Dipan Mehta, Director, Elixir Equities, says the question that everybody on the Street will ask the IT company is how big is this AI opportunity. Is it for real? Is it going to translate into double-digit growth rates for the next four to five years for IT companies? If we get a positive response over … Read more
Just as enthusiasm over artificial intelligence and China’s stimulus fades, a familiar weakness has come back to haunt equity investors in emerging markets: sinking corporate profits. With 96% of companies in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index done with their quarterly results, the earnings season is almost over. And the picture isn’t pretty — Almost half … Read more
U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday as investors digested minutes of the Federal Reserve‘s most recent meeting but Nvidia‘s shares rose about 6% after the close on the semiconductor bellwether’s stronger-than-expected revenue forecast. The news also drove gains in other chipmakers. Investors had focused on whether Nvidia‘s first-quarter results could meet sky-high expectations and whether the … Read more
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended higher on Wednesday, stretching its winning streak to six straight sessions and closing above 39,000 points for the first time in five weeks, as investors kept betting on supportive U.S. monetary policy. The other Wall Street benchmarks cooled a touch as momentum stalled and U.S. Treasury yields rose on … Read more
Dipan Mehta, Director, Elixir Equities, says “I am not nibbling anywhere. I am just waiting patiently, wherever numbers are not up to expectations, trim a few holdings over there and I seriously expect that this correction could be as deep as 10-12% on the Nifty and the Sensex, who knows? We may even test the … Read more
MUMBAI: Benchmark indices snapped two-week winning streak and net lost over 1% in the week-ended October 20. The rising US bond yields, firm crude oil prices, and weak earnings from IT majors were some of the factors that weighed on the market sentiment. The coming truncated week is likely to bring in volatility as a … Read more
There are a host of corporate actions scheduled for this week. L&T, Crisil, Coforge, Maruti Suzuki and Kotak Mahindra Bank will trade ex-dividend, while Piramal Pharma‘s rights issue’s ex-date is fixed this week. The ex-dividend date is when the price of the equity shares of a company gets adjusted for the dividend payout. It is … Read more
ET is providing these research reports as a complimentary offering to all ETPrime users. Click here to know more. Synopsis In the last one month as more and corners of Dalal street come under control of bulls, stocks from different sectors have seen an improvement in their analyst scores. The selected stocks depict a strong … Read more
It is better not to be very bullish on IT stocks at this stage because there is uncertainty and delay in decision making. US financials are a big segment for many of these companies and they are suffering. It is tough to build a bull case although the stocks have underperformed significantly, says Sandip Sabharwal, … Read more
In a surprise to many, US corporate earnings have been better than expected amid the recession buzz in the world’s largest economy. Majority of the companies have remained resilient in the adverse macroeconomic environment. More than half of US companies have announced their June quarter earnings so far and analysts reckon that three-fourth of them … Read more