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Today the Indian market (^BSESN) jumped 514 points (5.5%). A similar gain is not noticed in the India Fund Inc. (IFN), probably because it did not fall yesterday along with the Indian markets. Does mean we will see continued improvements? Well, who knows. We saw several worse down days than today is an up day. I’d wait for a few more gains before jumping in. The volatiliy, though not uncommon with India Fund and the Indian markethas been larger than usual in the last couple of months. I’m still hanging on to IFN.

The Indian stock market has taken more beatings over the last two days, sending IFN down along with it. The Indian index closed below 10000 again today and all gains since Jan 27 have been erased in just over a week.

Despite today’s 200 point drop, IFN has not similarly dropped possibly due to strangth in US markets and the fact that it is already at early January levels. Morningstar still shows a premium of over 30% for IFN! Is it time to get in? I’d wait for several consecutive days upwards before buying. However I do feel that the current levels for the Indian indices are reasonable.