HUDCO, PFC, and Ireda shares jump up to 5% as RBI eases infrastructure financing norms

Infrastructure financing stocks surged over 5% after the RBI reduced risk weights on NBFC lending to infrastructure projects, aiming to lower financing costs. Concurrently, the RBI kept the repo rate unchanged at 5.5%, revised FY26 inflation downward to 2.6%, and raised the FY26 GDP growth forecast to 6.8%.