By keeping CRR, SLR and the Policy Rates unchanged,RBI has lost an opportunity for creating a positive sentiment in the markets and industry.
The signal corporate India was looking for remains illusive and focus on growth has still not come back. While inflation concern remains, a symbolic gesture by reducing the rates and or the CRR could have created a virtuous cycle of positive sentiment.
Few favouable statements regarding not hiking poliy rates in the near future, keeps the hopes alive for an early action..may be in January 2012,itself.