0 abbreviation for repurchase rate: the interest rate for bonds, shares, etc. that are bought back under a repurchase agreement: --
This resulted in a sudden shortfall in the cash market resulting in short term repo rates in excess of 25%.
Repo and reverse repo rates were announced separately till the monetary policy statement in 3.5.2011.
The impact of this effect may well be limited, however, and depends on the extent to which increases in official repo rates cause increases in the user cost of money.
In this monetary policy statement, it has been decided that the reverse repo rate would not be announced separately but will be linked to repo rate.
The interest rate charged on such loans by a central bank is called the discount rate, base rate, or repo rate, and is separate and distinct from the prime rate.
The borrowing is commonly done via repos, where the repo rate is the rate at which the central bank lends short-term money to the banks against securities.
When the repo rate increases, borrowing from the central bank becomes more expensive.
The liquidity adjustment facility corridor, that is the excess of repo rate over reverse repo, has varied between 100 to 300 basis points.
