India: Equity market liberalization fails to excite

Opening for foreign investors will have only long-term effects; QFIs force for stability

Even a couple of years ago, India’s snap decision in January to permit foreigners to invest directly in the country’s stumbling stock markets would have made headlines around the world. Instead it was greeted with apathy. With India’s markets at multi-year lows and leading corporates weighed down by inflation, high interest rates, a weakened rupee and worrying dollar debts, the development passed most people by. Even India’s financial media, usually frothy with excitement over a hot stock or a regulatory sweetener, barely broke sweat.

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