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Ashishkumar Chauhan, MD & CEO, National Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday asked the investors to avoid the pitfalls of high-risk derivatives or frequent trading in stock market.

“Indian equities were a clear outperformer compared to most global peers in CY23, more in mid and largecap space. Interestingly, this was amidst geopolitical tensions, rise in key policy rates across the globe, and volatile commodity prices,” said ICICIDirect,

​Shares of major cement producers outperformed the broader market this week on prospects of robust volume growth and improved profitability due to lower input costs in the second half of the current fiscal.

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During the Q2 earnings call, Vi’s chief executive Akshaya Moondra told analysts that the telco expected to conclude its discussions relating to (funding from potential) equity investors in this quarter (Q3FY24). He had added that Vi’s talks with banks had already happened and that the current focus is on tying up the equity investment, basis which the banks would process the telco’s requests for bank funding.

​Stock exchanges will be conducting a special live trading session on January 20 (Saturday), in a move to switch over to the Disaster Recovery (DR) site.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 8.47 points, or 0.02%, at the open to 37,701.63. The S&P 500 opened lower by 0.47 points, or 0.01%, at 4,782.88, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 4.06 points, or 0.03%, to 15,099.20 at the opening bell.

Economic growth has cooled and inflation has eased, fueling a massive cross-asset rally and allowing the Federal Reserve to pencil in more rate cuts for 2024. At the same time, the economy has shown little evidence that months of tighter monetary policy are spawning a severe downturn.