The markets corrected sharply on Wednesday on the back of major growth concerns with most financial institutions pegging Q2 GDP growth at closer to 4.2%. Trump’s ambivalence also contributed to the weak sentiments in the market. Inflation could Read more [...]

The Moody’s outlook downgrade of India and the global economy is likely to weigh on the Indian markets on Wednesday. The impasse in Maharashtra will also be negative as it continues to be the hub of the financial sector in India. After Nomura, Read more [...]

The role of rating agencies in exacerbating the IL&FS crisis has come under the lens as SEBI takes a dim view of the role of rating agencies role in the case. SEBI has come down heavily on rating agencies for their role in the IL&FS crisis. IL&FS Read more [...]

Stock markets are likely to take support from the Ayodhya verdict over the weekend with markets expected to show positive moves on the back of greater certainty. However, the Maharashtra outcome will hold the key. The latest Nomura estimates that Read more [...]

MF flows in October showed a clear return of the debt funds but Mutual Funds flows into equity and ELSS funds were 50% lower than last year. Overall inflows into active equity funds and ELSS in October 2019 stood at Rs.6,489 crore, down 50% on a YOY basis. Read more [...]

Is the discount broking space in India getting overcrowded? Discount broking has grown rapidly in the last few years and has been helped along the way by better technology, improved bandwidth and the rise of mobile app usage. Most investors are now seeing Read more [...]

Government may not participate in DHFL bailout; and rightly so In the last few months, there have been strident calls for the government to intervene and sort out the DHFL mess. The problem is more than a year old. At one time, DHFL was considered the Read more [...]

Moody’s downgrade ignores a lot of recent reformist measures Rating agency, Moody’s, downgraded the outlook for the Indian economy from stable to negative. It needs to be recollected that back in 2017, Moody’s was the only global rating agency Read more [...]