RBI curbs show effect; personal loan growth moderates in Q3

RBI curbs show effect; personal loan growth moderates in Q3

Kolkata: Personal loan growth moderated in the quarter to December following regulatory cautioning over possible overheating. The annual growth print for the personal loan segment was recorded at 13.7% at the end of December 2024 from 15.2% at the end of September, Reserve Bank of India’s quarterly data showed. Total bank credit growth also decelerated … Read more

FPI Focus: Financials, IT, and real estate dominate December inflows

FPI Focus: Financials, IT, and real estate dominate December inflows

Nearly 83% of foreign portfolio investor (FPI) flows in the first fortnight of December were concentrated in three sectors – financial services, IT, and real estate. Overseas investors poured ₹7,424 crore into financial services, ₹6,754 crore into IT, and ₹4,689 crore into real estate stocks in this period. These investors sold ₹5,337 crore worth of … Read more

New funds in focus: Franklin India Long Duration Fund, Edelweiss’s AAA Financial Services Index Fund; check details

New funds in focus: Franklin India Long Duration Fund, Edelweiss’s AAA Financial Services Index Fund; check details

NFO alert: Franklin Templeton India has introduced the Franklin India Long Duration Fund (FILDrF), a debt fund that caters to long-term investments. This open-ended fund is suitable for investors with a time horizon exceeding three years and will mainly invest in government bonds, corporate bonds, as well as money market instruments such as treasury bills … Read more

Should investors bet on ICICI Bank stock? Vinay Rajani answers

Should investors bet on ICICI Bank stock? Vinay Rajani answers

“It is not for the intraday or one or two-days trade, but positionally if we were to see, they are likely to do well in the coming times and overall capital market theme is likely to do well from here,” says Vinay Rajani, HDFC Securities.Well, the market is very sideways. The action is really in … Read more

UPI Circle: What is the new feature and how will it work for multiple users? Check top 5 points

UPI Circle: What is the new feature and how will it work for multiple users? Check top 5 points

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has yet again added a new feature to the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) platform. The new feature, UPI Circle-Delegate Payments, will help primary holders of UPI accounts to delegate transaction rights to secondary users. The main goal is to create a common platform that simplifies and enhances transactions … Read more

Quant MF irregularities: Should investors stop their SIPs and exit funds? Here’s what experts say

Quant MF irregularities: Should investors stop their SIPs and exit funds? Here’s what experts say

Quant Mutual Fund’s recent probe by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is making its investors a bit edgy.  Quant Mutual Fund, a high-growth asset management company (AMC), is one of the top fund managers with Rs 93,000 crore of assets. It was probed for its alleged front-running activity. Front-running is when an … Read more

FIIs sold stocks worth more than Rs 29,000 crore from 8 sectors in Feb. Take a look – ​Rushing Out

FIIs sold stocks worth more than Rs 29,000 crore from 8 sectors in Feb. Take a look – ​Rushing Out

Bajaj Auto. Share Price 8605.80 03:59 PM | 06 Mar 2024 254.05(3.05%) Kotak Mahindra Bank. Share Price 1759.75 03:59 PM | 06 Mar 2024 44.05(2.57%) Axis Bank. Share Price 1125.00 03:59 PM | 06 Mar 2024 24.21(2.20%) Bharti Airtel. Share Price 1193.70 03:59 PM | 06 Mar 2024 24.80(2.13%) SBI Life Insurance Company. Share Price … Read more

Why Abhay Agarwal prefers Dixon & Amber to Voltas or Blue Star

Why Abhay Agarwal prefers Dixon & Amber to Voltas or Blue Star

Abhay Agarwal, Founder & Fund Manager, Piper Serica, says “outsourced manufacturing as a concept is here to stay and it will reward large players. While there is nothing wrong with branded players like Voltas or Blue Star, we would like to back very efficient, large and getting larger manufacturers like Dixon and Amber purely for … Read more

8 Financial Services stocks hit 52-week high, deliver up to 25% gains in a month – New Highs!

8 Financial Services stocks hit 52-week high, deliver up to 25% gains in a month – New Highs!

Hindalco Industries. Share Price 492.65 03:59 PM | 29 Sep 2023 25.80(5.52%) NTPC. Share Price 245.55 03:59 PM | 29 Sep 2023 8.50(3.58%) Hero MotoCorp. Share Price 3057.25 03:59 PM | 29 Sep 2023 87.25(2.93%) Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories. Share Price 5587.00 03:55 PM | 29 Sep 2023 157.90(2.90%) Divi’s Laboratories. Share Price 3765.15 03:57 PM … Read more

Banking and Financial Services players likely vanguards of next surge

Banking and Financial Services players likely vanguards of next surge

Mumbai: In the event of substantial selling pressure, especially in midcap and smallcap stocks, one can contemplate buying large-cap banking or finance stocks, which could minimize downside risks, according to analysts. Both the Nifty Bank and Nifty Financial Services indices have underperformed the broader Nifty index in six months. Stocks such as HDFC Bank, Kotak … Read more