Ruanakji do you when are the IIP numbers coming out. I think we will have very bad quarters on a few tech companies and also the IIP numbers according to me have peaked out last month. I think we will see a fall in numbers and that would trigger the decline. I was reading a chart comparison of IIP numbers from 2005-2010 and the graph showed last month was the best ever and I doubt we will repeat it that according to me was a black swan event that growth in IIP was so high month on month even though previous month was around 13%.
Year or Year I am not so sure that can still be great as we were in recovery mode but soon that will change YoY will start looking bad too.
Nimish, to be very honest, I don't emphasize too much on any economic data. Stock markets are ahead by 6-8 months in terms of discounting the economic feel. If this is true (which I feel is) then markets have already discounted what is coming out today or tomorrow. The numbers good or bad can give a knee jerk reaction and hence markets may react, but for me that is as equivalent to the daily noise we see in the markets. I lack the skills to profit from such things, and hence I don't track this.
Even if the IIP numbers are down, I will consider it as a mere retracement of the strong numbers posted earlier. This is similar to what price does. Hence it will not bother me. In 2008 - early 2009, every set of data was extremely bad, still the markets begun rallying. This was because markets were discounting 6-8 months of forward looking economy. Now that we are in that period, look at the previous month IIP numbers, they were so good. This is what was being discounted 8 months back. Hope you get my point.
Tc