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Stocks gain despite some economic headwinds

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India’s stock markets ended last week with gains as benchmark indices – Sensex and Nifty – gained over 1%. This was mainly because India has been vaccinating its population at an extremely fast pace – with over 8 million doses being administered daily.

Gains were mostly coming in from metal, financial and IT stocks. Even though the markets ended in green, investors became nervous that the US would raise interest rates as early as the end of 2022. The US raising rates would mean investors would take money out of India and put it back in the US as returns over there would rise. Another concern was that India’s growth forecasts were cut to 9.6% from 13.9% by a global credit rating company.

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Markets Update

Nifty 50

15,860.35

1.13% ▲

Sensex

52,925.04

1.11% ▲

Nifty 500

13,539.40

1.14% ▲

Bank Nifty

35,364.65

2.33% ▲

The Big Picture

Foreign Exchange Reserves in India decreased to $603.93 billion on June 18 from $608.08 billion in the previous week.

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In what will reinforce India’s green energy credentials, the union government is working on a ‘green tariff’ policy that will help electricity distribution companies (discoms) supply electricity generated from clean energy projects at a cheaper rate as compared to power from conventional fuel sources such as coal.

India has the largest renewable energy expansion plan in the world.
The green tariff policy is a step in that direction.

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