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Small stocks have lagged behind the equity benchmark Sensex in 2022-23, falling nearly 6 per cent amid a host of negative factors like higher interest rate regime, high inflation and the Russian-Ukraine war. According to market analysts, it was a tumultuous year for the Indian equity market. The Russian-Ukraine war made the first quarter of the Indian equity market particularly difficult, but the second and third quarters witnessed a respectable rebound, they noted. Headwinds such as high inflation, the Russia-Ukraine war and higher interest rates hit investors' appetite for small stocks. With just one day of trading left in the current fiscal, the BSE smallcap gauge has fallen by 1,616.93 points or 5.73 per cent so far in 2022-23. The midcap index is down 270.29 points or 1.12 per cent in the 2022-23 financial year. In comparison, the BSE Sensex has declined 608.42 points or 1.03 per cent. "Many factors contributed to the underperformance of the Indian stock market in FY23. The

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Starting Jan. 27, stocks from Reliance Industries Ltd. to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. and Adani Enterprises Ltd will be settled on a 'trade-plus-one-day' timeline versus the earlier two-day process

US chip sanctions on China should be a wake-up call for India to quickly scale up and boost its capabilities in this critical arena

Chips of smaller nodes are faster and more profitable, but their factories can cost as much as a nuclear power plant

CHIPS Act is a win for a cabal of US chipmakers and foreign companies, but largely ignores the nation's true semiconductor leaders who have been propping up the domestic sector for two decades

It can be noted that very few developers like Macrotech Developers formerly Lodha, and DLF are listed on the bourses

While the global index provider hasn't added or deleted any Indian stocks, it has reduced weights of bluechip firms RIL, Infosys and HDFC

On a year-to-date (YTD) basis, the small-cap and mid-cap indices have gained 18 per cent and 20 per cent, respectively

All these counters witnessed aggressive buying for foreign portfolio investors

A level playing field for new entrants is opening up

Sundaram Bluechip Fund is an open-ended equity scheme predominantly investing in large cap blue chip stocks

Change effective March 27; NSE also moves Vodafone Idea, Indiabulls Housing Finance out of Nifty Next 50, brings in Torrent Pharma, Adani Transmission

Among the top 10 firms, TCS was the worst hit as its m- cap slumped Rs 11,408.78 crore to Rs 4,87,119.34 crore