Everyone, but everyone, knows that stock markets globally are driven by two primal emotions, viz excessive greed (which brings about the end of a bull market) and fear (which signals the demise of the bear).

Although general elections are due next year, it is generally expected that they would be announced later this year, either as a gambit or as an inevitability if the Left withdraws support should the Government go ahead and sign the nuclear agreement with the US, as, indeed, it should, to mitigate the energy crisis that is sure to befall us.