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'India's 10-yr sovereign yield may be 6.40% by March 2022'
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SME Times News Bureau | 25 Feb, 2021
As bond yields continue to rise, India's 10-year
sovereign yield is likely to rise from 6.00 per cent in March 2021 to
6.40 per cent by March 2022, said a report by Acuite Ratings and
Research.
It said that the 10-year G-Sec yield bottomed out at an
average level of 5.82 per cent in July 2020. Since then, it has been
gradually creeping up, with over 16 bps of up move happening in 2021 so
far.
"With FY21 coming to a close, we now expect the 10Y G-sec
yield to trade close to 6.00 per cent levels (vis-a-vis our earlier
estimate of 5.85 per cent) by Mar-21 on account of wider than
anticipated fiscal deficit in FY21 and FY22," it said.
With
borrowing requirement remaining high, the RBI is likely to continue
supporting the bond market through OMO purchases and Operation 'Twist'.
In FY21 so far, the RBI has absorbed 28 per cent of the net G-sec
supply.
A similar response would be warranted from the central
bank in FY22 to ensure non- disruptive conclusion of government's
borrowing programme.
"Taking all the above into account, we
expect the 10-year G-sec yield to increase towards 6.15 per cent
(vis-a-vis our previous estimate of 6.00 per cent) by Sep-21 and further
towards 6.40 per cent (vis-a-vis our previous estimate of 6.20 per
cent) by Mar-22," it said.
As per the report, the hardening of
yield has played out despite the continuation of status quo on policy
rates along with reiteration of accommodative policy stance, and sharp
deceleration in CPI inflation.
It noted that while the RBI's
Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has maintained status quo since May
2020, the forward guidance on continuing with the accommodative stance
as long as necessary, to revive growth on a durable basis and mitigate
the economic impact of Covid, got unanimously reiterated in the last
policy review in February 2021.
With retail inflation
decelerating sharply over Dec-Jan FY21, there is a strong likelihood
that average inflation in FY22 would come lower to 5.0 per cent despite
increase in global commodity prices and some demand led inflation from
the anticipated strong V-shaped economic recovery, the report said.
"This
is likely to provide some comfort to the MPC, which saw inflation
remaining above their tolerance threshold (at 6.0 per cent) for major
part of CY 2020," it said.
The pressure on G-sec term premium has
been building up during the course of FY21 as the effective monetary
policy rate switched to reverse repo amidst excess liquidity conditions,
while market participants factored in risks of Covid-led substantial
fiscal slippage, it said.
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Customs Exchange Rates |
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Import |
Export |
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UK Pound
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87.50
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84.65 |
Euro
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78.25
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75.65 |
Japanese
Yen |
58.85 |
56.85 |
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