Monday, September 22, 2014

OUR MARKETS MUST MATURE BEYOND ITS TEENS

 It reflects poorly on an economy with  strong on going fundamentals  that waits with trepidation  for a regime change  and within days thereafter, chases  every other stock to new  highs !.That swings will be wilder on  say an Israeli- Palestinian flare up or even a substantial  QE taper in the US is understandable but to be inexplicably swayed purely by endemic factors, must ride on reckless hope and perhaps greed. That said,  weak fault lines  continue to exist, be it in the narrow band of retail speculative stock transactions  or the  dated 30 component Sensex and in other sectoral shares as well.  Sensex  seems to be largely reduced to a day to day  ATM for retail  investors , which is fine except that swings then  tend to become hugely separated from the core value  of a stock . Indian stock markets still remain tied to its nascent days of  a command economy wherein speculation and short haul political developments  were content to feed on each other .The mindset  continues to operate and  small investors  keep getting  hurt.It is time that our stock indices get reworked and investors get wiser  to a regimen where  fundamentals start prevailing over raw speculation.

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