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  Yemen Hospital Hit By Saudi-Led Air Strikes: Medecins Sans Frontieres

  A Yemeni hospital run by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was hit by a Saudi-led air strike, the group said today, another bombing of a civilian target in the seven-month air campaign in Yemen.

• Advance tax payout: RBI opens two-day borrowing window

  The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has opened a special a two-day borrowing window for banks under the marginal standing facility (MSF) to help meet the rising fund requirement from corporates for advance tax payments.

• Most on RBI panel backed rate hike ahead of last review

  Four of the Technical Advisory Committee's external members backed the rate increase, alongside a 25 basis point cut in the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate, minutes of a pre-policy meeting released on Thursday showed.

• Reserve Bank revises MSF borrowing window timings

  The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has revised timings for the marginal standing facility (MSF), a borrowing window for the banks, to help them improve liquidity management.

• Sensex soars over 300 points on RBI's steps to boost liquidity

  Traders said a hike in repo rate was factored by the Street, but RBI's announcement raising term repo to 0.5 per cent (of net demand and time liability) from 0.25 per cent earlier surprised the Street. Along with a 0.25 per cent cut in the Marginal Standing Facility (MSF), the raising of term repo limit will increase liquidity in the banking system...

• Don't assume rates will be hiked further: Raghuram Rajan

  Repo rate was hiked by 0.25 per cent to 7.75 per cent, as was widely expected, while Marginal standing facility (MSF) rate or overnight lending rate was cut by 0.25 per cent to 8.75 per cent.

• HSBC expects RBI to hike repo rate by 0.25 per cent

  Foreign brokerage HSBC has said it expects Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan to deliver on his promise to anchor inflationary expectations by hiking the repo rate by 0.25 per cent and cutting the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate by an equal measure in the apex bank's next monetary policy review on Tuesday, November 29.

• RBI likely to cut overnight lending rate: Assocham

  The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) has said the arrival of kharif crops and recent stability in the rupee will help bring down inflation, and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to take this into account and reduce the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate - at which banks borrow from it - in its upcoming pol...

• Analysts expect RBI to hike repo rate, cut MSF rate by 0.25 per cent

  According to the research arm of the country's largest lender State Bank of India, with stability in the currency, Dr Rajan is likely to lower the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate, at which the RBI lends to the banks, once the lenders exhaust their overnight repo borrowing limits.

• LIC Housing to raise Rs 200 crore by selling debt: report

  LIC Housing Finance is selling three-year bonds at 9.45 per cent, a source with direct knowledge of the deal told Reuters on Tuesday, marking a potential revival in corporate bond sales after issuance had slumped as the rupee fell to record lows.

• RBI move to curtail volatility, lower banks' borrowing cost: Assocham

  The RBI yesterday cut the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate, at which it lends emergency funds to banks, by 0.5 per cent to 9 per cent with an aim to improve liquidity and boost economic activities.

• RBI cuts short-term rate as rupee pressure eases

  Monday's cut in the MSF rate follows a 75 bps cut in the rate last month. The RBI's 200 bps increase in the MSF rate in July had tightened short-term market liquidity.

• Short-term debt funds may see higher returns on RBI steps: report

  Mutual fund schemes with short-term investment horizon like liquid or ultra-short-term funds are likely to witness higher returns going ahead following reduction in the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday, according to fund managers.

• Marginal standing facility will be lowered faster than repo rate hiked: RBI chief

  The Reserve Bank of India will lower its marginal standing facility (MSF) rate by more than any hike it makes in the policy repo rate in order to reduce the gap between them to 100 basis points, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan said on Friday.

• Banks borrow Rs. 500 lakh via RBI's MSF as on July 16

  Earlier this week, the Reserve Bank of India had raised the MSF rate, as part of the measures to address the rupee's weakness.