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Good Morning! Great news and cheap stock valuations never co-exist. Even recent history from 2001, 2003 and 2008-2009 suggests every time markets fall hard, they do bounce back. It may take a while for them to find their feet and find some sort of a bottom. And there is no hard and fast rule about how that happens. Markets get cheap when people do not have the confidence about what the future holds, and that is exactly the situation now. Dalal Street veteran Vetri Subramaniam says this is the time for investors to focus on valuations to figure out whether one should be positively disposed or negative disposed towards the asset class. MARKET CUES: Where do we stand >>> Nifty futures on the Singapore Exchange-traded some 162 points higher at 7 am (IST) in signs that Dalal Street is poised for a major rebound after Monday mayhem. On Monday, Nifty broke below its crucial support at 8,900 by a wide margin, opening the doors for further selloff that can take the ind...

Good Morning! The CEA has put out a solid explanation of Modi’s version of ‘New Deal’. The effect of Covid pandemic is a war-like situation, but it is different from a war, he says. It is causing supply-side disruptions, which are not permanent; just hands are off the machines. Temporary liquidity can tide over those difficulties. On the demand side, the impact can manifest if people start losing jobs. So, the demand-side measures are to lessen the impact on jobs. It is this focused resource allocation which helped the FM limit the stimulus impact on fiscal deficit at less than 2% of GDP. MARKET CUES: Where do we stand  >>> Nifty futures traded some 50 points down on the Singapore Exchange at 7 am (IST) in signs that Dalal Street was heading for some more selloff. At the end of Friday's trade, maximum Call open interest stood at Nifty strike prices 10,000 and 9,500 levels, and maximum Put OI at 9,000 and 8,500. Options data indicated an immediate tr...

Today’s Action Nifty, +1.8%; Sensex, +1.8%; Nifty Midcap, +1.9%;  Nifty Smallcap, +1.9%; Model Portfolio, -2.6% Market Pulse  Nifty gapped up to make an intraday high of 9,584 and in the process retook its 50-DMA (9,393). The market participants were enthused by the government’s package. However, it quickly succumbed to selling pressure and erased about 200 points. For the most part of the session, it traded in the range of 9,350–9,430 and closed slightly below its 50-DMA. In the broader market, both Nifty Midcap and Smallcap each closed 1.9% higher. Barring Nifty Pharma (-1.1%) and FMCG (-0.4%), all the sectoral indices closed in the green. Nifty PSU Bank (+6.1%) and Bank (+4.1%) were the major gainers followed by Nifty Pvt Bank, Realty, and Financial Services, with gains of around 3–4%. The advance-decline ratio was inclined toward decliners. Of 2,115 stocks traded, 1,324 advanced, 452 declined, and the remaining traded flat. However, we remain i...

Nifty Slips 6% During the Week!!  & Vista Equity Partners to Invest Rs 11,367 crore in Jio. Weekly Action Nifty, - 6.2 %; Sensex, - 6.2 %; Nifty Midcap, - 5.3 %; Nifty Smallcap, - 4.1 %; Weekly Market Review Weakness in the market persisted for the most part of the week. On Monday, Nifty staged a downside reversal and broke below its 50-DMA (9,778). On Tuesday, Nifty opened more than a per cent higher but failed to hold gains and the selling pressure intensified as the day progressed. As the loss percentage and volume threshold met our criteria, Tuesday’s session was considered as a distribution day. Nifty attempted to move higher in the latter part of the week but was not able to progress notably and oscillated around 9,200. Barring Nifty Pharma, all sectoral indices closed in the red. Nifty Auto, Bank, Financial Services, and Metal closed with a loss of 8–10% each. Few actions in the last week indicate ...