Who else will take on the might of Microsoft, Google, and Amazon if not the Adanis, Ambanis, Birlas, or Tatas?, asks R Jagannathan.
Investors would track a host of macroeconomic data announcements scheduled this week, including inflation numbers, and also monitor global market trends, and trading activity of foreign institutional investors, analysts said. The ongoing quarterly earnings announcements and the rupee-dollar trend would also influence the markets.
'Whenever markets rally, the IPO pricing gets aligned to the prevailing market conditions.'
Be willing to learn from mistakes.
In the current calendar year, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have witnessed an impressive surge in initial public offerings (IPOs), surpassing the 2018 record. Over 150 SME IPOs have been introduced to the market, breaking the previous record of 141 set in 2018. According to data from PRIME Database, a primary market tracking firm, 147 companies successfully concluded their debut share sales by the end of October, raising a cumulative Rs 3,727 crore.
New-age tech tools and 'mystery shoppers' are helping the country's top bourse stay ahead of the curve against dabba trading platforms and entities dolling out unsolicited investment tips. In the past one month, the National Stock Exchange (NSE) has issued close to two dozen warnings and advisories against such activities. "We saw a rise of dabba trading or illegal trading platforms after the pandemic.
"The market will most probably open in negative territory but national fervour could help it in closing better," said Arun Kejriwal, director, Kejriwal Research and Investment Services. Global research firm Moody's Economy.com said, "Although the terrorist attacks are expected to affect market sentiment, local investors in Mumbai are well acquainted with terrorism and unlikely to engage in panic selling."
Arun Kejriwal, founder, Kejriwal Research and Investment Services, tells Krishna Merchant that with the second round of quantitative easing on, the US economy is likely to receive higher allocation of funds.
The foreign inflows to the country will remain unchanged as the cut in the interest rates by US Federal Reserve is too minimal to affect the global investment scenario, analysts say.The US market went up after the rate cut was announced and some of the Asia markets also gained. Indian markets too opened higher on Thursday but Sensex plunged about 200 points due to profit booking, Kejriwal added.
This trend shows that global cues had a very influential effect on our markets. "We should be growing on our own strength," Kejriwal cautioned, adding the "subprime issue was not resolved, not sorted out, it has just been postponed".
Unless unique, avoid investing in IPOs.
In good times, analysts justify valuations giving interesting investment rationale.
Direct investors should stagger their investments over 1-2 months.
Punjab's voters are dissatisfied with the Akali Dal-BJP ruling combine. The Congress does not have a strong agenda on which to fight the 2017 assembly polls -- fertile ground for the AAP to step in.
'If an investor wants to clone an ace investor's portfolio, s/he will be better off cloning the entire portfolio rather than cherry picking stocks selectively.'
Laggards yet, a number of smaller PSBs in the category have balance sheets which do not give much comfort.
Sputnik V is the third vaccine India has given the go-ahead to after 'Covishield', developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca and 'Covaxin', the indigenous vaccine manufactured by Bharat Biotech. Covishield is manufactured by the Serum Institute of India.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Realising, that there was a ground swell of anger against several lower level TMC leaders who were often accused of petty corruption in execution of public welfare schemes, Kishor designed the 'Didi Ke Bolo' (Tell Didi) campaign under which citizens could directly approach Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with their grievances.
Relations between an elected government of Delhi and the LG can never be cordial: It is just the way the relationship is structured.
Though stocks backed by private equity investirs are likely to have higher governance standards, investors should do their own due-diligence, experts tell Sanjay Kumar Singh
Over 93% of the orders in the year came from the central and state governments, PSUs, and NHAI.
Retail investors usually get caught up in the frenzy of a bull market and burn their fingers in IPOs, warns Tinesh Bhasin.
Before participating, consider company's long-term prospects, premium offered and acceptance ratio.
Laggards yet, a number of smaller PSBs in the category have balance sheets which do not give much comfort.
Among these, Hindalco and Vedanta from the metal pack have become multi-baggers, gaining 100 per cent in 2016
Tendering the shares in an open offer will lead to higher taxation.
The Indian Spring represented by Anna Hazare's anti-corruption campaign, which has culminated in the Aam Aadmi Party's impressive electoral debut in New Delhi, began around the same time as the Arab Spring in 2011 but they led to different outcomes in India and the Arab world, says Ramesh Ramachandran.
'To identify with the common man, Modi had to look like one.' 'The disastrous suit with his name written on it never made its reappearance.' 'Frequent dress changes during the day, which led Arvind Kejriwal to calculate that Modi spent crores on his attire ever year, too stopped.' 'Instead, a newer Modi emerged: Humble and eager to serve.' Narendra Modi has cleverly repositioned himself as a man of the masses in the past three years, says Aditi Phadnis.
'Khadi is my passion. The only idea behind this start up is to promote and popularise khadi.'
Choose a career that motivates you and one that you are good at, says Prof RSS Mani, education consultant and vice president-institutional development, ITM Group of Institutions.
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