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Wednesday, September 22, 1999

UTI chief is bullish on markets 

UNITED NEWS OF INDIA  
New Delhi, Sept 21: The chairman of the Unit Trust of India, P S Subramanyam, has said that he is bullish on the stock market and the rally in the infotech shares is in tune with the global valuations.

``I am optimistic and bullish on the market. It will certainly go up after the election results and formation of the new government,'' Subramanyam said here yesterday after a function for release of a book authored by a UTI official Daljit S Nirman.

The Unit Trust of India chairman justified the runaway rise in the shares of the infotech shares. ``If you compare them with the global market, they are still undervalued. But if you compare them with other sectors of the domestic economy, maybe they are over-valued,'' he said.

The Sensex is riding high even in the midst of elections on the back of infotech shares. The leader in this category, Infosys Technologies, Monday hit a new high of Rs 7074 commanding a market capitalisation of Rs 23,298 crore. The market cap of the IT sector has reached the highestamong all the segments of the industry.

Investors do not not seem to bother about the fact that despite seeing about 50 per cent growth in software exports, India is not a dominant player in the global market so far as the products are concerned. ``But India is soon going to be the number one player in software services in the world and that is what is driving the market around infotech shares,'' Subramanyam said. He said whatever little uncertainty persists in the market in the midst of election process would clear and the Sensex is set to go up after the poll results next month. While he shared concerns over the fiscal situation and the likely reversal in the inflation ration, Subramanyam has high hopes on the capability of the Reserve Bank of India and the Finance Ministry to tackle these issues.

Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.


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