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Is there any correlation between Sensex and Indian’s GDP growth?

The Sensex is often not in sync with the real economy. The movements in the benchmark index of the domestic capital markets have often been completely opposite to the happenings in the economy and those of the critical economic indicators.

History speaks for itself…


94-95

95-96

96-97

97-98

98-99

99-00

00-01

01-02

02-03

03-04

Nominal GDP
growth

17.4%

17.0%

15.9%

11.8%

15.0%

10.2%

8.0%

9.9%

7.8%

11.7%

Real GDP
growth

7.3%

7.3%

7.8%

4.8%

6.5%

6.1%

4.4%

5.8%

4.0%

8.5%

BSE Sensex*

13.7%

3.3%

0.2%

15.8%

3.9%

33.7%

27.9%

3.7%

12.1%

83.4%

BSE-100

12.2%

3.5%

5.5%

15.9%

2.7%

75.8%

41.7%

1.4%

12.5%

97.6%

BSE-200

NA

6.3%

4.9%

14.9%

0.8%

63.9%

41.1%

7.4%

8.9%

104.3%

Why if sensex falls there is news in the markets Indian economy not performing well?

Sensex is not a relevant index it is a quite narrow index just 30 companies cannot rule our Indian economy.