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“Friday was a good day and over the next few days, any investor with a time horizon of one year and above can go and buy into these stocks because these companies are doing well and will continue to do well. The banks clearly stand out in that sense because they are down pretty sharply today. "

"If you have a global portfolio and your portfolio starts going up, then your allocation to India as a percentage will fall and there is no doubt in the world that India is going to grow, the debates are not on growth, it is on issues that seem to be more temporary in nature."

If you are an investor, go ahead and deploy 40-50% of the cash and the rest post Budget. As a trader, you cannot take a lot of trading positions because you do not want to be on a gap up or a gap down without a view and an event is not something you have a view on because if you are trading technical, you are trading momentum and as of now the momentum is on the downside.

If the index provider intends to exclude the stocks and a few of the names continue to trade at lower circuits with no liquidity, then MSCI can postpone their exclusion until there is enough liquidity visible on the counter.

Bankers on the deal were considering extending the sale or cutting the issue price after shares of Adani plunged following a report from a U.S. short seller, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Saturday.

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According to the American research firm, 4 of the group companies – Adani Green Energy, Adani Total Gas, Adani Transmission, and Adani Enterprises have negative free cash flows.

Nifty has violated the 20-Week MA on the weekly charts and also the 100-DMA. In the process, the index has dragged its resistance points lower. The coming week has strong resistance at 17,750 and 17,860 levels. Supports come in at 17,400 and 17,250 levels.

We expect the fiscal deficit to consolidate to 5.8% of GDP in FY24. Gross tax revenue growth is likely to moderate ~7% in FY24 (vs. estimated 11% in FY23). While direct tax and GST buoyancy could stay healthy in FY24 and RBI dividend could improve, we could see moderation in other components of indirect taxes, marginally lower PSU dividend and spectrum-related telecom receipts. The Disinvestment pipeline has also cooled off after the LIC stake sale.

The main reason behind this phenomenon is the uncertainty regarding the Budget. Investors tend to tread lightly before the event. Profit booking by the market participants causes the prices to plunge a week before the Budget, discounting all the fears that investors have.