Market Updates - Angel One

Some political lessons from the state election outcomes… As we go to press, the final results of the various state elections are still some time away. However, the broad trends are quite clear, at least in the key states of Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. There is no denying the fact that the ruling BJP has …

The state elections are gone. While the BJP has clearly swept Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, it was the Congress that made hay in Punjab. The final shape of the government in Manipur and Goa will take some time, but the Congress has at least managed to redeem itself in both these places. But one thing …

To begin with, here is a broadly disclaimer. This is a summary of all exit polls announced on March 09th in the five states that are expecting the results of assembly elections on March 11th. Like any sample survey, these exit polls also have their shortcomings. Firstly, the sample is assumed to represent the entire …

When the US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets on March 14-15, it will be a big question on whether they will look to another rate hike. Interestingly, the markets seem to be almost betting with certainty about a rate hike on March 15th. In fact, the probability of a rate hike, as implied by …

In the Berkshire Hathaway report to its shareholders, there was one comment on airline stocks from Warren Buffett that attracted a lot of attention. Buffett commented that “After a century of mistakes and bad operating performance, aviation stocks may be finally coming into their own”. Coming from an aviation sceptic like Warren Buffett, this was …

There almost seems to be a negative correlation between the aggression shown by Reliance Jio and the price performance of other telecom stocks. When the free telecom offer was first launched by Reliance Jio on September 05th, listed telecom stocks like Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and RCOM lost nearly Rs.22,500 crore in market cap. The …

Mr. Ajay Tyagi, who took over as SEBI chairman on March 01st 2017 surely has a tough act to follow. His predecessor, Mr. U K Sinha, managed a very tough transition of the capital market regulator during his 6-year tenure. Additionally, Mr. Sinha also oversaw the integration of Forward Markets Commission (FMC) into SEBI and …

As is the normal practice, the Monetary Policy Committee published its minutes of the discussion leading to the Monetary Policy on 08th February. It may be recollected that in the Feb 08th policy, the MPC had chosen to maintain status quo on rates. This was contrary to market expectations as the equity and bond markets …

The markets have been rife with expectations of ONGC taking a stake in HPCL eventually culminating in a full-fledged merger of ONGC and HPCL. In his Budget speech, Arun Jaitley had spoken at length about creating an oil behemoth which could take on the global oil giants in terms of size and influence. So how …

The Q3 estimates for GDP were, probably, the most awaited statistics in the last few months. That is hardly surprising! The Q3 GDP growth refers to the Oct-Dec 2016 period when the Indian economy had to put up with the pain of the demonetization exercise. Demonetization had created a liquidity crunch across most urban and …