Jalan also said that he would cut the cash reserve ratio by 2 percentage points in two phases, on Nov . 5 and Dec . 5, to increase the funds available with the banks to lend.
32.
In one fell swoop, Jalan raised the Bank Rate by 200 basis points to 11 per cent and the cash reserve ratio ( CRR ) of commercial banks by 50 basis points to 10 . 5 per cent.
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Banks could use balances maintained under the cash reserve ratio ( CRR ) and the intra-day liquidity ( IDL ) to be supplied by the central bank, for meeting any eventuality arising out of the real time gross settlement ( RTGS ).
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Last week, the central bank announced a two-phase hike in the cash reserve ratio _ the proportion of deposits that commercial banks must hold in cash _ to suck out excess liquidity in the system, which it said may be fueling inflation.
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The bank will also lower the cash reserve ratio-- or the amount commercial banks are required to keep on deposit with the central bank-- to 8 percent from 10 percent in eight stages of 0.25 percentage point each through March 28, 1998.
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The NAVs of Kothari Pioneer, UTI's and IDBI's money market funds have been increasing exponentially ( offering annualised yields of around 34 per cent ) since 16 January as a result of RBI's move to raise the cash reserve ratios for the banks.
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The bank will also lower the cash reserve ratio-- or the amount commercial banks are required to keep on deposit with the central bank-- to 8 percent from 10 percent in eight stages of 0 . 25 percentage point each through March 28, 1998.
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In case of policy shocks consisting of a sudden positive ( negative ) change in banking policy rates such as the statutory liquidity ratio, cash reserve ratio or the repo rates, the fiscal authority initially reacts by following expansionary ( contractionary ) policy but subsequently reverses.
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In this example the cash reserves held by the bank is NZ $ 3, 010m ( NZ $ 201m Cash + NZ $ 2, 809m Balance at Central Bank ) and the Demand Deposits ( liabilities ) of the bank are NZ $ 25, 482m, for a cash reserve ratio of 11.81 %.
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The central bank's key measures were; hiking the bank rate by 200 basis points to 11 per cent, raising the cash reserve ratio by 50 basis points to 10.5 per cent to mop up Rs2, 500 crore from the system, slashing export and general refinance limits, doubling import surcharge to 30 per cent and lifting the repos rate to 9 per cent from 7 per cent.
