Five reasons India's stock market is sinking even when its economy is growing

[Yasser76]

Five reasons India's stock market is sinking even when its economy is growing

Nifty: Five reasons India's markets are sinking even when its economy is growing

The world's fastest growing major economy has one of the worst performing major equity markets in 2026.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Master Chief]

1 main reason - Much harder to fake the fundamentals of a publicly listed business venture than it is to fake national GDP.

 

[Mighty_Dragon_Strike]

Stock market returns are not indicative of the ground realities faced by the economy.


more than economy, India has (to the best of my knowledge) more than 600 billion dollars in reserves?!!


that to me, is a proof, Indian economy is doing just enough to be better than ours and thats the bottom line for us, as a Pakistani..!

 

[Vikramaditya1]

1 main reason - Much harder to fake the fundamentals of a publicly listed business venture than it is to fake national GDP.

That's a stupid argument. Stock markets are responding to supply chain disruption due to middle East conflict, bond crisis making dollar more attractive forcing foreign investors to sell and move their assets to dollars and poor corporate earnings with overvaluation of stocks.

GDP don't always reflect the stock market.

 

[Master Chief]

bond crisis making dollar more attractive forcing foreign investors to sell and move their

Why is anyone "forced" to sell their nifty stocks? Bond markets are more attractive than Infian stocks for a reason. Nobody forces anyone to sell stocks and buy US bonds.

 

[Master Chief]

That's a stupid argument.

Sadly, this is not proof of the absence of manipulation of Indian GDP data.