JP Morgan chief economist forecasts 'strong rebound' in Indian markets


By Nikhila Natarajan

New York, May 27 (IANS): Global investment bank JP Morgan is forecasting a "very strong rebound" in Indian markets for the second half of the year while it remains "worried" about what it describes as deterioration in the country's public finances, social disruption and the limits of public financing in the long slog back from the coronavirus crisis.

"India is going to be going through a very difficult first half of the year. We have GDP down in the second quarter, 35 per cent annualised pace but we have a very strong rebound in the second half of the year, but one that still doesn't get you back to where you were," Bruce Kasman, chief economist at JP Morgan told IANS.

Kasman leads a team of thirty economists worldwide who set the bank's economic and policy views.

Globally too, JP Morgan warned on Tuesday that whatever rebound happens in the second half of 2020 won't be strong enough to undo the damage absorbed during the first deadly blow from COVID19.

The economic wounds will be "deeper than anything we've seen since World War Two", Kasman said. "At the same time, it's going to be very short lived."

Kasman thinks the Reserve Bank of India is "almost done but not completely done" with the easing of its key interest rate.

"We have a bottom in the policy rate forecast, 3.75 (per cent) very close to where we are now, Kasman said.

India's central bank has cut its key interest rate to 4 per cent to counter the economic blow from the coronavirus pandemic.

Income and job losses are going to have a "lasting effect" on consumer behaviour, Kasman said.

Things are going to be much harder for the household sector compared with the corporate sector, according to JP Morgan's research.

"We don't think the multiplier and income supports are going to be all that great."

Echoing the street level view across much of American working class, Kasman said the temporary income cushions delivered by governments via direct money transfers won't take the bite off on the consumer side. "Job insecurity" is far too pervasive, Kasman said and JP Morgan has made it the centrepiece of its May 2020 report on the global outlook.

The US, Kasman said, gets hurt more in the initial downturn and typically comes back on track quicker. JP Morgan economists are bracing for another "ugly unemployment report" in the US, with the jobless rate closer to 20 per cent.

"Europe is providing its support through stimulus to the labor market by helping people stay in jobs. The US is allowing for the traditional flexibilities of the labour market to operate that's why you will have another very ugly employment report and probably an unemployment rate that goes up closer to 20 per cent."

Despite the grim backdrop, the JP Morgan view is that the US tends to have more "dynamism" in lifting out of recessions compared with Europe because corporates there are still holding "all those labor costs on the books".

"We have an output gap of a little over 3 per cent of the global economy at the end of next year. That's a huge amount of slack that's going to weigh on pricing and particularly in our mind in the services industries".

JP Morgan warns that central banks "cannot defend against the coming disinflationary wave".

  

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  • Sunil K, Mangalore

    Wed, May 27 2020

    J P Morgan trying to get into the good books of Modi. Wonder if JP Morgan itself will survive through the crisis?

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  • David Pais, Mangalore

    Wed, May 27 2020

    strong rebound means, india's economy is already destroyed after 2014. how will it rebound strongly. 1nly da fake developments & fake gdp will strongly rebound.

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  • Sanjeev Kamath, Udupi

    Wed, May 27 2020

    Modi has always been in the right direction. 21st century belongs to India.

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  • G R PRABHUJI, Mangalore

    Wed, May 27 2020

    Correct, 2 years back they old we will keep our first step on Moon in 2020.. But unfotunately everybody knows very well that where we have now kept our first step.

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  • Indian, Dubai

    Wed, May 27 2020

    Mr pankaj
    Request to watch other media except godi media.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Wed, May 27 2020

    Businessmen are still waiting for Rs. 20 L Crore Package ...

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  • Pankaj, Mangalore

    Wed, May 27 2020

    By the year 2025...India will become Super power country...will rule the world. Problem is how we convince ghulms and there party.

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  • Ramesh, Udupi

    Wed, May 27 2020

    Its only on paid social media that you can read India will be a super power. We cant provide proper facilities for poor migrants they are walking 1000 of kilo meters to reach their home and talking about we will be super power. India will be happy if poor gets proper 3 meals per day.

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  • AM, Mangalore

    Wed, May 27 2020

    Dear Pankaj, We seen it past six years how the economy is moving. When the economy start moving the Super hero of our country come at 8 pm and announce something and again all the bakths clap and say masterstroke. Desh chalana inki bas ki baath nahi. Don't call gulam who criticize Govt if you don't have guts to do so. We criticized UPA Govt also when it was wrong

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  • G R PRABHUJI, Mangalore

    Wed, May 27 2020

    Correct, 2 years back they old we will keep our first step on Moon in 2020.. But unfotunately everybody knows very well that where we have now kept our first step.

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