Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan said on Friday the central bank’s policy was to supply markets with “plentiful” liquidity and said it could “perhaps” do more open market purchases of bonds, depending on long-term liquidity needs.
The comments, at a news briefing after the RBI’s board meeting, come after the RBI this week bought Rs. 10,000 crore ($1.50 billion) worth of debt, in its first purchases since October.
On the U.S. Federal Reserve meeting next week, Rajan said the central bank also expected not more than a 25-basis-point hike in U.S. interest rates, as signaled by market consensus, adding the RBI was ready for “any eventuality.
