Widely read:
The interest rates on small sovereign savings products have been reduced sharply. This is a result of the sharp reduction in the repo rate that the Monetary Policy Committee has affected in its meeting on 26th March. The way savings rates are determined now, this linkage is more or less automatic as the rates on such savings schemes are fixed every quarter based on yields on government bonds. The sharp reduction is a result of the Reserve Bank of India cutting interest rates by 0.75 %, taking the repo rate to 4.4 percent.
