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Opportunity in crisis: 5 sectors that may gain from coronavirus pandemic

As India moves to open up the country, investors look at sectors that have been resilient. Puneet Wadhwa charts sectors that are expected to do well in the next few months

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala cuts stake in Titan, Lupin, Escorts in March quarter

Currently, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and his family's net worth in listed companies stands at Rs 8,517 crore, compared to Rs 8,388 crore as on March 31, 2020.

RIL fixes May 14 as record date for rights issue. Should you subscribe?

Most brokerages expect the company to do well over the coming quarters and peg the target price for the stock higher than its current market price. Subscribing to the issue makes sense, they say

Foreign investors have been cautious about emerging markets: Raychaudhuri

Over the next year, we would expect Sensex and Nifty returns to be in line with their earnings growth

Nomura predicts Indian GDP to contract by 5.2% in FY21, more rate cuts

Analysts at Goldman Sachs expect the Indian economy to contract 0.4 per cent in FY21 versus consensus median 2.7 per cent

Tech-related firms in focus; PPFAS adds Microsoft to portfolio in April

Microsoft is one of the leaders in the cloud computing segment segment, besides Alphabet (Google) and Amazon, making the stock attractive

Stock market eyeing economy reopening, not virus-related data: Chris Wood

As regards the United States (US), Wood expects a gradual opening up in May

India's jewellery demand dips 41% to 11-year low in March quarter: WGC

Global holdings of physically-backed gold ETFs and similar products jumped by 298 tonnes during the March quarter - the highest quarterly inflows for four years

Markets at inflexion point; analysts bullish on consumer, telecom, pharma

The recovery seen in the markets from their March 2020 lows has been quite sharp, with the S&P BSE Sensex and the Nifty50 indices gaining 27.61 per cent and 27.18 per cent, respectively since then

Pharma index set to post its biggest monthly gain in 21 years amid Covid-19

Analysts, however, do caution against the rich valuation the pharma index and the stocks are trading at

Delta Corp, Emami: Share buyback via open market route at seven-year high

Thus far in CY20, 20 companies have announced buyback of their shares, of which, 14 firms have proposed to buyback from open market route

Covid-19 fallout: UBS pegs FY21 India growth at -0.4%, a four decade low

The worst-case scenario, assumes that coronavirus (Covid-19) will continue to spread, possibly in waves, all the way through to mid-2021

Rating downgrade by Moody's, negative outlook by Fitch likely, warns Nomura

India's Achilles heel on ratings, according to Nomura, is its parlous state of fiscal affairs

We have not had any panic redemption in recent weeks: Mirae Asset

In the recent past, we have used the market volatility to add some quality franchises and replaced our weakest holdings. Overweight healthcare, insurance, automobiles/consumer discretionary.

As a fund house, we are buying into this market correction: Mahesh Patil

Mid-and-small-cap stocks have seen a significant impact in this correction and the fall is giving a good opportunity to add good quality mid-and-small-cap stocks in our schemes, says Patil.

Gold can hit $3,000/oz as investors become risk-averse: BofA Securities

Variables such as nominal gross domestic product (GDP), central bank balance sheets, or official gold reserves will remain the key determinants of gold prices.

Facebook investment paves way for RIL to become debt-free by March 2021

According to estimates by Jefferies, the deal implies a pre-money equity valuation of Rs 4,362 billion ($57 billion) for Jio Platforms Limited (JPL).

Demand recovery, storage facility ramp up key for sanity in crude oil price

On Monday, the front-month US WTI benchmark crashed into negative territory for the first time ever in history

Policy measures may not offset Covid-19 economic damage in APAC: Moody's

Though Asia's external & fiscal buffers are generally more robust than those in other regions, equipping governments with more policy space, their policy responses will only cushion some of the impact

Our March 2021 target for Nifty is 10,100: Citi India's Abhinav Khanna

'Volatility is here to stay in the near term, for Indian as well as global markets, as a lot is still unknown about the future trajectory of the coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns across the globe'