Tracking of Indian Export and Consumption and impact of it on GDP and India Inc

Dear Friends,

I am starting this thread with an intention to track a few macro factors very closely which impact our investment decision. Well perhaps every investor is aware and keen to track the GOLD price, Oil Price and CAD closely but some other important factors might have missed out from their purview like Export Growth, Consumption Growth, Rural/Urban growth/slowdown their historical details, reasons, and impact on GDP and India Inc.

So let me start will latest released data about July Export growth which is currently at 2.25% after a dip of 9.71%. Even though the number comes off a low base and depreciating rupee so not over encouraging but at least has shown some sign of revival. Govt is also able to cut the import growth by 10.4% after a cut of 9.06% in June. Thus helping the trade deficit stand at 13.43% from June numbers of 15.28%. The dip in import growth is mainly due to a 14% price drop-in Oil attributed to a 22.15% drop in India’s Oil import.
But major concern remains in engineering export which has slipped into negative and degrow by 1.69%. This is a real cause of concern since MSME is the biggest employment generating sector of India driven by engineering export growth. So any impact in this sector will lead to consumption slowdown alongside a big anticipated job cut in the auto sector.

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RBI Report Explained with Slowdown in Economy:-
The current slowdown is a combination of 3 factors ->

  1. Structural Factor
  2. Cyclical Factor
  3. Global Uncertainties

Structural Factor

a. A substantial decline in wage growth (both rural and urban wages) in recent times resulting in lower household savings (a result of conscious policy decisions to correct macro imbalances) has possibly slowed down the growth in real per capita income that is holding back demand.

b. The share of the private sector has declined from 50 percent during the 2007-14 period to 30 percent during 2015-19 in new project investments (in value terms).

c. A possible increase in current capacity utilization (at 76.1 percent) can happen only if the sector-specific issues are simultaneously addressed to boost the demand for bank credit.

Cyclical Factor

a. The criticality of the automobile sector can be gauged by a humongous 30 million employment on a per annum basis which it generates. Out of this more than 50 percent could be of contractual nature, hence the seriousness of the current auto slowdown.

b. Even in the US, after a long period of auto sector sluggishness, the July numbers gave some respite but that also may be an impact of the base effect.

Global Uncertainties

a. The global economy is currently in the uncharted territory and does not seem to be holding up and it is witnessing outlier events on a daily basis, the occurrence probability of which is practically non-existent given the assumptions.

b. Independent observers suggest that this was a 17-sigma event, which means that it should not have happened even once in the history of the universe.

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