January 19, 2016 7:03 AM

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RBI to buy up to Rs 10,000 cr of govt bonds

The Reserve Bank has said, it will purchase up to 10,000 crore rupees worth of government bonds through an auction to infuse long-term liquidity in the banking system. The auction scheduled for tomorrow is the second such auction in the current financial year.RBI has offered to buy four government securities for a total value of 10,000 crore rupees saying that the move is based on its assessment of prevailing and evolving liquidity conditions. The move has arrived at a time when liquidity deficit has risen to 1-1.5 trillion rupees and banks are borrowing heavily through term repos and daily repo tenders as well.

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