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Friday, October 10, 2008

Montek and Chidambaram mock India’s Economic Scenario

Montek Singh and Mr. Chidambaram for past few days have been giving some really exaggerating statements about the economy. They continue to assert that Indian economy will grow at 8%. Now, how that suppose to happen. The global credit lending is expected to come down drastically during next year and India desperately needs it to continue its infrastructure and capex. Indian companies were already raising debt for international market as credit rates in India were high. How are Indian companies expected to grow at same rate in this inconducive economic environment? Plus they were quick to add how fundamentally strong Indian economy is.

How come economy be fundamentally strong where commodities are playing havoc to the economy, crude prices have endangered the aviation sector and is pushing inflation, housing boom is about to go bust with high credit rates and our exports are threatened due to global slowdown. They were not done yet, they made another comment on liquidity situation.

Yes there is liquidity problem, there are not many ready to lend to consumers and corporates are finding it hard to credit at lower rate (which is next to impossible). There is credit problem in the economy, but what about the money that FIIs have brought into the market by selling share and converting them into dollars! The problem, we don’t think is of liquidity in the capital markets but of leveraging and speculation on cheaply borrowed money. Now that it is difficult to leverage and get cheap credit there aren’t many players to do so in the stock markets. So, we have more and more selling and less numbers of buyers.

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