housing demand. Lower interest rates will benefit existing and new home loan borrowers.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its key interest rate for the first time in nearly five years on February 7. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which consists of three RBI and three external members, cut the repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.25% after having kept it unchanged for eleven straight policy meetings.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reduced its key repo rate on Friday for the first time since May 2020, aiming to provide stimulus to the sluggish economy, which is projected to grow at its slowest pace in four years during the current fiscal year.

On Friday, February 7, the Reserve Bank of India decided to use its scissors, now rusty, to cut the repo rate or the country's interest rate, by 25 basis points, bringing it down to 6.25 per cent, compared to its previous 6.

India’s new central bank governor cut interest rates for the first time in almost five years on Friday to help spur a slowing economy as global risks intensify.

India's central bank is widely expected to cut interest rates for the first time in nearly five years in Governor Sanjay Malhotra's first monetary policy review on Friday, aiming to boost economic growth which is seen falling to a four-year low.

The Reserve Bank of India is expected to trim the interest rate by 25 basis points to 6.25% at the policy meeting concluding Friday, in what would be its first rate cut in nearly five years. Indian government bonds have rallied in recent weeks,