India's GDP touches $1 trillion

Mumbai: India's gross domestic product has topped $1 trillion, thanks to a strengthening rupee, making it the 12th country to achieve the milestone, Credit Suisse said on Thursday.


"Indian GDP at the current price level is 41 trillion rupees. With the rupee appreciating to below 41 against the US dollar, yesterday was the first day for the economy to be a trillion dollar economy," the Swiss investment firm said in a note.


The rupee, which is trading around 40.76 to a dollar, has appreciated about 8.4 per cent this year and is up 15.4 per cent from a three-year low of 47.04 in July last year.


Stock markets in eight out of 10 countries had risen in the one year after their economies first crossed $1 trillion, Credit Suisse said.


However, India's $944 billion stock market should probably drop because of slower earnings growth for sectors such as autos, banks and cement, before picking up as inflows pick up into fast growing economy.


"Given our outlook... it is likely to go down again in the near future before it sustainably stands above this mark," it said, referring to $1 trillion.


The benchmark BSE stock index was trading up 0.4 per cent at 14,278.64 points at 1:05 pm.


It has risen about 15 per cent from its early April low on good quarterly results and a central bank decision this week to leave interest rates unchanged at its policy review.

Source: IBN LIVE