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It increased again to 8.0 per cent by January 2014, before declining to 6.0 per cent by August 2017. Furthermore, the deterioration in banking sector health due to worsening of asset quality over the past 2-3 years and the expected loan losses in credit portfolios also seem to have induced large variability in spreads in the pricing of assets.