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Why India will not follow Brazil in cutting rates

Given the sharp deterioration in the global economic outlook in the past couple of months, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will give serious consideration to downside risks to growth when it meets on Friday. Nonetheless, for several reasons we doubt India will follow Brazil’s lead in cutting interest rates. On the contrary, we still expect a further 25bp rate hike.

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