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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.
Nikkei 225 index hit the 40,000 mark for the first time ever on Monday, continuing its bull-run that saw the index reclaim its 1989 peak of 34,000 levels in February
Even as the Nifty seems on course to register decade high fiscal gains, the rally seems to have lost momentum in the recent months, with net gains well below the overall average in FY24 so far.
The development will be negative for other players such as Zee, analysts said, who will now have to compete with a much larger entity
On the global front, analysts expect the 'higher for longer' narrative as regards interest rates to play out for some more time as leading global central banks remain in a wait-and-watch mode
Based on free-float market capitalisation in the FTSE All-World index, which spans the investable universe for a global investor, the US market accounts for a staggering 60.5 per cent of total value
Equities have dominated bonds, while bonds have outperformed treasury bills
Analysts at Goldman Sachs, Bernstein and Morgan Stanley believe that Paytm can rally up to 75 per cent in a bull case scenario
While market valuation is high, it should be seen in the context of the acceleration in growth, Wood says
Within in PSU space Bernstein prefers ONGC, Coal India, IOC, Bank of Baroda, GAIL, BPCL, Canara Bank, HPCL, Oil India and MRPL.
As of Jan 2024, the price-to-book valuation for the Nifty50 index, according to HDFC Securities Institutional Research, was 114 per cent of the average historical valuation, indicating expensiveness.
Among markets, investors preferred India and Taiwan apart from Japan, while avoiding Thailand and China, the survey suggested.
The recent outperformance (before the sharp fall in past sessions), Jefferies said, was helped by earnings per share (EPS) upgrades and return on equity (RoE) improvement.
The index had slipped below the 50-DMA back in November 2023, too, but recovered.
Valuations of midcaps and smallcaps have reached very high levels, and hence to that extent leave little margin of safety, Sehgal said
Jefferies downgraded the stock to 'hold' from 'buy' earlier with a target price of Rs 430, down a huge 17.3 per cent from its earlier price target of Rs 520.
The S&P BSE PSU index has gained over 90 per cent in the last one year, rising much higher than the S&P BSE Sensex that has surged nearly 19 per cent during this period, show ACE Equity data
The S&P BSE Oil & Gas index has been an outperformer, surging nearly 20 per cent in CY24 as compared to the S&P BSE Sensex that has lost around 1 per cent during this period, shows data
The markets are already pricing in a victory for Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the upcoming general elections, and expect the alliance to achieve its 400-seat target, suggest analysts
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The 200-DMA is considered one of the most relevant trend indicators by investors and traders. They believe that stocks and indices trading above this key level exhibit strength and are likely to rally