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At risk is a pattern of bullishness that has helped fuel the market’s doubling since March 2020: Stocks have risen every time results were being reported, a vote of confidence in profit margins. Now their uncanny durability faces its greatest threat at a time of increasing costs for companies.

"Trading by any insider during UPSI period and during window closure period is itself against the legislative/regulatory framework set-up under SEBI PIT Regulations, 2015," Sebi said.

Should you bet on growth stocks or value stocks? Should you buy stocks only after they fall, because they’re available at a cheaper price? Or should you buy even rallying stocks with the hope and expectation that they’ll rise more? These are common questions that haunt every investor in the market day in and day out.

If you follow a systematic, data-oriented, disciplined approach to investing, you can reap far better and longer-lasting rewards than someone who is buying and selling on Twitter tips.

Certain sectors perform better than others. So if the market is heading higher, investors should buy stocks in the sectors that are performing best. There are always some secular themes that will outperform broader indices irrespective of market conditions.

The "negative list" details sectors and industries that are off-limits to both Chinese and foreign investors.

After more than a year of futility, short sellers just scored their fifth straight week of positive returns, their best run since 2018. In another development that has portended trouble in the past, individual stocks have started moving around in unison, a sign of shared anxiety that has pushed realized correlations to the highest in a year. At the index level, swings in the S&P 500 topped 1% for six straight sessions through Thursday, the longest run of volatility in six months.

The world’s largest digital asset, overcoming a slew of potentially negative factors that had dogged it earlier this year, is up about 10% over the past five sessions. That gain puts it on track for its best week since the start of August and pads its year-to-date advance to 87%. It rose about 0.6% to $54,526 as of 2:26 p.m. in New York.

The first pill to treat Covid-19 is on its way and vaccine producers are rolling out booster shots in wealthy countries. For investors, the next stage of the pandemic means a tougher landscape for stockpicking. Nineteen months into the pandemic, a successful rollout of a Covid-19 pill could quicken and broaden the world’s recovery, opening up a plethora of investment opportunities in stock markets.

In Delhi, the petrol price was hiked by 30 paise per litre, taking it to Rs 104.23.