The Nifty50 slipped below its 100-days exponential moving average (DEMA) placed at 10,400. A fall below 10,200 could stretch the decline towards 10,000 levels which is closer to its 200-DEMA.
During market correction such as this, it is the lower PE stocks will work better, relatively. In other words, they would fall less as compared to other High PE stocks.
Mookim feels there is little room for further upside, while market is susceptible to reversal of the global tide.
The market is expensive and the breadth of re-rating is extraordinary, Sanjay Mookim of Bank of America Merrill Lynch said.
The euphoria is hard to miss but there's another factor that investors should not ignore - hope.
“In the near term, the ride through the earnings season will be very bumpy. Even in the March quarter, I expect some heartburn. I need companies to start delivering on growth again and is one area in which there is room for error in March quarter,” Sanjay Mookim, Director, India Equity Strategy at BofA ML told CNBC-TV18.
Coupled with the residual impact of demonetisation, Sensex consensus earnings are likely to be cut by 6-8 percent over FY18-19, Sanjay Mookim says.
All eyes will be on the Governor Urjit Patel's commentary on the inflation target and how he approaches the ultimate cpi goal of 4 percent.
It has been a buoyant start to the year for Indian equities. Strong domestic flows, absence of any major negative surprises in the Budget and a general lack of alternative investment options have overshadowed the worry of demonetisation delaying earnings recovery.
Apart from strong domestic fund flows, lack of alternative investments is driving the market higher according to Sanjay Mookim, Director, India Equity Strategy at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Despite near-term GST disruption, Sanjay Mookim of Bank of America Merrill Lynch expects the Sensex to deliver robust profit growth and to achieve a 9 percent total return from here on.
Within sectors, banks should dominate earnings growth, we stay with the well capitalised ones, says Sanjay Mookim of BofAML.
Speaking to CNBC-TV18, Sanjay Mookim, Director – India Equity Strategy at Bank of America Merrill Lynch said that FY19 will see banks delivering reasonable growth.
Sanjay Mookim of Bank of America Merrill Lynch says the conservative portfolio now would look to add utilities, telecom and oil marketing companies. A more balanced outlook would be to add also to pharma and quality banks.
The government's to ban on Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency will have a negative impact on consumption in the country, says Sanjay Mookim, Director, India Equity strategy, Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Abhay Laijawala of Deutsche Bank says with record Kharif output likely to give significant boost to rural consumption sentiment and other factors such as 7th Central Pay Commission also supporting aggregate demand in the economy, it will likely result in consensus upgrades to earnings of consumer and rural interfacing sectors and stocks.
Sanjay Mookim of Bank of America Merrill Lynch says he thinks implementation challenges will now gain prominence and Q4FY17 can be particularly volatile.
Brokers say bears are wary of going short on the market as more liquidity measures—known in market parlance as helicopter money—could push stock prices higher
Sanjay Mookim of Bank of America Merrill Lynch recommends investors to stick with in liquid large cap names, particularly those companies where risks of operational surprises are lower
We like Bharti Infratel for expected mobile data usage growth. Two large cap underperform names with high daily liquidity are BHEL and GAIL, says Sanjay Mookim of BofA ML.