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Market experts advise caution despite a brief equity rebound, citing ongoing global uncertainties and geopolitical tensions.
Mumbai: India's fear gauge for equity assets logged its steepest advance since the first Covid shutdown week six years ago, with the volatility index, or the VIX, cumulatively climbing nearly 50% in two trading days through this truncated work week. The fear gauge is now at its highest level in 10 months and analysts warn that such huge jumps do not bode well for the markets, and any pullbacks in such times could be temporary, until geopolitical conflicts are resolved.
Nearly 80% of Indian stocks are deep in bear market territory, hidden beneath modest index declines. Small and midcap companies have faced prolonged selling, but fundamentals remain strong.
The shares of Asian Paints, Indigo Paints and other paint makers plunged up to 6% to multi-month lows on Monday as crude oil prices shot up amid strong escalations in the ongoing tensions in the Middle East after US and Israel attacked Iran, killing the latter's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and sparking strong retaliation from the country. UK’s second largest bank Barclays on Saturday increased its forecast for Brent Crude oil futures to $100 per barrel. As things stand right now, we think Brent could hit $100 (per barrel), as the market grapples with the threat of a potential supply disruption amid a spiraling security situation in the Middle East,” the bank said in its report.
Niftys decisive breach of its 200-day SMA at the close of the month has intensified concerns around a potential retest of recent swing lows, signalling that the markets medium-term support framework is under pressure, says Anand James, Chief Market Strategist at Geojit Investments.
HDFC Mutual Fund has announced the launch of HDFC Income Plus Arbitrage Omni FOF, an open-ended Fund of Fund scheme designed to provide investors exposure to arbitrage schemes and active / passive debt-oriented schemes. HDFC Income Plus Arbitrage Omni FOF will dynamically manage its allocation by adjusting portfolio duration and credit exposure based on factors such as the interest rate outlook, RBI monetary policy, yield curve dynamics, liquidity conditions and arbitrage spreads between the cash and futures markets, according to a press release by the fund house. The scheme will aim to maintain the exposure to units of debt-oriented mutual fund schemes, debt securities and money market instruments below 65%.
ET Intelligence Group: The stock of Capillary Technologies India has lost 35% from its peak three months ago, including 15% drop since February 6 when it declared the December quarter performance. For Capillary, the operating margin before depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA margin) has gradually expanded to 13% in the first nine months of FY26 from FY23 when it had posted an operating loss. The company added 12 clients in the first nine months of FY26 and reported an order book of Rs 66 crore compared with Rs 53 crore in the year-ago period.
40 on the BSE on Wednesday after BofA Securities upgraded the stock to “Buy” from “Neutral” and sharply raised its target price to Rs 840 from Rs 480 — an increase of 75%. Vedanta Q3 snapshot Vedanta reported a 61% year-on-year jump in consolidated profit to Rs 5,710 crore for the third quarter, with revenue rising 19% to Rs 45,899 crore.
