Only a path-breaking budget can attract capital: Market expert

Asserting that after a bad economical week, one can take solace only from the positive ending today, market expert Sunil Shah on Friday said that only a path-breaking budget can attract capital.

"It has been a disastrous week. Sensex has gone down to what the levels were prior to May-2014. The reasons are external, but this week's fall I will attribute only to internal reasons. We are in the middle of Q3 result seasons and the results are very disappointing, especially the results which were announced this week. Especially results of PSU Banks were very bad," he told ANI.

"Since the new government's formation people had hoped that things will change and that the corporate performance will improve. But there is a clear cut lack of demand and the top-line has not grown, the bottom-line has not grown, the margins have not improved, in spite of lower commodity prices and one interest rate cut low crude oil prices have not translated into margin improvement for corporate India," he added.

He further said that somewhere down the line, he felt that investors are apprehensive and sceptic about the overall scenario in the market.

"I think they are withdrawing money for the simple reason that they feel that 'let's wait on the sideline, since the budget is round the corner.' If it is going to be a path-breaking budget, then we will attract a lot of capital," he said.