The answer to that depends on whether the globe is able to contain the virus spread, says Samie Modak.
With gold prices rising and debt holding steady, fund houses have launched multi-asset funds for passive customers who are not so nimble while churning their portfolios.
The report further noted that inflation is expected to fall to 4.5 per cent by quarter ended March 2017.
The ugly underbelly of the policies of economic liberalisation followed over the last two decades has been crony capitalism at its worst.
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.
He says he has tremendous expectations from RIL's broadband digital services business.
Bhartiya Janata Party patriarch Lal Krishna Advani has picked up for his blog this week a new book by the US-based Morgan Stanley executive Ruchir Sharma that identifies "graft driven inflation" and "crony capitalism" among the weaknesses and difficulties that can be a damper for India's high expectations.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is slated to present the Budget on February 26.
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.
Urbanisation is a core component to the process of city formation and building out India's competitive strength in the global markets.
Most players are looking to invest anywhere between $500 million and $1 billion in new ventures in the next couple of years, said experts on this segment.
''The outcome of the state polls may lead to some strategy-related permutations and combinations and the markets may extrapolate it to the likely outcome in the general elections.'
The biggest losers on the National Stock Exchange's benchmark Nifty 50 index are stocks that have seen the highest turnover over the past 12 months, according a report by Morgan Stanley.
Market participants were cautious ahead of WPI data release tomorrow.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has issued "certain observations" and "sought clarifications" on draft prospectus for Tata Consultancy Services Ltd's initial public offering.
Analysts are bullish on consumption and investment themes.
The challenge is to enhance opportunities for people to generate livelihoods through entrepreneurship, both big and small, argues R Jagannathan.
With India's stock markets being one of the best performing among the emerging markets, a number of global pension funds are planning to make India-specific allocations.
Investment by US PE firm KKR will add fire to Ambani's battle for dominance in the retail market that is also being eyed by Jeff Bezos' Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart.
JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, as well as Britain's Asia-focused Standard Chartered said they would try to support London's financial sector
The markets ended lower amid a volatile trading session on Monday after profit taking was seen across the board because of growth concerns.
If the latest strategy reports of some leading foreign institutional investors (FIIs) are anything to go by, then the outlook for the Indian equity market appears bleak. This is, despite section of experts pitching for the current attractive valuations.
The research also suggests that they are willing to cut their savings to retain their expenditure growth at previous year's levels.
The first issue is inflation, which has been widely discussed. The government is now rightly working on reversing fiscal and monetary stimulus to manage the inflation pressure.
Shares of Indian mining company Vedanta fell to a fresh low after analysts at Morgan Stanley initiated their coverage of the company with a stark warning of the risks faced by investors.
Citigroup will soon announce what its executives describe as a drastic plan to shed a host of businesses and shrink itself by one-third, a leading financial daily said on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the bank.
Against an offer of 4.55 crore shares of Adani Enterprises Ltd, only 4.7 lakh were subscribed, according to information available from the BSE. Adani Enterprises fell almost 20 per cent to below the offer price of its secondary sale as all the seven listed companies of the conglomerate took a beating in the aftermath of Hindenberg Reserach alleged that the group was "engaged in a brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme over the course of decades".
Many get confused between investing in equities and equity mutual funds. They think equity funds are the same as equities or stocks
The stock of Dixon Technologies (India), the country's largest listed electronic manufacturing services (EMS) player, was up 6 per cent in 10 trading sessions, boosting the gains over the last three months to 21 per cent. The gains came following reports that Dixon will produce laptops in India in partnership with US and Chinese firms under the production-linked investment (PLI) scheme. It recently signed an agreement to make smartphones for Xiaomi India.
Jefferies, IIFL, and JM Financial - none of which were in the top five last year - have now claimed the top spots in the league tables for equity capital markets (ECM) during the first nine months of calendar year 2023 (CY23), a period characterised by small- and mid-sized transactions. This shift marks a significant change, with these firms outperforming the bulge-bracket investment banks. According to data provided by Refinitiv, Jefferies leads the domestic ECM market, having handled share sales worth $2.3 billion, representing 12.4 per cent of the total volume of $18.4 billion for ECM transactions.
Foreign money has been pouring into India's fast-growing e-commerce sector, with investors ranging from Japan's Softbank Corp to Singapore's Temasek Holdings.
The Indian equity market has once again demonstrated its high beta characteristic in bear markets. The fundamental underpinning to this high beta status in bear markets is India's dependence on global financial markets to fund its macro -- more than three-fourths of the flows into India come from portfolio sources (which are linked to global financial market outcomes) -- quite the opposite of the emerging markets average.
Property developer Indiabulls Real Estate is talking to investors to raise at least $150 million (Rs 750 crore) from sale of shares to select investors as part of its qualified institutional placement (QIP) plan.
Less than three weeks after the curbs on participatory notes, overseas investors are rushing to invest in the booming Indian stock markets directly by applying for Foreign Institutional Investor licences.
Terming the just-concluded fiscal as an "okay year", a panel of financial experts said though this fiscal would be a challenging one, the domestic equity markets could turn out to be a "star performer".
In the mid-year monetary policy review on Tuesday, RBI, left the key interest rate unchanged but reduced cash reserve ratio by 0.25 per cent to infuse additional liquidity of up to Rs 17,500 crore (Rs 175 billion) into the system.
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