Sunday, October 9, 2011

Global ripples are being felt in Indian markets: JM Financial

I do not think there is a recession because India is a growth story. Looking at the global scenario, one can see that the global ripples are being felt in India, plus there are local problems which are already covering from the political side as well as some policy-related issues are there. If we are able to address the policy-related issues first, that will be a big kick-start.

Also, we have been tackling inflation with interest rate hike. These are the local medicines which are trying to give that food inflation is tackled by interest hike. That is getting too much out of the hand because on that the industry is having big problem because their balance sheets are having big interest burdens. The capex and the borrowings and various other things are coming to bigger problems.

So if there is a policy decision of resting or interest rate hike not going more, at the same time, if we are able to get more inflows, which can come only if we take some policy decisions and kick-start some reforms, get the industry going, then the money will flow in, the rupee will appreciate and we will be slightly better off.

Because on one side, when the crude has come down 10-15%, the rupee has depreciated 10%. So it is getting offsetted. So all these problems can be resolved in a very systematic manner and we need to take those systematic steps in order to reduce our burdens so that the inflation and liquidity do not create any problems.

So the story of how Indian markets have moved in the month of October, what will influence the script -- global factors/commodity prices or local factors like earnings and interest rates?

If you have to look at India, then you will have to look at the Indian companies and when you look at the Indian companies, then you have to look at their earnings. So earnings are governed by the interest component into those particular companies.

So if that interest component goes up, naturally the earnings cannot sustain if there is no growth into those companies. The second point is that when the global flows are flowing and if there are disruption in, say, Greek or Italy or European nature, then those flows do not flow very smoothly and it creates interruptions. So we are in that turbulent time of interruptions

                                                                            NIRAJ KUMAR
                                                                         PGDM 3RD.SEM
                                                                  

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