Why is VIX still up more than 50%,Yen up 5% against Dollar While US markets have recovered after falling 8%
May 7, 2010The rise of the Chinese and the fall of the Japanese in the Solar Rankings
May 7, 2010India has very low exposure to the current European debt crisis. The reasons for that are:
- India’s export to GDP ratio is much lower than that of other Asian countries,so a slowdown in world trade due to European slowdown has little affect
- India’s financial sector has almost no linkages to the sovereign debt of the affected Club Med countries
- India has very few companies that are dependent on exports to Europe,can’t think of a single large cap
That said I don’t think India can remain unaffected or decoupled from the other world markets. The reasons are that capital is globalized and I don’t think India’s relative valuation can remain too much greater than the other world markets. Also foreign capital inflows will slow if not reverse as investors choose to invest in safe haven assets.