MUMBAI: India’s central bank defied expectations for an interest rate cut, keeping borrowing costs unchanged to assess the effect of its policy after five reductions this year.
The repurchase rate was left at 5.15% in a unanimous decision, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in a statement yesterday. None of the 43 economists surveyed by Bloomberg predicted the move.
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