RBI Monetary Policy 2025: RBI Repo Rate Remains at 5.5%

In the recent RBI monetary policy update, the Reserve Bank of India announced to keep the repo rate unchanged at 5.50%, making India proud with a slapping answer by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, who came out swinging against Trump's latest tariff threats.

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The RBI governor, Mr. Sanjay Malhotra, announced the RBI's monetary policy today, 6 August 2025, keeping the RBI repo rate at 5.50% as earlier.

It stated that the changes in RBI Repo Rate were already frontloaded, easing through both a rate cut and a 100 CPR reduction done this year.

Moreover, the RBI policy stance remains "Neutral". meaning the standing deposit facility (SDF) rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) remains unchanged at 5.25%, where marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and bank rate at 5.75%.

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However, it is a well-thought-out decision after the U.S. President, Donald Trump, announced to increase the tariff to 25% on imports from India, aiming to achieve the medium-term target for consumer price index (CPI) inflation of 4% within a band of +/-2 per cent, all along supporting growth of the entire country.

In the June RBI policy, the central bank’s MPC surprised with a bumper 50 basis points (bps) cut in the repo rate to 5.50% from 6%. The RBI MPC changed the policy stance to ‘Neutral’ from ‘Accommodative’, and also slashed the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) by 100 bps to 3% from 4% earlier.

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Amidst this, Modi has urged the Indians to buy more and more local goods to offset any slump in the global demand, gathering together to put forward a strong foothold against these external threats.