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SumanSpeaks Independent Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence Macro & Statistics · GDP Data Debate 7.8% Growth, Or A 7.8% Illusion? Inside India's GDP Data Wars A former Finance Secretary says the real number is 2.6%. The government says 7.8%. Both, on closer inspection, are telling only part of the story — and the part they're both skipping is where the real questions live: the deflator, the jobs data, and a GDP series that still can't properly see India's unorganised economy. 1 The Number That Started The Fight In February 2026, India moved its GDP base year from 2011-12 to 2022-23. This was the first such shift in over a decade, and it came with new data sources, a more detailed price index, and a shift to double deflation across sectors. When Q1FY27 GDP data came out showing 7.8% growth, former Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg objecte...
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SumanSpeaks Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence  Dilution Math · Corporate Action SEPC's ₹6,000-Crore Capital Ceiling: The Numbers Behind The Silence A stock at ₹5.38. A share issue priced at ₹10. A ₹1,530-crore acquisition larger than the company's own market cap. The market moved almost nothing. The arithmetic says it should have. On 6 August 2026, SEPC Limited's shareholders approved something that sounds like housekeeping: a jump in authorised share capital from ₹2,250 crore to ₹6,000 crore. The stock did not celebrate. It barely moved. And that silence is the real story — because underneath the filing sits a ₹1,530-crore Middle East acquisition, a second UAE deal, and a dilution number large enough to change who owns this company. World's Greatest Books for Personal Growth & Wealth — 4-Book Boxset (Think & Grow Rich, How To Win Friends & Influence People & more) Ad 1 The Ceiling ...
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SumanSpeaks Independent Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence · Estd 2006 US Markets · Macro Intelligence Profits Vs Cost of Capital: Can Earnings Outrun Rising Yields? The 10-year Treasury yield is sitting near 4.7% as of August 2026, up from roughly 4.1% a year earlier. Wall Street's cost of capital just got expensive again — and not every company on your watchlist can outrun it. Corporate earnings season keeps producing the same headline, quarter after quarter. Record profits. Beat-and-raise guidance. Confident conference calls. Underneath the applause, something colder is happening. The cost of capital is climbing, and it is quietly rewriting which companies deserve the valuations the market has given them. This is not a doom story. It is a filter. Some businesses will clear the new bar with room to spare. Others have been coasting on cheap debt and generous multiples for years, and that runway is running out. Potent Multivitami...
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SumanSpeaks Independent Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence Markets · Geopolitics · Macro Risk Oil, Iran, and the Rupee What a Fresh Middle East Escalation Means for Indian Markets Brent near $95 a barrel arrived in the same week India was still defending its GDP number. The oil shock is not a side story to that debate. It is the next chapter of it. Fresh US strikes on Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz, in retaliation for tanker attacks and an earlier assault on a US base, sent Brent crude up nearly 5% on September 1 to close to $95 a barrel, its highest level since late July. It held near $94.9 into September 2. Indian equities did what they usually do when crude spikes on a fresh geopolitical shock. The Sensex fell for a third straight session, down 373.93 points (0.49%) to 76,570.35. The Nifty50 slipped 141.35 points (0.59%) to 23,914.45, as rising bond yields compounded the oil-driven inflation worry. That is the tape. The more importan...

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