The World This Week Dec 12 – Dec 16, 2011

Equity View: A sharp correction of 4.5% was witnessed in Indian Equity markets. IIP number for month of October came in at -5.1%, worst IIP number in last couple of years. WPI came in at 9.11% for the month of November, which is slightly above consensus expectation. Inflation has stayed above 9% for more than 12 months now. On Friday, RBI came up with its mid quarter review policy, wherein it mentioned that the rate hikes is over and going forward reversal of interest rate cycle can be witnessed. We expect the January inflation number to be around 8% on back of significant decline in the food inflation number. Food Inflation number has softened and cooled off from around 10% to 4.35% last week. Also some cooling off in commodities prices has been witnessed in last week on back of significant movement in the dollar index. Hence some cooling can be witnessed in the inflation number. Historically, it has been seen that equity markets have bottomed out around the peaking of the interest rate tightening cycle. We expect the reversal of interest rate cycle will happen in near future. We expect RBI to have policy action in form of CRR or Repo Rate action on 24

th January 2012 when RBI will meet for its policy review.

In US, macro-economic data continues to remain positive with retails sales, job data & consumer index all remaining positive. There are no signs of any recession for next 2 quarters. 3

rd quarter GDP number is expected to come during this

week followed by corporate earnings which will come on 10th

January 2011. Real Estate View: Residential prices have been at the same levels now for long time & no price correction is been witnessed in the residential space. Similar to restructuring that we are witnessing in debt which would continue till month of March, we would witness a same kind of restructuring in real estate sector till March. Hence we expect prices not to correct till March. On commercial space it is good time to buy. Anything between Rs. 3000-5000 per sq. ft. is considered as good purchase. News: DOMESTIC MACRO:

India's food inflation eased to 4.35% in the year to December 3, from an annual 6.60% rise in the previous week. Its lowest reading since late February 2008

The Reserve Bank of India sent a strong signal on Friday that its next move is likely to be an easing of monetary policy as risks to economic growth increase, but left its policy rate on hold at a three-year high as it acknowledged high inflation.

GLOBAL MACRO

Euro:

Fitch Ratings, the third-biggest of the major credit rating agencies, on Thursday downgraded Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and five other large banks based in Europe and the United States, citing "increased challenges" in the financial markets.

Markit's Eurozone Composite Purchasing Managers' Index, which measures the activity of thousands of euro zone companies, rose for a second month in December to 47.9 from 47.0 in November.

Greek Unemployment jumped to 17.7% the third quarter from 16.3% in the previous three-month period

US:

By a vote of 67-32, the Senate approved the legislation that passed a $915 billion bill to fund most federal agency activities through next September and avert a government shutdown.

The fate of legislation in the U.S. Congress to extend a payroll tax cut for two months was uncertain on Saturday as the measure appeared to face strong opposition in the House of Representatives

China:

China's economic growth could be slowing further as data on Thursday showed the first year-on-year drop in foreign direct investment in 28 months and a fresh fall in new orders signaled a further contraction in factory activity.

Swapnil Pawar Varun Goel Jharna Agarwal Palak Nanjani Neha Arora Kanika Khorana

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