Wednesday, November 26, 2008

==>> $800 bn new bailout program

Fed have yet again announced new Resuce program of $800 bn to unfreeze credit for home buyers, comsumers and small businesses. The Central will purchase as much as $600 bn in debt issued by housing finance companies. And $200 bn will give a support to consumer and small business loans. If the worry is that will this be enough to solve the problems created in the US. If the major Financial services provider like Lehman, US top bank like CITI, automobile giant GM, can go bankcrupt, there could me many more like them. Rumors in the market, that BOA can be the next in the line for the Resuce help from the US govt. US housing prices are still falling. There will be more job losses in US. China is facing severe export losses. US was the major clinets for its exports. The Finanacial crisis in US have dropped the imports form China. India have been saved from this masacared, because the exports is very small compared to China.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

==>> Pakistan gets IMF funding....

Smartest Financial service house has got a support from the US Govt of $326 bn. Citi has received US govt guarantees of $306bn that will help it sell the sticky assets and irrecoverable mortgages on its books and $20bn in cash. The International Monetary Fund approved a $7.6bn bailout package to help prevent Pakistan from defaulting on its debt. IMF Financing will help rebuild its foreign-exchange reserves which shrank 75% in a year to $3.5bn.
Oil prices bounced back by around 9%. Gold too should its shine. Dow Jones closed above at nearly4%, as mentioned that the Dow has a good support at 7500 levels. Nifty too can touch 3000 levels in the bounce back.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Yesterday we saw a nosedive drop in the US markets. Dow fell down to its 5 yr low and Nasdaq at its 6 yr low. S&P fell the most at 11 yr low. Dow Jones has a support at 7500 levels, as we have seen the Dow bouncing back at the same levels after the 9/11 incident. US Umployement claims increased by 20,000. Crude fell down at 48$ per barrel.
Rupee is rushing towards 51.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

==>> Inflation fears

I just read an article in the leading news paper named " Subprimes's dad? Deflation will be worst..."
Yes thats very true. Almost all the major developed countries have falled in the recession. Now its time for the Japan to get in to the news.
Japan's exports declined at the fastest pace in almost in seven years in Oct on back of global financial crisis. Imports climbed 7.4 percent, causing a trade deficit of 63.9 billion yen ($666 million), the third shortfall this year. Crude prices have been fallen and it is almost at the jan 2007 levels. This will give some breather to the oil companies in India. But the same could be a problem for the Arab countries, as they are tryin hard to keep the prices stable. They had cut down the production to keep the price at 100$ per barrel, but the price kept on falling as there is unexpected rise in crude inventory in US.
Sobha developers have reduced prices by 8% for their major projects. WOULD THEY BE ABLE TO SELL NOW?? This questions is still there in the minds of everyone. No they will not be able to... Genuine buyers will wait for atleast price depreciation by 35-40%. and that is possible. Mkt capital of DLF is around Rs. 9000 Crs. but their debt is around Rs.14700 Crs.
Rupee has been falling like crazy on the speculation that the FII's are in rush to withdraw their money from India.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008


The Govt has imposed 5% import duty on some iron and steel products and a 20% duty on crude soyabean oil. This will make the import costlier and will help the domestic industry sell their products without much of competition. But that will surely depend on the demand. Demand for the real estate are drastically down. This has lead to slowdown in the real estate and connected sectors with the same. Constantly in the Last few months this blog has been informing the reader that no investment should be made in the Real estate and Banking stocks, as these will be the worst performer in this year. Real estate prices have not yet come down. Off Diwali, the Developers have tried to stabalise the price, but seeing fall in the demand. Major steel companies have been reducing their output. Demand for the vehicles have also been coming sown. Honda have managed to sell some 230 odd Hybrid cars at Rs.8 lacs, which was previously priced at Rs.24 lacs.

RBI have tried to provide enough liquidity in the market.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

==>> Mkts in a Roller coster ride

Yesterday Globally, equity markets were in the red India have been the worst performer in Asia. Indian markets tanked nearly 7%. Sensex closed at 9839 and Nifty closed below at 2938.
In the UK, home sales fell to a near 30-year low, due to the tight credit conditions. China reported the slowest export growth in the last 17 month. In Japan export fell by 10% in first 20 days in Oct.
Export duty collections in India dropped down by 8.7%. Cutoms duties down by around 1%.

Monday, November 10, 2008

==>> China unveils USD 586 bn package

The Sensex rose 571.87 points or 5.74%, to close at 10,536.16, after hitting an intraday high of 10,570.58. The 50-share Nifty Fifty gained 175.25 points or 5.89%, to settle at 3148.25. It has hit a high of 3161.25.
It was a spectacular session for the markets. Positive global cues led by announcement of China's USD 586 billion economic stimulus package, helped benchmark indices to remain strong. However, volumes have been quite tepid at around Rs 44,000 crore. Metal sector was the leader in today's rally followed by power, capital goods, telecom, oil & gas and technology sectors. Midcap and small cap stocks were also in the limelight.
China will unveil a USD 586 billion economic stimulus package by 2010 that will be spent on upgrading its infrastructure, on land reforms and social welfare projects. The package is nearly 15% of China's GDP versus that of 1.2% during the Asian Crisis in 1998. China's GDP growth slowed to 9% in Q3CY08 versus 10.4% in H1CY08 and the Shanghai Composite Index had hit a 26-month closing low of 1,706.7 last week.
Major Asian markets posted strong rally. Shanghai closed higher by 7.27% and Nikkei jumped 5.81%. Hang Seng rose 3.52%. Straits Times and Kospi were up 1-1.6%. Jakarta and Taiwan ended flat.

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

BARAK OBAMA elected 44th President. IT stocks will be a cautious thing to be played with. As Obama is not in favour of out source. And one of the major sector that has been outsourced to India is IT, and the Rupee also bounced back US stocks raliied up. Us markets have closed above 3% each. SGX Nifty trading at 3230 levels.
Yesterday Rupee bounced back sharply from its recent low. Bank rate cuts on the card. Experts see Oil price rate cut also.

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

==>> RBI moves helped regained Equity market

Rbi moves have helped India markets to gain around 35% from the recent lows. The cuts in the CRR, Repo rate and the SLR have bought the investors back in the markets. The stability in the global markets has also led to the revival in the sentiment. Yesterday Sensex opened with a strong note and closed above 10,000 mark for the first time in last 2 months. Sensex saw a sharp recovery of 5.6% or 550 points. Good recovery seen in the Reality Index and the banking Index. FII's were net buyers of Rs. 365 Crs.
Technically Nifty has taken a good support at the trendline. Yes it closed below the trendline for 2 days, but the smart recovery was seen after that. Nifty has also bounced back from the oversold zone.