Sundar Sethuraman
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Sundar Sethuraman
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.
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Market selloff on FPI exodus erases ₹16 trillion mcap in a week
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A sigh of relief for markets after Donald Trump U-turn on Greenland
Indian equities rose as global markets rebounded and Trump softened his tariff stance, with hopes of a US-India trade deal lifting the Sensex and Nifty by 0.5%
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Tepid earnings, global uncertainty push FPI selling to highest since August
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Elara pegs FY27 Nifty target at 30,000, sees earnings-driven gains
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Signs of revival: Pre-IPO fundraising improved but fell short of 2023 peak
Pre-IPO fundraising more than doubled in 2025, but shrinking pricing gaps with IPOs and faster listings led many issuers to skip such deals, bankers say
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IT, FMCG sectors bore the brunt of FPI outflows in tumultuous 2025
Foreign investors favoured telecom and oil stocks amid broad equity selloffs
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Buoyed up by Gor's optimism on trade deal, markets end in green
Sensex rebounds 1,017 points from day's lows, ends 5-day losing streak
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Sensex and Nifty logged their sharpest weekly fall in over three months as tariff fears, FPI selling and weakness in heavyweights weighed on market sentiment
 "Worst week in over three months for indices amid new tariff fears")
Demat account growth halves in 2025 amid muted returns in equity markets
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 "Demat account growth halves in 2025 amid muted returns in equity markets")
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 "Nifty likely to end at 29,500 by December-end, says BNP Paribas")
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