Equity market indices witnessed the first weekly decline in 3 weeks. Sensex declined 0.6% for the week to close at 17460 against the last week’s close of 17574.
After last Friday’s decline, the week opened on a positive note but for the week hovered in a range. However bearish sentiments on the last two days took [...]
The month of July can cause real jitters for the Indian stock market and the party could end. Most of the top economists and market gurus have started saying that the year 2010 could be a mixture of two halves, the first half ending on a positive note and the second half leading to a [...]
Moved by strong IIP numbers last week, Sensex continued its upward journey, rising 273 points on the first day of the week. Equity markets almost ignored the high inflation number.
The buoyancy continued for the week and markets touched a high of 17,616 on Thursday, its highest since April 27. This was the 7th consecutive day of [...]
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In Economics the term stagflation refers to a situation where the inflation rate is rising along with a fall in output levels.
Many eminent economists believe that In China, this could be a possible situation shaping up. Some of the most recent facts that highlight the same are:
On Friday the Chinese government released the figures for [...]
After 2 consecutive weeks of gains, equity markets ended this week slightly below the last week’s level, loosing 0.3% or 52 points on Sensex to close at 17064.95.
First two days of the week saw markets plunging 500 points to a weekly low of 16617 due to concerns of deepening Eurozone crisis. But thereafter, Wednesday onwards, markets [...]
This Could Evaporate Liquidity From Markets…
Yesterday the European Central Bank (ECB) announced the key rates and as the streets expected, they were unchanged.
There was no positive out of the press conference from Trichet, the only thing he did was subtly pleading to the world that “EURO is a stable currency’ and reiterated again the same things that [...]
May 30, 2010 - 10:23 pm
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Helped by the 1.2% gain on Friday, equity markets posted 2.5% gain this week to close at 16863.06. This is the highest monthly gain since March 6.
Markets started the week on a bearish note and on Tuesday fell about 2.7% under the concerns of widening European Debt crisis and possible military actions between North Korea [...]
May 3, 2010 - 8:51 am
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Dear readers, if you will remember we used to post monthly market review till some time back. Modifying that a bit, we have come out with the weekly version of the update covering equity, currency, gilts, crude oil and a brief note on China interest rate move.
Equity markets
Sensex slid 135 points or 0.7% for the [...]
Well some say that the Indian equity markets are all set to become mother of all the bull markets and from here there is no looking back. While others say that we are currently in a kind of over bought zone and a correction of at least 200-300 points in the Nifty index is definitely warranted.
While, what [...]
