Nepal’s Cement and Steel Mills Run at a Third of Capacity. That Is the Real Read on the Property Market.
A cement plant cannot pretend. A kiln either runs hot and turns limestone into clinker, or it sits idle and ...
Thursday, November 12, 2026
Tag: NRB
NRB’s Interest Rate Corridor: How Nepal Sets the Price of Money
EDITOR NOTE: Unverified items: (1) the 2022/23 corridor settings (bank rate 8.5 percent, policy rate 7.0 percent, deposit collection rate ...
Loan Loss Provisioning: The Line That Quietly Cuts Bank Profit
In August 2026, Nepal's 20 commercial banks reported their best year in a while. Combined net profit for FY 2082/83 ...
Inflation and Your Savings: The Real Return Nepali Savers Ignore
Ask a Nepali saver how their fixed deposit is doing and you will get one number. "4.5 percent." Ask what ...
What Happens to Your Money if a Nepali Bank Fails: Deposit Insurance
A retired teacher in Pokhara gets her pension lump sum, NPR 40 lakh, and does the careful thing. No cooperative, ...
CASA Ratio: Why Cheap Deposits Decide Which Nepali Bank Wins
Two Nepali banks can lend at the same rate, to the same kind of borrower, with the same bad-loan ratio, ...
The Asar-End Crunch: Why Nepali Banks Scramble Every Fiscal Year
If you follow Nepali bank staff on any messaging app in the second week of Asar, you already know the ...
Why NEPSE Tightens Around Dashain: The Festival Liquidity Effect
Every autumn, someone on an investor Facebook group posts the same question. Should I buy before Dashain for the rally, ...
NRN Dollar Accounts and Investing in Nepal: What’s Allowed
An engineer in Sydney decides to put some money into Nepal. He does the natural thing. He wires AUD into ...
How to Read NRB’s Monetary Policy Like an Investor
Every year around late Asar, an investor somewhere in Kathmandu refreshes the Nepal Rastra Bank website every few minutes, waiting ...
