Key Points
In less than two months, American investment bank Goldman Sachs has raised the 2024-end target for benchmark Nifty50 to 23,500 from 21,800 in the backdrop of an improved outlook for both growth and rate trajectory...
Over the past two months, the global macroeconomic environment has seen a favourable shift, with expectations of relatively firm growth in the US, earlier-than-anticipated cuts in interest rates both in the US and Asian continents, and an expected moderate depreciation in the dollar this year...
While markets have partly priced this, a better growth/rate mix recently led us to raise our Nifty index target, incorporating a higher target valuation multiple, the brokerage said.. Conducive Macro Factors..
However, a lower sensitivity to US rates/Fed cuts compared to other cyclical Asian markets, and a shallow rate-cutting cycle in India suggests a limited impact on the domestic equity market, the investment bank said...
While we expect valuations to moderate over the course of the year, as underlying earnings catch up, we believe the shifts in macro environment, notably sooner than expected Fed easing cycle and better global risk appetite warrants a higher target multiple versus our previous expectations, it said.. (You can now subscribe to our ETMarkets WhatsApp channel)..
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