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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.
India, analysts said, remains in a relatively better position amid strong fundamentals. Though valuations remain a concern, investors can use markets correction to buy quality stocks for the long-term
Gold prices, CLSA said, have risen from $1,806 per ounce (oz) since Tokyo Olympics 2020 began on July 23, 2021 to $2,387/oz at the start of Paris Olympics 2024 on July 26
Indian stock market is much more resilient in the face of a US downturn and related Wall Street sell-off than the likes of Japan, Wood said
Devarsh Vakil, Deputy Head of Retail Research, HDFC Securities suggests that for the Nifty50 index to move up from the current levels, bank and IT sectors need to perform and do the heavy lifting
Buyback and tax-free dividend had a gap and an equalisation was needed. Volumes in F&O trading had gone up rapidly and, in a way, the increase in STT on F&O will protect investor interest, he said
From the July 23 Budget 2024-day low, the midcap and the smallcap indices on the BSE have seen a surge of over 6 per cent and 7 per cent respectively
Gold demand India: Gold prices, meanwhile, surged 18 per cent year-on-year (YoY) in the June 2024 quarter to $2,338.2 an ounce (oz), and were up nearly 13 per cent when compared with the December 2023
In dollar terms, gold prices hit $2,331/oz at the end of H1-CY24, according to WGC data, rising 12.1 per cent during this period
FIIs net sold stocks worth Rs 10,712 crore in the cash market, and index futures worth Rs 10,336 crore in the derivatives segment in the three trading sessions post Budget 2024.
"There were indeed no big-bang announcements, but on the other hand I don't think the market was expecting any"
As markets sift the Budget's fine print, they'll also monitor Q1 earnings, monsoon trends, and global factors
Mumbai and the National Capital Region (NCR) are likely to be hit the most by Budget 2024 property indexation benefit loss, said analysts at CLSA in a note
STT on derivatives hike in Budget 2024: While unveiling the Budget 2024 proposals, the first budget in the Modi 3.0 regime, FM Nirmala Sitharaman announced a slew of changes relating to stock markets
Union Budget 2024-25 impact: DLF, Brigade Enterprises, Prestige Estates, Godrej Properties and Sunteck Realty dropped up to 5 per cent afer FM proposed to withdraw indexation benefit on house resale.
In the worst-case scenario, the Sensex can slide to 75,800 levels, which is the 50 per cent retracement level from the June 4 Lok Sabha election outcome-day low, said Ajit Mishra of Religare Broking.
The Indian stock market, the survey said, was among the best-performing markets, with India's Nifty 50 index rising 26.8 per cent during fiscal FY24, as against a drop of 8.2 per cent during FY23
Capital gains tax rate change in the Budget 2024 on July 23 can trigger a bigger correction than seen post Lok Sabha election outcome, Wood said
As a sign of continuity at the US Federal Reserve (US Fed), however, Trump, reports suggest, wants Jerome Powell to continue till his term ends
Valuations are reasonable and the outlook is improving in IT, BFSI and FMCG. Defence, engineering and power are clearly overpriced and some profits can be taken, Nischal Maheshwari of Centrum said
The rally in microcap stocks, according to Devarsh Vakil, Deputy Head of Retail Research, HDFC Securities, has been on the back of growth in earnings in a lot of these companies