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                                                                              OUTLOOK

WAY                                Within the infrastructure                  The 4% correction in Nifty
                                   space, India’s road transport              in the calendar year 2015
AHEAD and highways ministry has                                               brings it at attractive levels
                                              lined up projects worth Rs 500  for longer term investment
                                              billion to be awarded under     coupled with stronger
2016                               public-private partnership                 fundamentals amidst weak
                                   mode in FY17.This will be the              global economies.
                                   largest chunk of highways
                                   projects to be awarded by                  Technical Outlook: January
Strong macro-                      the ministry under the PPP
                                   mode in a single financial                 The current price action on the monthly
economic                           year. Furthermore, with                    chart has formed a candlestick pattern
                                                                              that resembles a high wave ‘’Doji‘’ pattern
fundamentals                       considerable improvement                   where prices have closed near the high
and large                          in fuel availability in India,             range of the candle. This suggests that the
                                   the power supply position, as              down move is losing breath.
                                   well as power prices, eased                In coming month if Nifty trades and close
order book                         considerably during 2015.                  above 8029 level then it is likely to test
                                                                              8154 – 8279 - 8425 levels. However, if Nifty
                                   Global forecasts from Japan                trades and closes below 7863 level then it
                                   to Europe expect La Nina- a                can test 7738 – 7613 - 7468 levels.
On the macro- economic front,      phenomenon associated with
India’s current account deficit    stronger monsoons across                   Broadly, the monthly trend is
narrowed to 1.6% of GDP at         Asia- to hold sway in 2016.                down. However, only a monthly
$8.2 bln in Q2, FY16, mainly       That could be good news for                close below 7600 level would
due to lower trade deficit.        India, which is suffering from             resume the downtrend. Hence
However, India’s balance           two consecutive drought                    7600 level is a make or break level.
of payments (BoP) turned           years.
negative during Q2, FY16 after     Global sovereign, pension                                     5 ARIHANT CAPITAL ¡ JANUARY 2016
a gap of seven quarters. The       funds will be permitted to
country witnessed $0.86 bln        invest in NIIF, making India
depletion of reserve assets, as    very attractive destination for
per the data released by the       longer term investment. The
RBI. This was due to the FII       4% correction in Nifty in the
outflow of $6.5 bln during Q2,     calendar year 2015 brings it
FY16.                              at attractive levels for longer
Nevertheless, the Financial        term investment coupled with
Stability report released by the   stronger fundamentals amidst
RBI pointed to relative stability  weak global economies. We
in India’s financial system        suggest investors to invest in
supported by its relatively        fundamentally good stocks
strong macroeconomic               at low levels for long-term
fundamentals. Loans &              perspective.
deposits grew by 11% (y-o-y).
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