Keeps Key Rates Unchanged, Maintains Status Quo The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has come out with its First Bi-monthly Monetary Policy review (2018-19), wherein, it maintained status quo on the policy rates while keeping a neutral stance but mentioned about lurking inflationary threat, fiscal slippage, global crude oil price volatility, financial market volatility and potential trade wars which poses a threat to the outlook. The decision of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is consistent with the objective of achieving the medium-term target for consumer price index (CPI) inflation of 4% within a band of +/- 2%, while supporting growth. Following are the policy measures and vital announcements by the RBI. The RBI has kept the Repo Rate under the Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) unchanged at 6.00% in its first bi-monthly policy for...