An interesting day et al

There has not been much change in the Stock Market outlook since I wrote last time. So I just thought that I will write some snippets which I found interesting. Today started and ended as an interesting day. I was to travel to Hyderabad for some company meetings and booked an UBER for the same. […]

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FISCAL CONSOLIDATION IS THE BIG STORY IN INDIA

Most analysts are missing the big picture of the India story which is becoming clearer and clearer by the day. Focussing on quarterly results, small upgrades and downgrades, state elections is taking the focus away from the key feature of the Modi Governments development model which was also summarized very well by Raghuram Rajan a […]

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BIHAR AND BEYOND

Well since Bihar is the topic of the season I also thought that I will write my two bit on what I see as the impact of the same on the Stock Markets, Economic Reforms, and Economic Recovery etc. My first and foremost view that I have held for some time is that Bihar is […]

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MARKETS ET AL

  I am writing after a few weeks as there was not much to write about as most things were moving as per expectations. I just thought that I would get together all thoughts as per the data and developments that we see around us and try to look at things going forward. The biggest […]

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DECOUPLING & MARKET OUTLOOK

I had written a piece on decoupling a couple of weeks back. Too may people are asking me today, where is the decoupling. It is those people who did not go through my argument properly. First and foremost is the fact that in panic and euphoria all markets are linked and as such if the […]

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STOCK MARKETS- LOOKING AHEAD

Stock Markets after ending flat for the first half of the year as I had expected started to show some life in July before cooling off driven by a Global Market correction as well as volatility inherent during the results season. The non performance or lack of movement in the parliament on various reform bills […]

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FED UP OF FED FEARS

More than a year back, in December 2013 I had written an article titled “Don’t Fear FED TAPER for the right reasons” (http://asksandipsabharwal.com/article/?p=974) . At that time there was extreme fear all around as to what will happen once the FED stops buying bonds from the markets. However given that the FED was taking the […]

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GREEK ISSUE IN A NUTSHELL

Once there was a person, his name was Greece. He had a habit of extravagant spending and once his own money got over he used to borrow and spend. He had a large number of well to do relatives who were happy to lend him money (Eurozone Countries). He kept on borrowing and they kept […]

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THE WORST IS OVER

I had become negative on the markets at the start of the 4th quarter of 2014. The reasons were not any long term negatives related to India but mainly because of the fact that the markets had run ahead of fundamentals, the expectations were  too high, the new government had just taken over and the […]

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MARKETS GETTING NEARER TO THE TROUGH

We are now 5 months into 2015 and the Indian Markets have gone up by just around 1.5% in these 5 months in INR terms and are almost flat in US Dollar terms. This, I accept is somewhat better than the scenario I initially thought would play out. However we still have one month to […]

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