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After dream run, Indian markets likely to run into rough weather

Several worries on the horizon for equities, which just had their best month in two years

Bank rally lifts markets to three-month high; Sensex, Nifty climb over 7%

Most global markets traded in the green on Friday after the yield on 10-year US Treasury softened to 2.97

Market's fate rests on floaters

These investors stay in or out of the market for long periods

Indian markets drop 1% even as global equities rally; PNB falls 2.1%

Most global markets posted their biggest weekly advance in nearly a year but Indian equities ended the week unchanged

Sebi chief believes LTCG tax will have some impact on Indian markets

Sebi chief Ajay Tyagi said that volatility in Indian markets may continue for some time due to global reasons like the healthy US job markets numbers

Markets slump: Will govt scrap LTCG tax? Adhia says will 'look into' fixes

Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia said he will discuss the issue of fall in local markets with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

Move over Japan: 'India fifth most attractive market for investments'

The findings of the PwC survey come on a day when the rich and powerful are meeting in Davos for the World Economic Forum's annual summit

Indian equity rally still has room for bull run, suggests a '$6 bn' manager

Domestic and overseas funds pumped a record $26 billion into Indian equities last year

India is in a good position to outperform EMs in 2018: Sunil Singhania

We are optimistic on the road ahead for the markets: Global head, equities at Reliance Capital

Markets gain over 6% in October, log best month since March 2016

Across-the-board gains were seen in October, with the small- and mid-cap indices outperforming and all sectoral indices ending with gains

A trade-off is inevitable

Balance the need for lower prices with investments and creation of jobs

India the worst major market in September

Sensex down 3.7% in dollar terms amid economic growth concerns; in comparison, the MSCI EM index has lost 1% during the month

Fiscal road map, dollar to dictate market direction

Markets would be keeping an eye on the North Korea-US stand-off

'Frothy' assets spark concerns as cash floods Indian markets

The nation's equities and bonds have rallied even as economic growth sags to its weakest since 2014

Indices hit new high on global cues

BSE Sensex closed at 31,715 for the first time, a gain of 355 points or 1.13%

Indian markets catch Trump cold; Nifty falls 1%, Sensex closes 200 pts down

After record highs for consecutive sessions, the Indian stock market's benchmark indices closed lower on Thursday. While the S&P BSE Sensex lost 224 points or 0.7 per cent to close at 30,434, the Nifty 50 on the National Stock Exchange closed at 9,429, down 96 points or one per cent. Market participants said the fall was due to global cues. There was a sell-off in the US markets on Wednesday over concerns that newly elected President Donald Trump might even be impeached. The broader markets here saw a steeper fall, with the BSE midcap and smallcap indices losing a little more than two per cent each.The Nifty's volatility index, India VIX, jumped almost 11 per cent to close at 11.7850. It had recently hit all-time lows on buoyant investor sentiment. Thursday's rise shows investors are now worried about the global developments.The US news doesn't look positive from a markets perspective, say participants. And, could have a serious overhang on all global markets. Trump is under ...

There is strong investor interest for the right issuers: Asit Bhatia

Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Bhatia says he hopes to build on Q1's strong momentum

The Indian aam aadmi is rushing into stocks, spurring a rally and risks

Skip one Domino's pizza a month and put that money into a SIP is the new mantra

Policies to sustain India's market

The question is whether policies can be better framed to harness the market potential

How Indian markets appear from John Bogle's lens

John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard group, has a "formula" for calculating future expectations of index returns. Although an index investor is just looking to capture the market return, that return should beat risk free investments and this formula helps in asset allocation.Bogle adds up (historic) dividend yield + earnings growth +/- change in PE ratio. Say, dividend yield for an index is one per cent; the EPS growth for the last year is five per cent. Also say, the index PE has moved from PE 15 a year ago, to PE 20, that is a change of plus 5. (These numbers are random). The Bogle formula gives future expectations of (2 + 5 + 5) or 12 per cent. Bogle uses longer term data. He says, over the decades, the formula has been fairly accurate for the US markets (available data goes back to 1900).If you applied this formula to Indian markets now, the Nifty has a PE of 23. The Nifty was at around PE 18 in October 2011. So, it is up by about PE 5 in the past five years. The dividend yield has