With corporate asset quality cycle behind and Covid-19 impact fairly contained, analysts at Nomura think front-line banks will see faster-than-expected return on equity (ROE) recovery in 2021
Like Nomura's regular sales force, financial advisers sell stocks and bonds to retail investors, but their pay is weighted more towards commission
Retail inflation is unlikely to come down enough for the Reserve Bank to make rate cuts in the whole of 2021, says Nomura
Nomura has turned positive on India's cyclical outlook for 2021, and believes the country is on the cusp of a cyclical recovery
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With inflation above 7% in Oct for a second straight month, well above RBI's medium term target of 4%, views that India is near the end of the current rate cutting cycle have become more pronounced
Nomura expects the rupee to bounce back to 72 per dollar by end-March, a level last seen in February
While overall FII sentiment has been positive, thanks to the low interest rate regime, analysts say India has managed to bag more than its fair share of overseas flows du to record capital raising
Despite the large economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the markets have recovered sharply even though the performance among individual stocks has been quite polarised
Good momentum in US and domestic sales, along with Covid-19 treatment portfolio is already driving analysts to upgrade earnings estimates
Analysts expect companies to shift focus to online platform in order to boost sales in these Covid-19 impacted times
An internal investigation found that data on 275 companies, mainly financial institutions, was leaked to Nippon Institutional Securities Co., Nomura said Thursday in a statement
Attributes it to Covid-19 cases and lack of stimulus from govt
According to Nomura, unconventional monetary policies will be the new normal, reducing the urgency for fiscal austerity
While collectively, emerging market economies have entered their deepest recession in at least 60 years, Asia - particularly China and Northeast Asia - stand out as the best, Nomura says
The common thread that runs through these estimates is the fact that the economy is headed towards a recessionary phase
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The crisis has only deepened concerns about the viability of Nomura's business model, which is more reliant on retail broking than rivals
The flattening of the 'Covid-19 infection curve', Covid-19 impact on corporate earnings and the economic policies, they say, hold key to the market trajectory.
In comparative terms, India has been a laggard among Emerging Markets in 2020. The downgrade just makes the task of its economic recovery a little more daunting