Raising concerns, credit rating agency, India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) in its latest report has said that headwinds to foreign portfolio investment (FPI) flows into India are likely to continue over the near-to-medium term despite the accommodative global monetary policy stance and the government's efforts to alleviate uncertainty regarding the higher surcharge.
The report highlighted that a gamut of factors such as slower-than-expected demand growth in major economies, geopolitical and trade tensions and a gradual weakening of the economic growth prospects in India have contributed to a build-up of risk aversion which has impeded the demand for emerging market (EM) debt instruments.
As per the report, the corporate spread over the benchmark has only widened, notwithstanding a series of rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of India and the softening of government security yields to a five-year low. It also said that as the banking system struggles to ensure transmission of the repo rate cuts amidst high deposit competition and low risk appetite, the demand for corporate debt instruments has remained lackluster in FY20.
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