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Sundar Sethuraman covers equity markets and investment banking. Starting his career as a desk hand, he moved to a reporting role in 2016 and has worked in New Delhi, Mohali and Mumbai. He stumbled into journalism after wasting his prime in the bylanes of Trivandrum. He manages an Instagram page about his home town in memory of his flaneur days. He prefers political news over spectator sports and peppers his conversations with film references, and has read more blurbs than books. A keen explorer of Mumbai's food scene, he is the go-to resource for restaurant recommendations in Business Standard's Mumbai office.
Sundar Sethuraman covers equity markets and investment banking. Starting his career as a desk hand, he moved to a reporting role in 2016 and has worked in New Delhi, Mohali and Mumbai. He stumbled into journalism after wasting his prime in the bylanes of Trivandrum. He manages an Instagram page about his home town in memory of his flaneur days. He prefers political news over spectator sports and peppers his conversations with film references, and has read more blurbs than books. A keen explorer of Mumbai's food scene, he is the go-to resource for restaurant recommendations in Business Standard's Mumbai office.
In Q&A, Rajesh Bhatia spells out the key tailwinds and risks the domestic markets face at this juncture and how a long-short fund can help protect downside risks
Overseas funds dumped Rs 4,081 crore worth of shares of companies in the financial services sector, while IT shares worth Rs 1,665 crore were sold, according to data collated by primeinfobase.com
Bank Nifty index has been outperforming the benchmark Nifty. It has gained 4% in the past one month and 16% YTD. In comparison, Nifty is up less than 2% both on a one-month and YTD basis
Selling pressure is seen whenever the lock-in period meant for IPO anchor investors ends, particularly in companies backed by private equity investors
Profit-booking comes to play, investors dump FMCG, pvt banking stocks
Sensex, Nifty gain 0.9%, most in Muhurat trading since Samvat 2065
The benchmark Nifty ended Samvat 2078 at 17,576. The Sensex finished at 59,307, logging marginally negative returns
The top five issues accounted for nearly two-thirds of the IPO fund raise
Weakness in global equities was on the back of runaway inflation, disruption in commodity prices due to the Russia-Ukraine war, lockdowns in China, and unspooling of post-pandemic stimulus
Mop-up Rs 2,867 cr in CY22, as against Rs 25,335 cr in same period last yr
The fall in the Indian market is far subdued, compared to many global peers that have slipped into bear-market territory
Engineering and capital goods companies are likely to see revenue growth momentum, led by robust order backlog and pick-up in execution
Dip in dollar and bonds boosts global equities
Market players said buyback will support the stock price in the interim
The selling dragged the BSE Financial Services index by 4.7 per cent in the last two weeks of September.
Three decades have been benign for global equities, but that time is now changing
Analysts said that half of the BSE 500 firms trading below 200-DMA clearly indicates that market sentiment isn't strong and there is heightened selling pressure in the broader markets
The Nifty ended the session at 16,983 points, with a fall of 257 points, or 1.5 per cent
The stock underperformed both the Nifty and the Nifty IT index, which fell 1.5% and 2%, respectively
Even some big-ticket deals such as the LIC IPO did not generate higher fees