DIB Solutions Predict Further Rise For Asian Stocks

August 14, 2009 | Author: | Posted in Uncategorized

also upgraded their outlook on India’s equity market to “overweight” from “neutral” amid increased economic reforms political stability. Investors should own more shares than indicated by benchmark indexes in Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia and Thailand, with exporters among the best bets, they added. DIB Solution’s forecast represents an 82 percent advance in the measure for the full year, which would be its best annual gain on record.

In the email to clients and shareholders, DIB Solutions analysts wrote that their data indicates that economic activity in a number of countries is now approaching its peak and that the implications of this on the true GDP for Asian countries, excluding Japan, are predicted to be positive, largely on the basis of a spike in exports.

Indian stocks may benefit as low interest rates and inflation spur economic growth, DIB Solutions said. The Reserve Bank of India last week left borrowing costs unchanged at record lows, after slashing interest rates six times since October.

Inflation has slowed from a 16-year high of 12.91 percent in August last year as oil prices fell. India’s benchmark wholesale-price index fell for an eighth week, declining 1.58 percent in the week to July 25 from a year earlier, according to a recent quote from the Indian government spokesperson referenced in the DIB Solutions statement.

The DIB Solutions analysts explained that in their view, the credit crunch was over; low external interest rates combined with low levels for the Indian rupee should now result in accelerated capital inflows and growth.

Furthernore, DIB Solutions analysts added Tata Motors Ltd., the Indian truckmaker that owns Jaguar Land Rover, and Infrastructure Development Finance Co., a financier of roads, ports and utilities, to its list of recommended stocks in India.

Acer Inc., the world’s third-largest maker of personal computers, and Korean Air Lines Co. were also among companies that DIB Solutions added to its recommended portfolio, the report said.

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