Foreign portfolio investors have offloaded shares worth 170.83 billion rupees ($2.05 billion) in just seven sessions in May, the highest since January.
The NSE Nifty 50 index lost 1.34% to 19,281.75. The S&P BSE Sensex fell 1.26% to 64,571.88, biggest single-day loss since July 1, beginning a truncated week on a lackluster note.
It took over 31 years for Sensex to traverse from 1,000 points to the historic 60,000 level. The benchmark was at 1,000 points back in 1990 and it touched the 30,000 mark in 2015.
UBS predicts Nifty 50 Index will fall to 15,500 by June end 2022. Current surge has Nifty trading at 21.3 times estimated 12-month earnings, much higher than its 5-yr average of 18 times.
IndusInd Bank was the top loser in the Sensex pack, tanking around 8 per cent, followed by SBI, Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Auto. Infosys was the sole gainer.
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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