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In India, are in for trouble or do we actually have an opportunity at hand? Let me answer that question with a line of Paulo Coelho’s saintly character in The Alchemist, who often says omens are there written all around us and the only thing is we need to correctly read into them.

Realty stocks were in the spotlight last week, along with hotels and theatres. Analysts believe next week could belong to telecom, banks, IT, fertilizers and real estate names.

It is not the question of if, but when the Nifty50 index will hit the 18,000 mark. Overall, analysts are confident that the market will continue to gain in the medium term. However, a profit booking in the short term may delay the party for investors.

Read more on realty space, valuation outlook on cyclicals, excess liquidity risks and much more in this week’s edition of ‘Long & Short of Markets’.

One method of managing volatility risk is following hold-till-maturity (HTM). This concept can be practised by investing directly in bonds. On maturity of the bond, money flows back to the investor and returns are not dependent on market conditions at that point in time. In mutual funds, fixed maturity plans (FMPs) work on this principle. If it is a three-year FMP, on maturity, all the bonds in the portfolio mature and there is no market/volatility risk.

Giving the lenders the option to decide which place requires banking presence through a brick-and-mortar model and where a step-down presence would help, Sitharaman made it clear that she is not against digitalisation and efforts.

In this edition of Tweet Buster, we look beyond the market noise to help you navigate market uncertainty and help decision-making.

The process of normalization of returns to lower levels has started happening. The corrections seen in midcaps and smallcaps were not very deep but the corrections in some of the individual scrips have been quite substantial.

A large number of investors have been opening Demat accounts and investing in secondary markets, and filing applications for IPO, data from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)suggests the number of new Demat accounts being opened between April 2020 and January 2021 was around 10.7 million.

It is clearly evident that the inherent nature of the Indian Rupee has been to depreciate against the dollar with intermittent corrections and will continue to be so. The major reason for this is the age-old fact that a high inflation rate will continue to reduce the value of any currency; Indian inflation rates like most emerging market economies have been higher than that of the US.