Puneet Wadhwa, Rex Cano

Global economy will strengthen in 2013: BofA-ML

Fiscal cliff top concern and emerging markets a preferred region for investing, findings suggest.

'Political uncertainty alone will not affect markets'

Interview with president and CEO of Tata Mutual Fund.

'Rupee depreciation is a key risk to FII flows'

Jayesh Gandhi, executive director, Morgan Stanley Investment Management in an interview with Business Standard, says Indian equities continue to remain a long-term bull story based on the growth prospect for the country and, hence, in a way cannot be ignored by global investors.

The biggest worry for us is crude oil price: Nitin Jain

Nitin Jain, head, capital markets (individual clients) for Edelweiss Financial Services, talks about the uncertain economic environment and what investors could do.

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Indian markets started 2012 on a positive note. Ridham Desai, managing director and strategist and head of India equity research, Morgan Stanley, says, he expects a 15 per cent upside in the Sensex this year.

'IT sector provides a defensive bet'

Given the recent weakness in the rupee and the high forward premium, information technology companies can prove to be good defensive stocks with low downside risks in the prevailing market conditions, Moses Harding, head (global markets group), IndusInd Bank, tells Puneet Wadhwa.

'Put money in global assets as well'

The key triggers would be price of oil, inflation and results of state elections. If oil and inflation levels come down, there could be a rally.

'Markets to stay volatile in 2011'

We believe equity markets in 2011 will be volatile. However, for investors, volatility will provide investment opportunities.

'Sensex may scale up to 20,000'

India, per se, is witnessing more promising growth.

'Base rate not to affect home loans'

Anuj Puri, chairman and country head, Jones Lang LaSalle Meghraj, tells Business Standard that high prices and hardening of mortgage rates may act as a dampener.

RBI's rate hike hits realty, auto stocks

The central bank may increase both repo and reverse repo rates by another 25 basis points each in the next policy meeting.

Let markets find their own bottom

The Sensex recorded its second-worst fall since January this year and the biggest single-day percentage fall of 11 per cent in the last 16 years. It has been an October that can be best forgotten. In the last three weeks, the Sensex has shed a third of its value.

Rally skips widely held firms

Will bonus bug bite other IT firms?