NEW DELHI: Indian economy is in a dire state and that’s a situation that has been confirmed by the country’s central bank. Job losses have become the new normal and even with the economy opening up, India has already lost close to three months of the GDP and that gap is hard to recover.

So, where does that leave the stock markets and how can this crisis alter their shape?

PMS fund manager Basant Maheshwari says India’s service sector is retrenching and the MSMEs are plagued by the migration of labourers. He labels it as India’s worst economic crisis ever.


Kotak AMC’s MD Nilesh Shah shared a report about how even the FMCG sector too witnessed a sharp fall during the lockdown, highlighting the acuteness of the crisis.


Independent market expert Sandip Sabharwal says India is facing a stagflation. He adds that the RBI has done everything it could and now the situation is about solvency which is the government’s job.



Due to the current situation, some companies want the waiver from reporting Q1 results and iThought’s co-founder finds merit in that thought. Shyam Sekhar says, “Let companies set their house in order and revive normal business activity. All energies must be channelled there.”


Another fallout of this crisis is that the Indian markets will be a 10-20 stock market for returns and 30-40 for safety.

Value investor Soumya Malani in a thread shared his strategy on how to succeed in the stock market.