‘Free the rupee. Let it go’—How to save the market from investors
About this episode
The episode discusses the dynamics of the Indian market amidst foreign investor exits and the role of domestic savers.
Everything around the Indian economy looks shaky, i.e., a months-long conflict, a sliding rupee, and a government telling people to stop buying gold. Except for one important caveat: India’s market continues to hold on. The Sensex and Nifty have barely moved. The reason why that seems to be happening is pretty simple — every month, Indian households pour ₹31,000 crore into equity through SIP (Systematic Investment Plans), and that steady flow is exactly the liquidity foreign investors are using to sell down and leave without crashing anything. So the rupee slides, the RBI burns reserves to slow the fall, and the saver gets squeezed from both ends. Eventually, they are told to stay in the market and to stop buying gold. Essentially, the Indian saver is not just holding the market up - they may be funding the exit. Praveen puts that thesis to two of the sharpest minds in Indian markets, and they spend the next ninety minutes taking it apart. Anupam Manur argues that foreigners are leaving for real, structural reasons and puts forward a “triple loss” argument, which says that propping up an overvalued market is the way because the Indian saver has nowhere else to go. Deepak Shenoy…
People in this episode
Host: Praveen
Guests: Anupam Manur, Deepak Shenoy
Topics covered
- Indian economy
- market stability
- foreign investment
- SIP
- rupee depreciation
- equity investment
Keywords
- rupee
- SIP
- Sensex
- Nifty
- foreign investors
- Indian market
- equity
- gold buying
- liquidity
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: RBI
Places: India, Indian economy
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