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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.
Despite differences in trading behaviour and portfolio construction, Bitcoin and Dogecoin emerged as the most popular crypto pairing across every age group in Q2-CY26 on the CoinSwitch platform.
While Nifty may be struggling to make new highs, history, analysts said, suggests such extended periods of failing to cross the previous day's high have often been followed by a meaningful upside.
Bernstein has, however, held on to some of the stocks in its earlier focus list - Larsen & Toubro (L&T), NTPC Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, Nuvama and HomeFirst.
For FII flows to accelerate - lower crude oil prices, rupee stability and two consecutive quarters of earnings delivery without downgrades seem must, says Jignesh Desai of Centrum Broking.
The biggest opportunity for a fund house to differentiate itself lies in the strength of its investment philosophy, people, and processes, Chugh said.
A sentiment knock across the pack was the realistic expectation, said Anirudh Garg, Fund Manager and Partner, INVasset PMS, with the magnitude inversely proportional to succession clarity.
Most of the group stocks such as TCS, Titan, Tata Communications and Tata Motors PV traded with cuts of up to 4 per cent in intraday deals on Wednesday.
Shriram Finance (up 28 per cent), Eicher Motors (up 22 per cent), Cholamandalam Financial Holdings (up 19 per cent) and M&M (up 19 per cent) have outperformed Nifty 50 this far in FY27, data shows.
Within the Nifty-500, DIIs were overweight in Consumer, public sector undertaking (PSU) Banks, Oil & Gas, Telecom, Metals, and Technology sectors in the June 2026 quarter, reports suggest.
India, Wood wrote, continues to benefit from improving domestic fundamentals, with bank credit growth accelerating to 17-18 per cent year-on-year in 2026.
For Indian markets, the bigger issue over the next few months, analysts said, isn't the repo rate, but how much more geopolitical pressure the rupee can take before the central bank has to step in.
HSBC had earlier upgraded Indian equities to "Neutral" from "Underweight" and raised its 2026-end target for the BSE Sensex index to 84,000 levels.
In the Indian context, Morgan Stanley expects the total power demand to rise 6.75 per cent between 2025 and 2030 to 668 terawatt-hour (TWh). Of this, datacenter will see a demand of 68 TWh.
Ajit Mishra of Religare Broking explains that stock prices were adjusting following a variation in behaviour during Monday's closing auction session on the BSE and NSE.
It is best for the investors miss the India IT pack bus as we believe with the adoption of AI, our IT services companies' revenue models will have to undergo a reset, Irani said.
In contrast, foreign institutional investor (FII) holding declined to a new low of 17 per cent in June 2026, the MOFSL note said.
G Chokkalingam, founder and head of research at Equinomics Research expects markets to reward stocks of companies where there is valuation comfort, earnings visibility rather than a broad-based rally.
The NSE Nifty 50 index has been quoting below its long-term 200-day moving average since February 27, 2026.
The best way to play the AI trade, Wood believes, is the picks and shovels trade, in terms of companies who are profiting, or are likely to benefit directly from the hyperscalers' spending.
Of the ₹7,756 crore total gain in her portfolio, one stock - Titan Company - has made her richer by ₹3,469 crore since April 2026