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Sharper, bigger RBI moves coming in December? SBI economists put things in perspective

IN · 2026-10-07

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Key takeaway

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  1. Step 1 · The triggerWithheld
  2. Step 2 · Knock-onIndian banks immediately reprice floating-rate lending spreads off the higher repo, transmitting the hike to SME working-capital and term-loan EMIs within one or two reset cycles
  3. Step 3 · Knock-onSMEs with high floating-rate exposure see interest cost rise, squeezing operating margin and forcing either price hikes to customers or working-capital stretch to suppliers
  4. Step 4 · Reaches youa subset of SMEs with thin interest coverage delay vendor payments or shrink inventory, creating a receivables and supply-chain ripple to their own downstream SME customers

The trigger is reported by the source below. The steps that follow are Branch²’s traced reasoning — how the shock could reach a business like yours, not a prediction.

Source: Economic Times — Economy

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