It was literally a Black Monday on Dalal Street. The Sensex crashes 536 points on Black Monday; loses 2000 points in 2 weeks. The pressure came from the rate sensitives as the markets started looking at most of the NBFCs and HFCs as vulnerable to any Read more [...]

Financials were the worst hit on Friday with stocks like Yes Bank and DHFL giving huge losses. There was heavy institutional selling and that could spill over to the coming week also. The real cues for the equity market on Monday will come from Read more [...]

The markets initially fell on trade war fears but the bigger overhang appeared to be the IL&FS issue. With $12.5 billion of debt, the spill-over impact will be much bigger. Goldman Sachs downgrade of Indian equities saw most of the richly valued stocks Read more [...]

News Announcement Impact Analysis The IL&FS effect takes its toll on the markets during the week Mutual funds started offloading bonds of other NBFCs following the IL&FS fiasco IL&FS has borrowings to the tune of $12.5 Read more [...]

Overall, it is likely to make the capital markets a better place… In its board meeting last week, the capital market regulator, SEBI, made some significant announcements. The current SEBI chairperson, Mr. Tyagi, has been very particular about making Read more [...]

There may be few alternative options for the RBI When the RBI first hiked rates by 25 basis points in June most analysts accepted it as a one-off event. When it was repeated in August, it was seen as a front-ending for the full year. Now traders and Read more [...]

We just saw a brief display of what it could entail… When DSP Mutual Fund sold DHFL bonds on Wednesday at a yield of 11%, it represented one of the steepest discount sales in recent memory and the impact was obvious. Fearing payment troubles at DHFL, Read more [...]

Markets resume trading on Friday after a trading break on Thursday. The pressure is expected to continue and most long positions may choose to be a little wary ahead of the weekend. Use market bounces to play on the short side. Rupee did show some Read more [...]