CNBC's Inside India newsletter: Is China's stock market rally behind Indian equity losses?

The concern satellite has rapidly swapped its insignia implicit the past mates of weeks. But that's justifiable erstwhile one's allegiance is wholly geared toward concern returns.

China appears to person go the preferred concern destination for marketplace participants aft Beijing unveiled its astir aggressive monetary stimulus package since the coronavirus pandemic, coupled with enactment for its flailing property market.

China's CSI 300 index has gained astir 25% since the stimulus measures were announced. Meanwhile, India's Nifty 50 has fallen by much than 3.5%. Seven of the past 10 trading days person been losers for Indian equities, portion China stocks person risen each time but one, according to CNBC's count.

The causal nexus betwixt the 2 equity markets implicit the past 2 weeks raises the question of whether stellar returns successful India person travel astatine the outgo of falling Chinese plus prices implicit the past 4 years. More importantly, could this reverse successful the adjacent future?

In the abbreviated term, determination appears to beryllium immoderate grounds linking China's summation to India's losses. Citi strategists cautiously observe that "when determination were important outflows from China, we person seen a akin prime up successful inflows to India".

"While money flows are fungible and it's hard to property the absorption of flows, we would not beryllium amazed if investors statesman taking nett from overweight India positions to money closing China underweight positions," said Chris Ma, caput of Asia quantitative probe astatine Citi.

In addition, Berstein's Rupal Agarwal downgraded India to "Underweight" portion maintaining the concern bank's "Overweight" stance connected China, saying, "On India, we person been neutral, but present we find the marketplace to beryllium rather susceptible successful the near-term driven by grounds precocious comparative valuations to China and EM (already showing signs of peak)".

Could determination beryllium further symptom for Indian equity investors if much of the rumored stimulus measures are confirmed? That would beryllium connected whether the measures announced volition apt people China's banal marketplace oregon the existent economy.

Although stimulus measures person boosted banal prices truthful far, JPMorgan's equity strategist David Aserkoff pointed to his investors that the rally whitethorn person its Wile E. Coyote moment if the underlying economical situation remains challenging.

"The occupation for [Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa] equities is if these new/improved swap facilities conscionable boost Chinese banal purchases and if the economical stimulus does not boost Chinese economical growth, past wherever is the upside for CEEMEA banal markets? We bash not spot it," Aserkoff said the time aft the stimulus measures were announced.

Similarly, Morgan Stanley's strategists suggest that the MSCI China scale is expected to beryllium "range-bound" successful the 2nd fractional if nary further argumentation measures are announced.

Even if China's system improves and its banal marketplace soars, experts suggest it's improbable to wounded the Indian equity market's maturation outlook implicit the agelong term.

For now, a beardown and rapidly increasing economy, arsenic good arsenic a "resilient" home capitalist base, proceed to beryllium important drivers of Indian banal markets, according to Wall Street's observers.

"The Indian marketplace has galore affirmative home drivers which underpin our overweight recommendation," Morgan Stanley's Jonathan Garner said successful a enactment to clients this week. "These see sustained precocious existent and nominal GDP maturation and net maturation and the champion demographic underpinning for equities request successful our coverage."

Citi strategists besides echoed a akin view, adding, "We stay constructive and would bargain immoderate dips."

— CNBC's Michael Bloom contributed reporting.

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Indian stocks person been level this week, a large betterment connected past week's 4.5% loss. The Nifty 50 scale closed conscionable nether 25,000 points, and it has risen 15% this year.

The benchmark 10-year Indian authorities enslaved output has fallen to 6.76% aft rising by much than 20 ground points implicit the past week.

On CNBC TV this week, Young Liu, president of Hon Hai Technology Group (also known arsenic Foxconn), said Foxconn's accumulation successful India has the imaginable to turn sharply implicit the coming years. Even though India's proviso concatenation is inactive being built, "they volition yet person their ain proviso chain," Liu said, "just similar China." The existent medication is precise pro-business and pro-industry, added Liu.

Meanwhile, the India marketplace is "purely a cardinal story," said James Thom, elder concern manager astatine Abrdn. That is successful opposition to the Chinese market, which is driven much by sentiment than fundamentals, helium said. "We've seen robust economical maturation that is filtering done net growth," Thom told CNBC. While the valuations of Indian stocks are high, Thom does not deliberation there'll beryllium a worldly de-rating due to the fact that "trajectory, fundamentally, is precise sound."

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October 11: U.S. shaper terms scale for September, U.K. GDP, net for JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo

October 14: India user terms scale for September

October 15: Garuda Construction and Engineering IPO, net for Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup

October 16: U.K. user terms index, net for Morgan Stanley