Happy Thursdays! The India June Reports on inflation and expectations

with the Friday tray of goodies gone..diesel and LPG are upgraded to almost profitable for OMCs. India inc is on a roll waiting for the fuel inflation to build up in the July treports. Stock market volumes across India, US, China and elsewhere have been down by 10-30% ( in the US NYSE now trades 17 bln shares a day) . However, the commodity prices going down have helped the cause of investors vis a vis inflation hawks and the market is showing a lot of skin and a fresh round of global FII recommendations for the next half of the year in India

Last year around the same time, we had taken up increases in the price of petrol and the cascading effect on inflation was pretty tough scare for India Inc. This time Diesel is even more directly linked to input prices thru freight but everyone would be happy if the RBI kept raising rates allowing a sneak vision of even a 20000 target for Sensex. But I would not be fooled with food inflation still 7.7%, fuels still 13% (before the impact of 5-10% hikes on Friday) and inflation still 9% for India Inc (week ended June 18, 2011)

Also, it was great listening to Wilbur Ross on the differences between European and American Banks , the critical being that Our credit deposit ratios never exceed 75-80% unlike Europeans which thrive on 120-160% Credit Deposit ratios but Cost Income ratios are intact at less than 60% ( Of course that does not include global survivors like HSBC and StanC)