While a three-year tax holiday and relaxation of capital gains for funds have been received favourably, others argue that not enough has been announced.
Sticking to smaller and mid-cap companies can be more fruitful, suggests Devangshu Datta.
Investors can sell their entire equity and move to debt when stocks get expensive
With the amended rules, companies can now have up to 74 per cent Differential Voting Rights shares of the total post issue paid up share capital.
The DCW chief had been demanding death penalty for rape of minors and setting up of fast-track courts across the country to try rape cases, along with other demands.
The Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi) has already taken up the matter with the market regulator and the finance ministry.
Investors not stop their SIPs or STPs due to election-related uncertainty.
'Election years tend to see high government expenditure on unproductive schemes, though that money sloshing around can boost private consumption.' 'Again, it can mean higher inflation,' explains Devangshu Datta.
Budget might turn out to be neutral for the sector.
'Now they're talking about changing the Constitution; they feel they have no reason now to hide their intentions.'
The exemption from MAT does not apply retroactively.
'If Trudeau chooses to repeat his allegations in his UN speech on Friday, it would create a whole new escalation.'
The broader Nifty, after touching a high (intra-day) of 10,555.50 points, finished at 10,539.75, up 84.80 points, or 0.81 per cent.
It won't be an easy ride for the markets, reckon experts, considering the multiple state elections in 2018 and general elections next year.
'This fall is nothing. We could see worse if everybody hits the panic button.'
Financial advisors say, not to get carried away by stocks that promise high returns in short time.
Flush with liquidity, banks are eager to lend. And, therein lies the problem, warns Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
'No Budget has so far has addressed the issue of the government's abysmal productivity of capital spending, improving which will be the big game changer. 'But, the government's tight lock on businesses, banks, education, and even essential services like transportation and large parts of infrastructure and healthcare is destroying capital year after year,' points out Debashis Basu.
Despite headwinds, it remains "structurally bullish" on India and expects the Sensex to scale up to the 70,000-mark by December 2022; 80,000 level in a bull-case scenario and hover around the 50,000-mark as a bear-case, the brokerage house said in a report.
'Long-term retail investors should not worry about these sharp dips and jumps if they have chosen their stocks wisely.' 'Short-term volatility is a given and a rise and fall of two-three per cent should not worry them.'
The Budget oration of the finance minister and the confidence with which she delivered it, along with the measures and the recent upsurge in the economy would all contribute to unleashing the storied 'animal spirits' and help the economy run on the growth path quite smoothly. Or so the government hopes, notes Shreekant Sambrani.
State owned banks SBI and PNB were the top Nifty gainers along with ICICI Bank and auto shares.
HNI investors need an optimal mix of oversubscription and listing-day gain to make money on leveraged bets, notes Sanjay Kumar Singh.
Long-term investors should consider moving into smaller stocks. Rather than try to pick stocks, it makes sense to build a diversified portfolio by exposure across midcap and small caps funds, suggests Devangshu Datta.
Ravi Gopalakrishnan, head-equities, Canara Robeco Mutual Fund, tells Ashley Coutinho that earnings growth will pick up once the benefits of reform initiatives accrue.
The engineering and construction (E&C) sector delivered an excellent performance in the last two financial years (FY2021-22 or FY22 and FY23's nine-months) and there's reason to believe that FY24 will also see outperformance. The sector has emerged from the pandemic with stronger balance sheets and more rational cost structures. It has a big order book and it should see new order flows accelerate in FY24.
'A time-wise, as well as price correction, so that the market can absorb the gains made over the past 17 months.'
Mauritius is biggest route for investment into India.
10 high dividend paying stocks across sectors that are expected to maintain or even increase their pay-outs in FY23 thanks to faster earnings growth in the last four quarters.
Most bankers say they will look at reducing deposit rates from April.
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