After opening the day on a negative note, share markets in India continued to witness losses. Sectoral indices are trading on a mixed note with stocks in the IT sector and healthcare sector witnessing maximum selling pressure. Telecom stocks are trading in the green.
The BSE Sensex is trading down 237 points (down 0.8%) and the NSE Nifty is trading down by 58 points (down 0.6%). The BSE Mid Cap index is trading flat, while the BSE Small Cap index is trading down by 0.4%. The rupee is trading at 64.09 to the US$.
Infosys share price is witnessing selling pressure today as the company's CEO and MD Vishal Sikka announced his resignation with immediate effect.
With the above development, U B Pravin Rao has been appointed Interim Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director reporting to Sikka under the overall supervision and control of the company's board.
The board of directors of Infosys have accepted the resignation and said that Sikka would continue as Executive Vice-chairman.
One shall note that Infy's fate has gone through a transformation after Vishal Sikka took over as CEO and Managing Director in August 2014.
As we wrote in one of our editions of The 5 Minute WrapUp...
At the time of writing, the stock of Infosys was trading down by 7%. Market participants are keeping tabs on the company's board meeting scheduled tomorrow to consider a share buyback.
In the news from global financial markets, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) again warned China over its ballooning debt crisis. The IMF said that China's massive debt is on a dangerous path, raising the risk of a sharp slowdown in growth.
The report by IMF stated that while China's near-term growth outlook has firmed up, it is at the cost of further large and continuous increases in private and public debt, and thus increasing downside risks in the medium term. It also warned that the country's debt load could soar from around 235% of gross domestic product (GDP) last year to more than 290% in 2022.
Note that, while the Fed's balance sheet expanded rapidly during the financial crisis, from less than US$900 billion before 2007 to US$4.5 trillion in 2014, the PBOC's balance sheet less than doubled in size during that period.
China is staring at rapid domestic credit growth. Also, as per ratings agency Moody's, China's structural reforms are not enough to arrest its rising debt.
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded China's sovereign ratings by one notch to A1. The agency expects the financial strength of the world's second-largest economy to erode in coming years as growth falters and debt continues to rise.
Many economists are also of the view that central bank stimulus measures are masking the deeper problems of industrial overcapacity and high levels of corporate debt in China.
So there remain many concerns for China.
A recent issue of Vivek Kaul's Inner Circle (requires subscription) takes a closer look at the Chinese economy and explores how America and China are on the verge of swapping their economic ideologies.
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