Adrian Mowat, Chief Asian & Emerging Equity Strategist, JPMorgan said that fall in global crude prices is positive for EMs like India, Indonesia and Thailand. But, a further reduction in prices is unlikely.
After an initial decline, equity markets rebounded, suggesting investors view the Fed's action as confirmation of improving economic fundamentals.
In addition to major central bank meetings, Japan released its closely-watched Tankan business survey on Monday and HSBC released its flash purchasing managers' index (PMI). The HSBC flash PMI slipped to a three-month low in December of 50.5.
Christopher Palmer, director of Global Emerging Markets, Henderson Global Investors believes the US Senate's decision on the debt ceiling led to profit taking and a bit of disappointment in the equities market.
Wall Street is bracing for a wave of economic reports next week, including the August jobs report, which might prove decisive in determining whether the economy is strong enough for the Federal Reserve to dial back its bond purchases in mid-September.
Speaking to CNBC-TV18, UR Bhat, managing director, Dalton Capital Advisors says emerging markets (EMs) have been huge beneficiaries of the US Federal Reserve's Quantitative Easing (QE) seen for the last several quarters.
In an interview to CNBC-TV18, Kishore Narne of Motilal Oswal says that until and unless there is any reversal in the rupee/dollar relationship, prices of the yellow metal are unlikely to fall.
The dollar crumbled to seven-week lows on Thursday after the yen ploughed through major resistance levels in a stop-loss frenzy.
Retail investors took profits in July on fears about the Federal Reserve's exit plan from its monster monetary stimulus, with the group showing the lowest sentiment reading since January, according to data culled from the largest pool of retail traders by TD Ameritrade.
According to data provided by Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), FIIs bought Rs 7681 crore worth equities while DIIs or MFs ended the quarter in the negative range, selling Rs 6623 crore worth investments.
Emerging markets are the worst affected due to the probable tapering of QE3. The Indian market is one of the most affected emerging markets as the large current account deficit threatens to worsen the problem.
FIIs sold equities worth Rs 2136 crore on Thursday on the back of Fed chairma Ben Bernanke's speech on tapering of the quantitative easing by the end of next year.
Siddharth Bhamre of Angel Broking suggests holding long positions as he expects the May series to expire above 6,100.
Mark Priest, ETX Capital feels the market is looking for an indication of when the quantitative easing for the third (QE3) round is likely to taper off and the decision by Fed Reserve will play a key role.
Shane Oliver of AMP Capital Investors thinks that US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is unlikely to upset the financial markets as that will undo a lot of good work done by him over the last year in terms of trying to push those markets higher as aid to the US economy
Federal Reserve could continue bond-buying program through the summer, but may end abruptly in the autumn, if by then, it is confident that the improvement in the jobs outlook is here to stay
The beginning of the end of the Federal Reserve's massive bond-buying program might come sooner than many investors think if recent gains in the US labor market do not prove fleeting.
Federal Reserve's massive asset purchases have so far not disrupted markets as some have feared and the bonds remain readily available, according to the US central bank official responsible for running the quantitative easing program.
European markets have been through a rough patch of late and Geoffrey Dennis, MD of Citi believes it is likely to stay in recession till 2014 with negative growth. He also expects more monetary stimulus from the European Central Bank (ECB) including further interest rate cuts.
Market reaction to the Federal Reserve possibly unwinding its history-making intervention policies has been more pronounced for stocks than bonds, and with good reason.
Mark Matthews, head of Asia Research, Julius Baer told CNBC-TV18 that the environment remains bullish for risk assets.
In an interview to CNBC-TV18 Henry Mcvey, managing director, KKR shared his reading and outlook on the US markets. He says, with the extension of quantitative easing three (QE3), Fed is basically is trying to create a buffer to prevent deflation and also prepare the markets for risk taking in 2013.
David Lennox of Fat Prophets explains to CNBC-TV18 that gold will be one of the beneficiaries of the Obama's win as the various measures that will be taken to address the looming fiscal cliff including the continuance of the QE3 programme, will keep the dollar weak and add strength to gold.
Since the Spanish denial for bailout has taken so long, Richard Gibbs, Global Head at Macquarie Securities believes that when the bailout package is finally out, it will not have the positive impact on markets that one is hoping for.
Gold inched up on Tuesday, off a one-month low hit in the previous session, but upbeat US retail sales data appeared to undermine the necessity for stimulus measures and dented gold's appeal as a hedge against monetary easing.