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SumanSpeaks Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence  ▪  Estd 2006 VALUATION FRAMEWORKS  ▪  MARKET DYNAMICS Is the Indian Market Overvalued? Or Are You Looking at the Wrong Metrics? Why High-Multiple Stocks Keep Winning the India Growth Story Every few days, television studios and brokerage reports echo the same familiar refrain: "Indian markets are expensive." But reducing a company's worth to a single metric—the Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio—is one of the most common analytical mistakes in modern investing. The Indian equity market is not uniformly valued. It is a mosaic of businesses operating at vastly different stages of growth, capital intensity, and execution. While certain pockets undoubtedly command premium valuations, others continue to trade at modest multiples despite improving operational fundamentals. Trailing P/E measures where a business has been, not where it is heading...
Is the Government Indirectly saying, to enter the markets now??!!
MUMBAI: The finance ministry is nudging state-owned banks to cut lending rates before March-end, though most lenders had initially taken a stand to review interest rates only next financial year.
This has not been communicated in writing, but at a recent meeting, senior ministry officials asked bank chiefs to consider lowering interest rates.
Even after the Reserve Bank of India cut banks' cash reserve ratio (CRR) in January, signalling a reversal in its monetary policy stance, bankers had said it would take a while for lending rates to soften.
Since CRR is the slice of customer deposits that banks have to keep as cash with the RBI, a cut in the ratio following repeated rate hikes was perceived as the onset of a dovish monetary policy. But since no bank has lowered returns on deposits since the RBI action, their cost of fund continues to be high.

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