Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Cut in Fixed Deposits rate by SBI



SBI, one of the country’s largest lender banks, has reduced rates on selected maturities prior to the review meeting of RBI on monetary policies scheduled on June18.
The bank has decided to revise its retail term deposit interest rates with a reduction of 0.25% in tenure up to 240 days, SBI said in a statement.

The Interest rate may come down to 7% from existing 7.25% on 7-179 days of fixed deposits. SBI has base rate or minimum lending rate of 10%. These were last revised by Bank in April where the rate was slashed about 1% on fixed deposits as a consequence of RBI’s decision to reduce the key interest rate by 0.5% up to 8% in its annual credit policy.

Even RBI Deputy Governor Subir Gokarn had said that there is a room to ease policy stance in the light of moderating growth and falling crude oil prices.



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