The Indian equity market is on fire with the benchmark BSE Sensex index reaching a new record high yesterday. The index rose 352 points or 0.95% to reach 37,336. Sustained capital inflows and India’s insulated economy from the impacts of Trump’s trade wars are fueling the surge in stocks. In dollar terms, the Sensex is up …
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Emerging markets are on fire this year. Many of these markets have soared much more than developed markets. Among the major emerging markets India is one of the top performers. The benchmark Sensex reached yet another record yesterday. The Sensex has shot up by 26.5% so far this year. This is higher than the equity …
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India is the 2nd most populous country in the world with a population of over 1.32 billion. Accordingly the population of the Indian states are comporable to the population of a whole country. The following neat graphic puts the population of Indian states in perspective: Click to enlarge Source: Aron Strandberg via Twitter
The Indian equity market is one of the best performing markets so far this year. The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex is up by over 17% year-to-date. Despite the strong gains, Morgan Stanley’s Jonathan Garner, the chief Asia and emerging markets equity strategist predicts the index may reach 34,000 by June, 2018 according to an article in …
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The S&P BSE SENSEX, the benchmark index of the Indian equity market is diversified but concentrated in a few sectors. The following chart shows the sector composition of the index: Click to enlarge Source:Sector Diversification through Index Linked Products, Indexology Blog The 30 constituents in the Sensex are from ten sectors as shown above. As …
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