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Robert Kiyosaki, known for predicting financial collapses since the early 2000s, continues to urge investors to shift towards gold, silver, and Bitcoin. Last month, he warned of the “biggest stock market crash in history” by February 2025, expecting a major sell-off in equities and bonds. A critic of fiat currencies, he calls Bitcoin “people’s money” and gold and silver “God’s money,” viewing them as safeguards against market instability.

L&T Finance and Mahindra Finance are facing challenges in the NBFC sector. L&T Finance s focus on retail and riskier segments is problematic, while Mahindra Finance struggles with diversification. Different NBFCs show varying performance, with housing finance companies performing steadily. The NBFC sector faces competitive dynamics, particularly in the gold loan and microfinance segments, with regulatory changes impacting the industry.

India is not a major exporter of metals to the US, but any global price shift would surely impact the domestic pricing also. If Chinese producers or the European Union producers divert supplies to other nations, including India, we may see a glut with respect to the oversupply.

​Coming to the biggest uncertainty, you named it in the very beginning, you said that nothing came from US today, Donald Trump did not announce any new tariffs or policies and stuff like that, so that is the biggest caveat in the whole story.

The Sensex plunged 2,300 points in February as FIIs withdrew Rs 23,000 crore, driven by Trump’s tariff threats and a Hang Seng rally. Smallcaps remain vulnerable, but experts see signs of a bottom.

Emerging markets commentator Geoff Dennis believes a strengthening dollar won t heavily impact the rupee and suggests rebuilding positions in India. He remains cautious about emerging markets in general, particularly China, which he views skeptically due to economic pressures. The article highlights the influence of tariffs and bond yields on market performance.

The Nifty Auto index was trading 2.65 per cent down at 21490.1.

​We are talking about MSCI India over MSCI World. Today that premium is down to some 3-4%. So, it is obvious that things have really turned around in the terms of the interest that India generates globally and which is obvious from the FIIs selling, and also the fact that the rupee has been under pressure for a while, but yes.

Shares in Nissan surged 11 percent Friday after a report said a high-level Japanese group including a former prime minister planned to ask US electric vehicle giant Tesla to invest in the automaker. Nissan declined to comment.