Check with seller The World This Week – 28th August 2020 to 4th September 2020 Mumbai

Indian Equity Summary

• A sharp increase in the Covid-19 cases, weak macroeconomic results, India / China border tension casted its shadow on the domestic equity market with the Sensex / Nifty benchmark closing by ~3% in red on a wow basis, as the two-week positive trend in Indian equities came to halt.
• On the macro front , the manufacturing sector is also pointing towards a turnaround as the IHS Markit India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) rises to 52.0 in August from 46.0 in July, while other leading indicators, such as automotive sales, have seen a year-onyear growth, driven by increased demand due to unlocking and to some degree, due to the low base effect.
• Going forward, global factors like development on the US -China relationship front , India & China border issues and domestic factors like the monsoon trajectory and remaining earnings season ; will continue to dictate the trend of the domestic equity market. We expect the trading range for Nifty between 10900-11,400 in the near term.

Indian Debt Market

• Post the OMO announcement by the RBI , the Government bond prices rose the yield of the new 10-year benchmark 5.77% 2030 paper settled at 5.93% on September 4, compared with 6.14% on August 28.
• RBI conducted special OMO (Operation Twist) of Rs 171 billion on 3rd September out of Rs 200 billion notified amount.
• The average 10 years SDL cut-off yield stood at 6.46% as compared to 6.65% during last week
• We expect the 10 year benchmark yield to trade between 5.80-6.05% in near term.

Domestic News

• India surpassed Brazil to become the second worst-hit in the world by the pandemic with a new record daily rise of 90.8 thousand cases to 4.2 million, while Brazil recorded more 14.5 infections to 4.1 million.
• India's GDP contracted 23.9% in the April-June quarter of 2020, compared with an expansion of 3.1% in the previous quarter, and a 5.2% growth in the year-ago quarter
• India's service sector activity level was at the highest in four months in August. The IHS Markit services Purchasing Managers' Index rose to 41.8 in August from 34.2 in July. The reading was the highest since March, before the escalation of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

International News

• The Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reiterated on Friday its pledge to maintain interest rates lower for years to support recovery from the coronavirus crisis and recession.
• The yield on the US 10-year Treasury note climbed 9.9bps to 0.720% on Friday, the biggest daily gain since May 18th, after the jobs report for August showed the unemployment rate fell to 8.4 percent from 10.2 percent in July and below market consensus of 9.8 percent.
• The People's Bank of China (PBoC) continued its money injections and announced a net of CNY 100 billion seven-day reverse repos auction at the unchanged rate of 2.2 percent on September 4th 2020. The central bank said the move aims to maintain reasonable and sufficient liquidity. A total of CNY 100 billion of reverse repos matured on September 4th.

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