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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.
The renewed interest by FIIs in Indian stock markets could be a one-off, said market analysts, who expect flows - both domestic and foreign - to remain volatile going ahead depending on news flow
From Ridham Desai of Morgan Stanley, Wei Li, Global Chief Investment Strategist, BlackRock Inv. Institute and Shridatta Bhandwaldar of Canara Robeco MF, here is the market strategy of leading analysts
As an investment strategy, Morgan Stanley remains overweight on financials, consumer cyclicals, and industrials; and are underweight on energy, materials, utilities and healthcare.
The tariff measures announced have the potential to weaken global trade and consumption, putting pressure on both margins and volumes for export-oriented manufacturers
The NSE Nifty 50 has been trading above the psychological 20,000-mark since December 2023. Here are the key levels to watch out for on the index.
Credit event risks have been a feature of nearly all the past crises such as the global financial crisis in 2008 and the more recent Covid-triggered scare in 2020.
The best time to invest is when panic grips markets and valuations are attractive. While there is fear in the market today, valuations haven't reached cheap levels yet, Naren of ICICI Pru MF said
They suggest that the announcement of tariffs by US President Donald Trump has trapped markets in a bottomless pit for now, forecasting further declines in the near future
The gross domestic product growth for FY26 is estimated at around 6.5%, and the earnings growth for Nifty for FY26, said Sandeep Nayak, ED and CEO at Centrum Broking
Tariff hikes are plain news as the historic precedent of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 highlights. This is an impoverishment day, not a liberation day, Wood said in his weekly note GREED & fear.
The key risks to the upside in gold, BofA Securities said includes US fiscal consolidation, reduced geopolitical tensions, and a return to collaborative inter-governmental relations
Analysts at Barclays, meanwhile, estimate that nearly $22 billion worth of India's exports (30 per cent of exports to the US and 5 per cent of total goods exports) are most at risk
At a broader level, meanwhile, Wood suggested investors sell rallies in the US stocks and increase exposure elsewhere, most particularly Europe, China and emerging market equities in general
Nifty 50 has corrected 10 per cent from its peak in September 2024, Goldman Sachs said, driven by cuts in EPS growth following a slower macro as well as a sharp correction in valuation multiples
As things stand, the small-and mid-caps look relatively more expensive, said Jyotivardhan Jaipuria, founder & managing director, Valentis Advisors, and can underperform in the early part of FY26
Manghat tells that they have increased cash positions across most of their schemes over the past few months
Forgotten asset classes like fixed income are being talked about, along with hybrid funds and offshore funds exposure from a diversification perspective
Among individual IT stocks, Infosys slipped over 5 per cent in intraday deals on Wednesday, after Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock to 'equal weight', and preferred TCS.
Investors should not rush into IndusInd Bank stock right now, but buy on news flow and in a phased manner, reckons Gaurang Shah of Geojit Financial Services.
The risk-reward for the Indian markets, Morgan Stanley said, is turning favourable, and see the Sensex at 93,000 levels by December 2025 - up 25 per cent from the current levels as their base case.