MUMBAI : Rich and retail investors have turned bearish on index futures, the first time in nearly three months, indicating stocks trading at record levels may be close to a peak for now as tensions rise in West Asia. On Wednesday, when the Nifty kissed a fresh high of 22775.70Read More →
MUMBAI : Retail investors appear to have turned savvier with stock trading, cashing out of small-cap counters while prices ruled high. As a category, retail investors’ share in these stocks declined between the March and December quarters, a period when many small-cap stocks generated sky-high returns. In the past, manyRead More →
The battle of sentiment between the client category (comprising high net-worth and retail investors), and institutional investors has spilled over to the new year. The former has taken a bearish stance on index futures, and the latter a bullish one, a development likely to make markets choppy after a secularRead More →
MUMBAI : Individuals who invested up to ₹10,000 in the stock market made up a third of the entire investing community, including institutional and non-institutional, November data from National Stock Exchange (NSE) showed, even as their contribution to the turnover remained fractional. The data, considering so-called active investors who investedRead More →
MUMBAI : A battle of nerves has built up in India’s derivatives market with foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) betting the indices will rise further, while an opposing camp of retail and wealthy investors is equally convinced they can correct. Even as markets have hit record highs, National Stock Exchange’s ClientRead More →
The Sensex, which, unlike the Nifty, missed reaching a fresh high last week, is expected to test its previous record on the bullish sentiment. The outcome of the state elections–with the BJP leading in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh–reinforces the likelihood of the political party winning the national election nextRead More →
Dalal Street is on fire. Three out of four share sales that opened on Wednesday were oversubscribed on the first day itself, a feat last seen 27 months ago, with high net-worth individuals (HNIs) and small retail investors leading the charge. The initial public offering (IPO) of Tata Technologies Ltd,Read More →
Mumbai: Retail investors’ growing fancy for weekly options trading has reached staggering proportions with the whole of last year’s futures and options (F&O) volumes set to be surpassed in less than seven months of the current financial year. The interest in FY24 persists despite massive losses by individuals, and subsequentRead More →
It took a condom maker to revive the sagging market for initial public offerings (IPOs). Mankind Pharma Ltd, the New Delhi-based maker of the Manforce brand of male contraceptives, raised ₹4,326 crore in a blockbuster IPO in April, almost seven times the entire amount raised by three companies that wentRead More →
The number of retail participants trading in derivatives on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India Ltd, the country’s largest stock exchange, hit a record in August. Market participants said the surge was fuelled by the growing popularity of relatively cheaper zero-day options, which expire daily. The number of retailRead More →
