‘Expensive’ India lures investors avoiding China risks

‘Expensive’ India lures investors avoiding China risks

The powerful rallies in Indian and Japanese equities as China’s market has slumped have reset Asia’s financial-market landscape, providing global investors with three competing poles for regional allocations. Even with China’s attractively low stock valuations, and Japan’s progress in improving corporate governance, almost half of 390 MLIV Pulse survey respondents selected India as the best … Read more

Demat account openings at record high, total accounts near 14 crore mark

Demat account openings at record high, total accounts near 14 crore mark

As the domestic equity market keeps on making new peaks every other day, a similar surge in new Demat account additions is also being seen. In December, the total new Demat account openings touched a new high of 42 lakh, taking the number of total Demat accounts to 13.93 crore.The addition of 42 lakh new … Read more

Nifty overvalued by 20%, says Kotak Equities, picks Britannia, NTPC for its All-Season portfolio

Nifty overvalued by 20%, says Kotak Equities, picks Britannia, NTPC for its All-Season portfolio

With a nearly 20% rally in 2023, Nifty is overvalued by as much, according to a report by Kotak Institutional Equities. The brokerage remains wary of an absolute return potential of the market from the current levels as it replaces ITC and Larsen & Toubro (L&T) with Britannia and PSU stock NTPC from its concentrated … Read more