The BSE Mid-and Small-cap indices outperformed their larger peers rising 72 per cent and 52 per cent, respectively, during Samvat 2070.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, will answer your queries.
'At this point, it does not appear to be a Lehman Brothers kind of crisis, which had a domino effect on the financial system.'
In the near term, the key driver will still be the government's fiscal spending.
The index is more expensive than it was at 2014-end or when it hit a life-time high in January.
'The market movement will be largely driven by earnings growth.'
The BSE MidCap and SmallCap indices during this period have outperformed the blue-chip indices.
"Our house is gone, household goods have perished and all our animals killed. We did not have anything to eat," said Chamail Singh of Rajouri district while showering praise on Indian Air Force for air-dropping food items and other relief material.
Salil Dhawan shares his stock market wisdom as 2017 is all set to ring out.
In a live chat on rediff.com on Wednesday, July 16, 4 pm, Feroze Azeez, will offer some valuable suggestions on investments.
With stock prices at elevated levels, investors must cut valuation risks in their portfolio
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The lowest FMCG index valuation has been around PE 27, while the highest have been above 42PE.
HCL Technologies and Infosys should benefit more than TCS and Wipro
Rajneesh Gupta surveys the cricketing milestones from the Mohali Test.
The industry employs about 10 million workforce.
The automobile segment is our preferred area, and old favourites such as Tata Motors, Bajaj and Maruti Suzuki continue to entice us.
Be a disciplined investor for attractive returns, says fund managers.
As two recently declassified Intelligence Bureau reveal that the Jawaharlal Nehru government had spied on the family of Subhas Chandra Bose for nearly two decades, one of India's political mysteries takes centrestage. Rediff.com reproduces this 2006 report in which Sumit Bhattacharya reported that a website claims that Netaji, in fact, did not die in an air crash, as was being believed, and that Netaji had escaped to Russia.
They researched their companies well, didn't believe in the market chatter and advise to stay invested for long term.