Mumbai: Indian equity indices closed at fresh all-time highs on Wednesday with the Sensex ending above 74,000 for the first time, bucking overnight weakness on Wall Street. Private banks and select auto shares led gains as investors shuffled their holdings by cutting exposure in recent top performers, mainly smallcap and midcap stocks, considered to be … Read more
As the India stock rally remains unstoppable with Mr Retail behaving like the biggest bull of Dalal Street, investors have been left richer by nearly Rs 100 lakh crore in 8 months. The market capitalisation of all BSE-listed stocks, as a result, is now within kissing distance of touching the milestone of Rs 400 lakh … Read more
Jason Zweig quoted in his book The Intelligent Investor…The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The Intelligent Investor is the one who knows when to take risks and buy shares when there is pessimism…and avoid risk and sell … Read more
India’s markets regulator is looking at whether local mutual fund schemes investing in small and mid-cap stocks would be able to withstand sharp falls in stock prices or sudden outflows, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Such funds have seen heavy inflows over the past year, pushing up the prices of … Read more
Led by a Rs 60,000-crore plus spending by FIIs in the holiday-heavy month, December has turned out to be the best month for Nifty in the last one-and-a-half years with a 7.8% rally. The headline index, which hit an all-time high of 21,801.45 on Thursday, had rallied 5.5% last November. The previous best monthly gain … Read more
