Indian Stocks Fall to One-Week Low; State Bank Leads Decline
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Indian stocks dropped to a one-week low, led by lenders, after the central bank said an adviser favored higher interest rates.
State Bank of India, the biggest lender, fell the most in five weeks. A member of an advisory panel on monetary policy recommended last month that the repurchase rate be raised by half a percentage point instead of one quarter, to slow inflation, according to the Reserve Bank of India’s minutes of a Jan. 19 meeting released yesterday. ICICI Bank Ltd., the second-biggest, declined 2 percent.