Policy reforms from Govt will help sustain equity markets rally

01 Oct 2012 Evaluate

Stock markets require more policy drive from government to maintain positive movement. Government can, with the introduction of policy reforms, help stock markets extend gains in the shortened trading week ahead. Investor’s response has improved considerably however to uphold the recent improvement of market the government will have to introduce another set of reforms.

Almost 8% rise in September was driven by a sprint of FII inflows after the government's policy drive and now investors are looking for more such pro-business measures, including raise in FDI limit in the insurance sector, to keep the interest in stocks going. Investors will closely watch the wordings in the final report of the Parthasarathi Shome-led panel, constituted to look into the controversial General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) and display tax proposal that will be submitted to the Finance Minister on Monday. On September 1, the panel had suggested GAAR, which was introduced by then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in his budget in March.

The uncertainty on some of its provisions upset FII and quite a few of them exposed to pull out of India as some of the proposals gave the nation's tax authorities power to analyze deals structured to mitigate taxes. It has forced PM, Manmohan Singh to set up the committee headed by Shome for an inspection into the rules. The government's decisions to hike diesel prices and open up retail sectors to foreign direct investment (FDI) resulted in foreign institutional investors (FIIs) pumping about Rs 19,000 crore in September. The net bought shares worth Rs 82,331 crore in 2012 till date.

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