The yen rallied for a fourth day running on Thursday, reaching a a six-week high, as traders ditched their long-running bets against the currency and a plunge in global stocks drove investors towards traditionally safe assets.

Retail traders were responsible for 18.3% of the total options activity in June, a record, the banks strategists led by Bram Kaplan wrote Friday in a note to clients on Friday. More than 60% of their orders were for contracts expiring a week out or less, with technology options being of the highest demand among single-stock trades.

After the inclusion in the JP Morgan global bond index, in the short term. we need to prepare for volatility. But in the long term, the collateral and the second-round benefits are huge, says Abheek Barua. He expects this to lead to an improvement in the fixed-income ecosystem, which unfortunately has not taken off that well

A look at some of the latest stock recommendations by analysts. These stocks are expected to return between 15% and 31% as per analysts price targets.

ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund was the single largest buyer at 1,001 crore, followed by Morgan Stanley Asia Singapore PTE and Citigroup Global Markets Mauritius fund. Shares of HCL Technologies closed 0.42% up on NSE at 1,461 Friday.

Indian bonds debuted in JP Morgan's GBI-EM global index suite on Friday, with the country expected to reach a maximum weight of 10% in the GBI-EM Global Diversified Index over a 10-month period. JP Morgan's analysts expect foreign investment worth $20-25 billion to flow to the local bond market from the move.

The annual growth rate of India's coal imports declined to 2.49% in the past decade, down from 21.48% in the previous decade, reflecting progress towards energy self-reliance. The share of imported coal also decreased, with a compound annual growth rate of -2.29%. India aims to optimize its indigenous coal resources and leverage technology.

Risk-adjusted return offers a comprehensive view of a mutual fund's performance by measuring the return earned per unit of risk taken. Currently, regulations do not require disclosure of RAR alongside standard returns for mutual funds.

In May 2024, the Reserve Bank of India reported a marginal decline in weighted average lending rates on fresh loans and deposits by 16 and one basis points, respectively. The WALR on fresh rupee loans fell to 9.39%, while the WADTDR on fresh term deposits dropped to 6.47%.

Stanley Lifestyles, a luxury furniture maker, focuses on major metros and aims to double business by localizing raw material production through European joint ventures, reducing import dependency.

Private sector banks, particularly HDFC Bank, are poised for growth and profitability. Indian bond inclusion may impact liquidity and interest rates, benefiting the banking sector. Public banks face challenges in profitability and growth compared to private counterparts. Regulatory actions in the NBFC sector may favor established players like Muthoot, says Pranav Gundlapalle.

Friday is packed with risk events for markets after a relatively subdued rest of the week, with U.S. Democratic President Joe Biden and his Republican rival Donald Trump set to take the stage at 0100 GMT for their first debate of the year ahead of November's U.S. presidential elections.

The criteria for exit would apply to only those stocks which have completed at least six months from the month of entry into the derivative segment. while for existing stocks in the derivatives segment, the exit criteria on the basis of performance would be applicable three months after the date of issuance of circular, Sebi said.

The widening gap in valuations between the mid-cap as well as the small cap pack and the largecap pack means that this is a wonderful opportunity to rotate it and bring down the average one-year forward PE of the portfolio by buying good quality, solid, robust largecaps, says Sunil Subramaniam.

NSE's Nifty rose 147.5 points, or 0.62%, to close at 23,868.8 and hit a record of 23,889.90 during the day. BSE's Sensex rose 620.73 points, or 0.8%, to end at 78,674.25, having touched an intraday high of 78,759.40.

Separately, ICICI Bank is likely to carry out a sale of infrastructure bonds on June 28, with the private lender looking to raise up to 3,000 crore through 10-year securities, debt capital market sources said. SBI's infrastructure bonds, which mature in 15 years, bear a coupon - or rate of interest to be paid to investors - of 7.36%.

Ecom Express has initiated the process for the public issue, which includes both a fresh issue and an offer for sale from the existing investors. The company is likely to file its draft red herring prospectus soon, said one of the people cited above.

Vedanta Group, in a statement, said that Finsider International Company, a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources, accepted a proposal from one of its banks Tuesday evening to sell 2.6% shares holding in Vedanta Ltd to a group of reputed institutional investors.

According to the term sheet issued by the banker IIFL, FIH Mauritius Investments, an entity belonging to Fairfax Group is expected to sell 1.68 crore shares in the Kerala-based bank at a floor price of 352.4 per share. The floor price represents a 1% discount to Wednesday's closing price of 355.95.

JP Morgan will include 27 fully accessible Indian government bonds in its GBI-EM global index suite starting June 28, allowing global investors to deploy funds in these bonds.

The evolving financial landscape in India, characterized by the Hyundai India IPO and the rise in private company IPOs, presents significant opportunities for financial institutions like Nomura and Jefferies Financial Group to capitalize on the flourishing market and drive investment banking fees to new heights.

Clearly within the residential, we are seeing luxury doing exceptionally well, affordable unfortunately not doing as well and there is not that much supply that is coming in. But cities like MMR, Mumbai, Bangalore, NCR really leading the pack.

Prior to its listing, GEM Enviro Management shares were trading with a Grey Market Premium (GMP) of Rs 70 in the unlisted market. The IPO, comprising entirely of a fresh equity issue of 59.9 lakh shares, was oversubscribed by over 200 times at closure, primarily fueled by robust interest from non-institutional investors. Proceeds from the public offer will be allocated towards funding working capital requirements and general corporate purposes.

The Mumbai real estate sector, particularly in the greater MMR region like Thane, has thrived in the past two years, outpacing traditional growth markets. Companies like Raymond, Oberoi Realty, and Godrej, with investments in this area, are poised for strong performance amidst upcoming metro projects.

The positive trends in global markets, favourable domestic economic data, and optimism regarding corporate earnings growth have further bolstered market sentiment.

We have a different profile spread across clients. There are real money clients who may be investing in India off-benchmark. Then there will be the passive index trackers who will be the regular ones coming each month and we may see some large allocations come in intermittently. So, around $2-3 billion per month is what we expect, Parul Mittal Sinha, head - financial markets, India & co-head, macro trading, ASA, Standard Chartered Bank, told ET.

Agarwal has been seeking to slash the group's debt burden. London-listed Vedanta Resources reduced its net debt to $6 billion in FY24 from $9.7 billion in FY22. The company aims to cut it to $3 billion over the next three years. Vedanta Resources has long-term debt maturities of $900 million in FY25 and another $900 million in FY26.

Once you have chosen a mutual fund scheme to buy, the next step is to proceed to buy these units and execute your transaction. There are a number of ways to buy mutual funds, be it the fund house websites, RTA (registrar and transfer agent) websites, third-party platforms and stock brokers.

Global development institution International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has invested over Rs 650 crore in K Raheja Corp-backed Mindspace Business Parks REIT through an issue of sustainability-linked bonds.

There are no such things as poor people. They are poor places. Say two brothers grew up in Moradabad. One of them stays back in Moradabad and another went off to Dubai. After five years, one person will be earning a lot more than the other. Why does this happen? It is because places matter, says Sanjeev Sanyal

Ramani Dathi says there is no major uptick as far as demand for IT pros is concerned. There are a few set of clients, especially the GCCs and to some extent, who are able to maintain the current run rate of revenues and headcounts for Teamlease, but to show a massive growth or a double-digit growth, the IT services hiring has to be back on track.

A part of Muthoot Pappachan Group, the company provides micro loans to women with a focus on rural areas. It had 1,508 branches in 353 districts across 18 states of India as of March 2024. Its AUM grew by 32.4% year-on-year to 12,193.5 crore in FY24.

As the question of stretched valuations continues to swirl through Dalal Street, promoters seem to be firmly on course toward breaking the hitherto all-time calendar-year stock dilution record - set in the 2020 Covid era. So far in 2024, both domestic and overseas promoters have sold shares worth nearly 65,000 crore - not far from the 2020 high watermark of 78,500 crore.

In its June 8 consultation paper, Sebi had sought feedback from market participants for its plan to revise the eligibility criteria for stocks to be a part of the futures and options (F&O) segment. The regulator wants stocks that are part of the derivatives market to be more liquid and traded by a wide set of market participants to prevent manipulation and lower risks to the system.

Nifty maintains positive momentum, aiming for the 23,650-23,700 range with immediate support at 23,350, according to HDFC Securities' Nagaraj Shetti.

Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan has cautioned investors against fake videos of him circulating on social media, giving investment tips, especially on individual stocks.

The smaller pharma companies I find it tough to evaluate, so many of them can potentially do well but I do not have the bandwidth to go molecule by molecule and evaluate those companies. But I think Sun Pharma is a decent business model, so we are just holding it for the long term.

According to bulk deal data from BSE, Olympus Capital Asia Investments sold 4.50 crore shares, equivalent to a 9% stake in Aster DM Healthcare, in two tranches. The shares were sold within the price range of Rs 340 to Rs 340.13 each, totalling Rs 1,530.08 crore.

But the real big story today in India, not only for two-wheelers but for across products and categories is the game of premiumisation. The young aspirational India is very much looking to upgrade themselves to premium products.

Bandhan Bank CFO says the NPA portfolio has been reduced from almost Rs 8,700 crore to about Rs 4,700 crore. That particular clean-up exercise took place in March which took care of a large part of the book that was prior to the year FY2022 and earlier and brought gross NPA levels down to almost 3.8%. We still have further journey to climb on that particular front.

Indian IT stocks surged following positive results from Accenture, with Persistent Systems leading the gains. Analysts expect a strong demand environment to drive healthy earnings growth.

The SME IPO of Medicamen Organics commenced its subscription on Friday and is scheduled to conclude on June 24. The company intends to raise approximately Rs 10.54 crore through this offering. Once successfully subscribed, the shares will be listed on the BSE SME platform.

Many of these stocks have rallied multi-fold. In capital goods, I know of companies that I hold, which are up like five-six times in the last one odd year. Now, to say that they still have a lot of steam left and most of the upsides are ahead of us, I do not think that would be a prudent way to approach this space.

The Burmans, who founded and control consumer goods conglomerate Dabur India, raised its stake in Religare to nearly 25% in September last year, triggering the so-called open offer requirement that allows them to buy more shares from public shareholders.

The BoE was widely forecast to keep its cost of borrowing at 5.25 percent, a 16-year high, following a regular monetary policy meeting.

Nine months after JP Morgan announced the inclusion of Indian government debt in its emerging markets index, foreign portfolio investors have increased their ownership of sovereign bonds by over $10 billion. The influx of funds is expected to continue as India's index weightage grows.

Indian stock markets hit a milestone with record block deals worth 23,000 crore, driven by Vodafone Group's stake sale in Indus Towers.

Nifty placed at the highs, but thats not any confirmation of any significant reversal pattern building at the highs. Again, weakness below 23,300 levels could be considered as a short-term top reversal pattern.

When we actually look at the Strike Valuation Charts that we have on our platform, it shows the stock at minus two standard deviations, so that is an extreme in terms of the long-term valuation graph and when you are at that kind of level, definitely at some point of time interest had to get generated and you are starting to see that, now that is only one item and slowly you are seeing the momentum build up in the other private banks as well.