Reserve Bank of India surprisingly leaves interest rates unchanged.

The Reserve Bank of India has held its benchmark repurchase interest rate at 7.75%. With inflation rising last month, economists had expected the RBI to hike the rate by a quarter of a percentage point. However, the bank cited projections that food costs, a main component of inflation, could soften. The RBI could act in the future but it wants more data first, while it also wants to support stuttering growth. Sensex jumped following the lack of action from the RBI.