Saturday, January 16, 2021

Recovery from the Pandemic and the Farmers share in value...

The RBI has loads of dollars, foreign exchange reserve which could be used to capitalise banks... Strong rupee could increase foreign capital inflows and cheaper imports and domestic inflation also due to lower oil prices... Lower prices increase competitiveness and demand in the economy and exports... which could help maintain stable interest rate...   

 

During covid it is important to maintain some inflation to keep up demand and spending and help increase supply...

 

Farmers need share in value addition at every stage from raw materials to intermediate to finished product and in bidding and auction too, till it reaches the consumer... It would be profitable that Famers decide prices on the basis of cost...

 

Why the government decides the prices of grains...? The Farmers must be provided the capacity to hold and slowly sell on price rises... Small and marginal Farmers should be benefited by the market system and be able to sell directly to the urban retailers at very low cost...

 

The FDI in multi brand retail was allowed only to increase procurement by the large companies directly with mandated local sourcing... The transport cost must be low...

 

Short run is more predictable than the counter view that long run is more certain therefore the long run premium is higher than the short run, which is wrong... We could tell what could happen in a month or three on the basis of data, but difficult to tell what could happen in the next 5 or 10 years...

 

 Stock Market investors shall give little importance to day to day news and stick to the longrun story and invest more at corrections... Analysts say that investors need to follow the stock specific cycle and not the market cycle which could affect the stock market cycle too, especially the index stocks...

 

People wrongly believe that they shall buy when they expect that the market would go up, but contrary to it when they buy the market increases, though if they hold and wait for lower prices it would increase supply and lower prices... Investors shall try to gauge the majority rational expectations... which might turn a reality... Rational expectations are very important for investment decisions...

 

Correction means more investment... Lower prices increase demand and price expectations...  Guv Das view is for short term investors, there could be an imminent correction... From a 2 to 5 year perspective the outlook is good... The RBI too lower interest rate to increase demand...

 

The stock market is always suspected for bubble coz it runs on liquidity by the central bank, higher liquidity means higher stock price valuations therefore the market has responded sharply V shaped recoup with the liquidity support ahead of the broader economy and the RBI still in accommodative mode... Nonetheless, the market cap to gdp ratio is low compared the revival saw after the 2008 crisis...

 

Higher inflation due to supplyside disruption has helped increase margins and earnings of the companies... Higher inflation means higher margins and earnings... which have also pushed the stock market high... As long as the central bank maintains an accommodative stance the party at the Dalal Street might continue...

 

Lower prices in the stock market increased investment demand (after the Mar correction) while higher prices in the broader economy due to supply disruption and lockdown which hit the consumers demand, too... Higher unemployment has again hit the consumption story... Unless prices in the broader economy correct a little bit due to lower cost and higher productivity and supply and higher income, consumption demand may remain low...

 

Since more people than a million are adding to the labourforce every month then how can production remain low with more consumption and investment demand and spending and stable and accommodative monetary policy... 2021-22 would be more prosperous than 2020-21....

 

Modiji's attempts to curb corruption have been failed manytimes like to reduce back money in the economy that has skewed the inequality through demonetisation, but it turned out to be a bigger scandal by banks... Without sweeping reforms to cut down on corruption all would go down the drain which would further increase inequality and abuse of power and position...

 

Economists may give hope to the investors to keep investing in the economy that might help... The stock market investors and even FPIs are an important source of growth and must be saved; now not only rich, but many more people invest in the stocks...

 

Recently, BofA said that credit growth is bottoming out but growth could remain weak… Nonetheless, if the credit growth is bottoming out the growth would follow... If business or investors buy or demand or spend when prices and cost are low and sell or supply when prices are high they would gain and that would also help achieve stable prices and full employment... 

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