Mumbai: India’s key stock gauges, led by banking and financial shares, slumped more than 1% each Monday on mounting concerns of an escalation in the West Asia conflict, while likely central bank intervention in the currency markets cushioned the rupee’s fall, but couldn’t prevent a record closing low for the unit. Benign inflation prospects on … Read more
Mumbai: Access to Dalal Street is no longer the exclusive preserve of Mumbai’s richer neighbourhoods or old-money Kolkata. Discount brokers, which began democratising equity exposure a decade ago, have since harnessed the mobile data revolution to tell India’s eye-popping growth story to ordinary savers in Madurai, Moradabad or Mangaluru – and wrest a three-fifths share … Read more
(This story originally appeared in on Apr 10, 2024) MUMBAI: An army of retail investors has found a strong footing on Dalal Street over the last decade thanks to a bullish market and a pandemic-driven digital push. In April 2015, India had just over 2 crore individual demat accounts – the actual number of investors … Read more
After an overwhelming show in FY24, domestic equities look poised to kickstart the new financial year on a good note and test new highs, as capital flows remain buoyant and the underlying factors conducive for the bulls to keep their foot ahead of the bears on Dalal Street. Benchmark Nifty50 bid goodbye to FY24 after … Read more
MUMBAI: Undoubtedly, the current financial year has been a remarkable one for the little ninjas of Dalal Street – smallcap stocks – as we saw as many as 181 of them turning multibaggers. What’s worth noting is that more than 100 of these smallcap stocks went through a bad phase in the preceding financial year. … Read more
MUMBAI – After being net sellers in the last two months, foreign portfolio investors made a comeback to Dalal Street in this month, as they poured in a whopping Rs 43,900 crore across 13 sectors in the first fortnight of March. About eight sectors received inflows of more than Rs 1,000 crore each, data by … Read more
As investors continue to pour money into stocks and equity funds, asset managers are raising more cash in their portfolios. February month data shows that the total cash pile at equity mutual funds rose for the second consecutive month to 4.82% of total assets under management (AUM) at Rs 1.33 lakh crore. SBI Mutual Fund … Read more
MUMBAI: Brokerage executives and the thousands of bright young people that run Mumbai’s buzzing dealing rooms and research, sales and product desks will likely get record incentive payouts and bonuses this year, matching the handsome rewards for both D-Street veterans and recent converts to the equity culture through a period of unprecedented gains for India’s … Read more
Investors in multiple smallcap and penny stocks, in which entities involved in the multi-crore Mahadev Online Book illegal betting application scam held a stake, have lost up to 37% this month. While Dubai-based alleged hawala operator Hari Shankar Tibrewala and related entities owned more than 30 listed stocks, at least 6 of them have been … Read more
MUMBAI – Private banks, which have always been the favourites of institutional investors, lost the spot to public sector banks who are touching the sky riding on retail bulls. So far in 2024, all public sector banks have given double-digit returns to investors. On the contrary, private sector banks have seen single to double-digit fall … Read more
