LOCKDOWN DIARIES THE GROWING MARKETS & ECONOMY DISCONNECT- WHAT WILL BE THE END GAME

After the brutal selloff in March we saw the markets staging a strong pullback in April to finally give up a large part of the gains in May. The Indian Market behaviour is not in line with a majority of other markets where the selloff has not been so severe. India is one of the […]

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LOCKDOWN DIARIES-DAY 35 – INDIA AN OPPORTUNITY LOST

As we entered into the Lockdown with an Economy that had been growing below par for several years there was initially a view that we could possibly emerge out of this stronger and India as an Economy and one contributing towards a possible replacement of global supply chains as people shift out from China as […]

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LOCKDOWN DIARIES- DAY 30 ECONOMIC OUTLOOK CONTINUES TO DETERIORATE

We are into Day 30 of the Lockdown now. Stock Markets over the last few days have been gyrating in a range with days of big sell offs followed by bounce backs as Market participants try to grapple with global newsflow and domestic developments. FB investment into Reliance created a significant rally in that stock […]

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LOCKDOWN DIARIES- DAY 25 A WEEK OF HOPE

The last week as we went through the first phase of the Lockdown2 can be called one that of hope. The number of new cases in India have stopped accelerating, recoveries have picked up and the number of testing has increase on a daily basis. Global stock markets help up well this week and newsflow […]

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LOCKDOWN DIARIES- DAY 23 PULL BACK RALLY STALLS

Over the last three days the Stock Markets have tried to stage a rally but the rally has stalled in most countries as the severity of the economic impact has started to set in. One of the major reasons that the markets need to give up some gains is because the pull back rallies have […]

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LOCKDOWN DIARIES – DAY 18- ECONOMIC IMPACT IS SEVERE PULLBACK RALLY TO STALL

This is Day 18 of the Lockdown which was supposed to be 3 days before the original lockdown ended. However in the conference call with the PM today most of the CM’s have asked for an extension till the 30th of April which I think is Fait Accompli now. The economic and market impact need […]

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LOCKDOWN DIARIES – DAY 15 A BEGINNING OF THE END ( No not of the world)

I decided to write after a gap of a day as usually it is tough to find new things to write every day and for the content to be useful and different. The last two days have been interesting in more ways than one. Day before I had written that markets will start moving up […]

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LOCKDOWN DAY 13 DIARIES – PEAKING OF BAD NEWS?

We are now into Day 13 of the nationwide lockdown. From the Stock Markets perspective we are also in a three day weekend which is good in a sense as there has been no Stimulus News from the Government and the Economy continues to be in a complete lockdown as such the trading is biased […]

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LOCKDOWN DAY 11 DIARIES – STATUS QUO CONTINUES

We are now into Day 11 of the nationwide lockdown. While the lockdown overall in India has been quite diligently followed and many cities and towns are almost totally shutdown. The main countries to monitor have been Italy and Spain to see when the curve flattens and starts to turn down. In India the average […]

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LOCKDOWN DAY 9 DIARIES – A TOUGH TWO DAYS

We are now into Day 9 of the nationwide lockdown. While the lockdown overall in India has been quite diligently followed and many cities and towns are almost totally shutdown there have been areas of concern that have come about over the last two days of specific localized infections of Covid19 in a few places […]

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