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Equity Markets Round Up: June 2020 The equity markets continued their rally of the past two months in the month of June. MSCI India (USD) performed broadly in line with the MSCI EM (USD) index, and was up 6.6% during the month. The Nifty was up 7.5% during the month. This rally was despite rating […]

Equity Markets Round Up: May 2020 Globally, equity markets continued their strong recovery from lows reached in late March despite escalation in US-China tensions as the US government threatened to delist Chinese companies and China’s signing of HK security legislation. This was led by extremely easy financial conditions, gradual opening up of the economies around […]

Equity Markets Round Up: April 2020 After a very poor performance in the month of March, when global equity markets were almost all down (the MSCI EM index (USD) and the MSCI World index were both down over 13% in March), equity markets staged a smart rally in the month of April. The MSCI EM […]

Equity Markets Round Up: March 2020: Covid-19 contagion took centre stage during the month as the number of cases rose 9 fold to over 800,000 by end-March led by US (>160k) and Europe. Market moves were very sharp, taking just one month for the fall in asset prices that in previous cycles took a year […]

During the month global markets were impacted by the news flow around Coronavirus (COVID-19) as cases spread beyond China to countries in East Asia and then to Italy, Iran and the US. The market falls were broad based as 38 of 40 major equity markets ended down. The MSCI All Country World index (USD) was […]