Newspaper headline reads – “Modi’s ₹20 trillion package: What does it mean for stock markets?” Reminds me of a Hindi idiom – गाँव बसा नहीं लुटेरे पहले आ गए (Translation: The village is still not thriving, but the robbers have already come).
The first part of the article reads – “Indian equity markets rallied in early trade on Wednesday as the size of the economic stimulus package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is significantly higher than the Street’s expectations.” Well, after everything ‘unexpected’ that has happened over the past few months with the economy, businesses, markets and in people’s livelihoods, we are still playing the expectations game? Ha!