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Nikita Vashisht is a business journalist tracking equity markets for Business Standard. She writes stories based on fundamental analysis of stocks of banking, aviation, FMCG, infrastructure, real estate, and new-age companies. Occasionally, she also writes on investment strategies for mutual fund investors. Nikita holds a degree in journalism, and business management, and is a certified fundamental and technical analyst for stocks and commodities.
Nikita Vashisht is a business journalist tracking equity markets for Business Standard. She writes stories based on fundamental analysis of stocks of banking, aviation, FMCG, infrastructure, real estate, and new-age companies. Occasionally, she also writes on investment strategies for mutual fund investors. Nikita holds a degree in journalism, and business management, and is a certified fundamental and technical analyst for stocks and commodities.
Systematic investment plans (SIPs) will be the preferred mode of portfolio building at this juncture, he said
Analysts believe that the superior valuations of SBI Card and Payment stock would likely hold despite the near-term challenges
Maruti Suzuki India's net profit slipped on account of lower sales volume and increase in commodity prices
Lower provisions will be a key driver, backed by healthy operating profit growth; commentary on asset quality and collections among monitorables, write Subrata Panda & Nikita Vashisht
The rise in net profit, analysts say, will be supported by much lower provisioning in the quarter and a double-digit growth in operating profit
A fresh Covid wave can potentially disrupt the recovery of businesses hurting some sections of HDFC Bank's loan book, analysts say
Q4 earnings: Despite a moderated YoY growth in loan book, HDFC Bank continues to outperform industry, resulting in market share gain
On the profitability front, the brokerage pegs operating profit growth at 15 per cent YoY with 12 per cent YoY for private and 19 per cent for PSBs
Analysts believe that the truer impact of Covid-19 as regards NPAs could be visible in the quarter even as banks may be tempted to remain prudent due to the second wave of coronavirus
Analysts at ICICI Securities, for instance, have downgraded TCS' stock from 'Add' to 'Hold' while Kotak Securities maintains 'Reduce'
Index heavyweights such as Reliance Industries, HDFC Bank, HDFC, ICICI Bank, SBI, Bajaj Finance, TCS, and L&T declined up to 7 per cent.
Rupee vs Dollar: Over the short-term, currency watchers expect the rupee to fall on the back of the RBI's plan to buy government bonds worth Rs 1 trillion from the secondary market
RBI monetary policy 2021: The recent surge in Covid-19 infections, however, imparts greater uncertainty to the outlook, RBI governor Shaktikanta Das said today
India is battling a second Covid wave as its economy recovers from last year's devastation. And the RBI is unlikely to change lending rates. How will these factors influence stock markets in FY22?
Despite the economy slipping into a technical recession with all the economic activity coming to a standstill for months together, markets registered their best financial year performance in a decade
In FY21, the S&P BSE Sensex and Nifty50 have rallied 68 per cent and 71 per cent, respectively
According to a March 19 note by BofA Securities, US 10-year Treasury yields could rise to 2.15 per cent by the end of calendar year 2021
India Ratings believes increasing data usage and rising proportion of higher ARPU data customers in the overall subscriber mix hint that even without tariff hikes, the sector is structurally strong
Strong product demand is expected to drive loan book of lenders
Liability seen at Rs 8,000 cr if govt does not foot the bill; more transparency expected, loan recoveries to start