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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 […]

Developed market equities were virtually flat during January outperforming EM equity. The MSCI EM (USD) index was down 4.7% during the month. Rising geopolitical tensions between US and Iran were overshadowed by positive news on US-China trade talks with the signing of Phase One trade deal though it is likely to be more of a […]

• The New government presented the Union Budget in the firstweek of July.The  important takeaways were that the government targets to maintain the fiscal deficit for FY 20 at 3.3%,which was quite expected. In key items of interest to capital markets,(a) SEBI is to examine a proposal to increase the minimum public shareholding of companies […]