Given the crucial phase India is going through in fighting the Coronavirus or COVID-19 outbreak, the government has announced a complete nationwide 21 days lock-down, at least until April 14, 2020. Domestic airline services have decided to shutdown from Wednesday, 25 March 2020. Many manufacturing companies have made up their mind to cease production and…
The Indian equity markets have witnessed massive selloff in the last few days. Persistent selling has been due to fears of global recession as coronavirus continues to spread rapidly, taking the markets to its retrograde point from 3 years ago. Some experts believe that the impact of coronavirus on the economy could be even worse…
Is today the right time to increase equity exposure? Have the markets bottomed out? Or will there be more troubles ahead? These questions have probably crossed your mind at least once if you are looking to take advantage of the recovery from the current equity market crash. Markets have become highly unpredictable now with the impact…
As you know, markets have been volatile ever since Coronavirus became a global epidemic. From the all-time high of 42,273.87 points on the S&P BSE Sensex (made on January 20, 2020), we ended at 31,390.07 points as of March 16, 2020. That is a -26% correction in less than two months. The S&P BSE Sensex,…
Nippon India Mutual Fund – one of India’s largest mutual fund houses. Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund – one of the most renowned global asset managers. UTI Mutual Fund -India’s oldest mutual fund house. I feel such milestones do not carry much meaning if fund houses can’t live up to the brand value and the expectations…
The equity market is surrounded by troubles from all sides and may slowly slip towards a bear phase. At a time when concerns regarding economic growth stay unabated, the pandemic of coronavirus has aggravated the pain. During such turbulent and uncertain times I know that it is difficult to watch the value of your investment…
Last week when I covered a note on Union Midcap Fund, I mentioned how the equity markets have been affected due to the outspread of coronavirus globally. Added to the existing woes of domestic and international macro and microeconomic factors, another news broke on Friday, March 6, 2020, that caused markets to crash further. A hot favorite…
Last Friday- March 6, 2020, will be remembered as another Black Friday. With Coronavirus or COVID-19 turning out to be almost a pandemic (with confirmed cases and deaths rising across many regions and nations), fear gripped and equity markets across the world sunk! But aside from the Coronavirus epidemic, for the Indian equity market, the RBI’s 30-day…
Large caps have had a dream run in the last couple of years, whereas mid and small caps felt the weight of economic slowdown. But now it seems even large caps will find it difficult to escape the downfall as the coronavirus endemic tightens its grip. The virus which has been spreading rapidly all over the…
My sister, who is based in Shenzhen with her family and is a lecturer in a respectable school, flew down from China in January this year and is, now back here in India with her family until the pandemic of novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 (a pneumonia-like virus causing cough, fever and shallow breathing) diminishes. The…
