Indian economy demonstrates resilience despite increased volatility amid re-escalating tensions in West Asia: RBI

RBI reported movement of 7.8% and 4.8%. Those are the figures as filed — what moves the price is how they sit against what the market already expected, not their absolute size.

This is a Rate / liquidity policy event. Rate direction moves bank margins and the discount rate applied to every long-duration asset. The commentary usually matters more than the decision, which is often already priced.

Because the driver here is macro rather than company-specific, the read-through is to index-level positioning rather than to any single name — correlations tend to rise when the whole market faces the same signal.