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Sunday, August 31, 2025
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Topic: Stock markets

Trump tariffs led to a brokerage firm seeing 400% more investments in US stocks. What’s the rush about

A relatively newer player in Indian brokerage space, Gurugram-based INDmoney is the 11th largest firm in the country & the fastest growing, according to NSE.

Markets rally as Trump secures second term, Bitcoin soars to record high

Trump's victory hit long-dated Treasuries and revived the 'Trump trade,' with yields rising on tariff hike expectations, a higher deficit, inflation, and limited Fed rate cuts.

‘Buying the dips’ & faster recoveries. Why this market rally is not like mid-2000s’ ‘mother of bull runs’

The current market rally, which has seen Sensex more than triple since COVID crash, did see some corrections. Unlike in the previous bull run, these dips have been shallow & short-lived.

Stock market frauds booming in India. How kingpins holed up in Cambodia & Dubai bait & scam investors

Scams are well oiled with swindlers manipulating & looting victims for months. Probe mostly hit dead end as those arrested are brokers & mule account holders, say cops.

71% of intraday traders incur losses, finds SEBI report. Impact higher among young, small traders

Number of intraday traders rose 4.6 times from FY19 to FY23, the report says. Though loss-makers increased, average loss fell drastically to Rs 5,371 in FY23 from Rs 20,701 in FY19.

‘Harbinger of instability’, losses to investors — Economic Survey warns about stock market overvaluation

Economic Survey 2023-24, tabled in Parliament Monday, says derivatives investors could see greater losses during market crashes, inducing them to stay away and hurting the economy.

Higher profits, lower debt, ‘Modi stocks’ effect — Adani market cap zooms past pre-Hindenburg levels

Adani Group stocks rose at an average of 7.8% Monday, while Sensex rose 3.4%. The group has recovered all losses in value since the Hindenburg report came out in January 2023.

Amit Shah, wife invested nearly 60% of their wealth in stock markets — these are their big bets

ThePrint analysed data from the affidavit Shah filed with EC. Apart from the equity market, Shah and his wife also have investments in small savings schemes, gold, and mutual funds.

Hindenburg effect? Adani stocks plunge after controversial report’s release

While Adani Transmission’s stocks were worst hit, none of the group's seven listed companies escaped impact, with their stock prices falling between 10% & 27%.

LIC shares slump in market debut after record Rs 205.6 billion India IPO

The shares fell as much as 9.4% to Rs 860 versus their IPO price of 949, before paring about half of the losses. LIC is the fourth-largest deal among global IPOs priced this year.

On Camera

From Vedanta, India turned to Nehruvian socialism and buried its liberal roots: Sharad Joshi

An Indian Hitler will have to be exceptionally lucky to survive for any length of time. This much hope ought to be enough for seekers of liberty and equality, wrote Sharad Anantrao Joshi, president of Swatantra Bharat Paksh party, in 1995.

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Ahead of SCO meet, Russia & China stage maiden joint submarine patrol in Sea of Japan, East China Sea

Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.