Puneet Wadhwa leads all stock & financial markets’ coverage at Business Standard. He has an experience of over two decades in managing India’s busiest print, digital and electronic newsrooms at the Outlook Group, NDTV and Hindustan Times.
Puneet Wadhwa leads all stock & financial markets’ coverage at Business Standard. He has an experience of over two decades in managing India’s busiest print, digital and electronic newsrooms at the Outlook Group, NDTV and Hindustan Times.
The fall from peak levels in these segments, according to Gaurang Shah, senior vice-president at Geojit Financial Services has also been account of earnings disappointment besides amid high valuations
Festival flop, sluggish spending, job drought, and market correction sink consumption stocks
Surana shares his insights on navigating uncertain market conditions
Higher inflation and lower purchasing by consumers, it seems, has taken a bite out of consumption-related stocks at the bourses, with most counters losing ground in the last few months
There is growing evidence of liquidity tightening in the US, Wood said, which raises a near-term risk to equities
Indian households, Desai wrote, are still under-invested in equities. At cost, only 3 per cent of the household balance sheet is in equities, excluding equity holdings of founders.
An index or a stock is said to be in a 'correction' phase when it has dipped over 10 per cent and up to 20 per cent from its recent peak level. A 20 per cent or more fall is termed as a 'bear' phase
Morgan Stanley expects Indian markets to deliver a low double digit return in the next decade. However, it expects cash, derivative trading to rise as investors churn aggressively churn portfolios.
BS BFSI Summit: Mehra, who prefers to take a calculated and a cautious approach to stock market investing, has been warning against a market correction since the past few quarters
BS BFSI Summit: There is limited room for PE multiples to move up and return expectations going ahead have to be moderate, analysts said at the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit
US election results: A Trump sweep is positive for equities and reinforces Julius Baer's long-standing preference of US equities over Europe
Charts suggest that the Sensex could slide down to 72,000 levels, in the worst-case scenario, wiping out all the gains made thus far in calendar year 2024 (CY24).
Rahul Arora, CEO for institutional equities at Nirmal Bang, tells that, with earnings disappointments in India, foreign flows may not return immediately
A Trump win in November 2024 polls, experts believe, is likely to benefit Indian auto, energy and metal sectors
DIIs in Samvat 2080: There has been a structural change (since Covid) as to how retail investors approach the stock markets
Jignesh shares his outlook on the midcap and smallcap rally, which he expects to persist over the next two to three years, albeit with intermittent corrections that could present buying opportunities
If the Nifty is unable to sustain above 24,500 levels, technically it can then slip to its 200-DMA placed at 23,365 levels, charts suggest.
Midcap Index, SmallCap index: The mid- and small-cap indices on the NSE back home have gained 25.7 per cent and 26.7 per cent, respectively in CY24
Stock Market Samvat 2081 Outlook: Analysts suggest investors put most of their investible surplus in the safety of large-cap stocks
Oil price outlook: Given the low level of oil inventories, there could be a sustained geopolitical premium in crude price until the conflict is resolved in the short-term