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Key Highlights
- Value Has Underperformed Growth For A Decade
- Expect U.S. 10-Year Bond Yields To Shed Another 10 Bps
- Commodities Coming Out Of 12 Year Bear Market
The price of crude oil has surged over 45 percent since the start of the current calendar year. WTI trades at over 2-year-high. From the metals space, copper has surged almost 30 percent during the same time to trade at all-time high levels.
Commodities are coming out of a 12-year bear market and there is plenty more to come in the supercycle, said Atul Suri, Marathon Trends – PMS. He also believes it’s never too late to get into commodities and that a multi-year cycle is underway.
Among the world markets that hit an all-time high in June 2021 are S&P 500, DAX, ASX 200, and Nifty Index. Easy liquidity provided by the Federal Reserve is triggering the rally in equities, he said. The rally in equities is likely to continue till liquidity tightening begins.
Suri expects the US 10-year yield to shed another 10-bps and that would aid the risk on a rally in emerging markets.
Talking about the rally in the broader market stocks, he cautioned despite a lot of money being made in the small-cap stocks and reminded that it could be a double-edged sword.
Here’s his take on various sectors/themes going forward
- Digitisation to power the upsurge in the IT sector
- Don’t think FMCG will fall out of favour, FMCG a secular story
- Healthcare spending to increase drastically post-COVID
- Allocation moving little bit from private to PSUs visible
- Consensus bullishness that banks & financials will do well
- Underweight on financials & banks
- Mismatch between perception on banks, financials & the reality
- Overweight on specialty chemicals, sector similar to IT in 2000
- Plenty of niche plays available in home development as a theme
- Wise to choose market leaders in home improvement space
- Divestment to be a game changer for PSUs going forward
- Consistent earnings crucial for PSUs to attract investments
- Cement has been rock-solid, has not been challenged by volatility
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