Today the benchmark Nifty50 index achieved another milestone when it scaled a fresh record peak of 15,455.5. The feat comes just a day after the Reserve Bank of India issued caution over the meteoric rise in stock prices amid a ravaging Covid-19 pandemic.
India's benchmark indices have more than doubled from the post-pandemic lows made in March 2020 while several individual companies have seen multi-fold jump in their stock prices. In May alone, nearly a dozen Nifty50 stocks have hit a lifetime high. These include State Bank of India, Wipro, Bajaj Finserv, Tata Steel, and JSW Steel. IT companies dominate the list of stocks that hit lifetime highs this year, followed by banks and financial services.
"This order of asset price inflation in the context of the estimated 8 percent contraction in GDP in 2020-21 poses the risk of a bubble," the RBI said in its annual report yesterday.
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