Ok yesterday H1B reform bill was placed to increase minimum wage to $60K to $130K
All IT stocks down 3 to 5percent.
if the bill goes through, which it will smoothly as republicans have majority in both the house there could be major downturn or swing short in IT.
But there is one counter point that the IT companies will simply pass the cost to Client (American Cos) Question is will the American co accept such increase without any hitch?
or other option is 2/3rd of the H1B workforce will be sent back.
or may be bit of both.
Either way negative for IT sector for next 1 year or so
EDIT: but in the long run the IT companies will slowly pass the entire cost along with their margin to American cos and enabling them to make much more money than what they make currently.
Will be interesting to watch how this goes down.