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ITC is trading with 9 percent gains in the last one month whereas Equitas Small Finance has gained 11 per cent in just one week. Similarly, Ashok Leyland has gained 8 per cent in the same period.

Thanks to the market-wide selling, most managed portfolios - be it mutual funds, PMSes or your self-managed portfolio, sustained losses. However, there were some funds that showed resilience and fell much less than others.

Major metaverse tokens such as Decentraland (MANA), The Sandbox (SAND), Enjin Coin (ENJ) and Stacks (STX) have tumbled between 55 and 75 per cent from their recent peaks of one year.

“In terms of the impact of the war and the war-like conditions on India’s overall GDP would be a bit more muted than what it would have been in the earlier years because the government’s policies have been very effective. There are good things happening for us to feel relatively comfortable though this should not give way to complacency induced inflation.”

The index seems to have sent signs of upside breakout after closing above the range of 16,700-800, and the same will be confirmed on a move above 17,000 level, said analysts.

At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee opened at 76.63 against the American dollar. It regained some lost ground during the session but remained in the negative territory as investors turned towards safe-haven assets.

“Our focus sectors now would be IT, pharma as well as financials. We have been more bullish on non-fund based financials than fund based financials. But from here on, we feel even the fund-based financials can do well. So big corporate banks and select NBFCs can do well and can pass on the upcoming interest rate hikes from these levels.”

The Nifty Realty index was trading 1.82 per cent down at 422.35.

Investor wealth, reflected in the total m-cap of BSE-listed firms, jumped by over Rs 13 lakh crore in the last one week, in tandem with a sharp recovery in Indian equities. Both Sensex and Nifty advanced 6.9% and 6.35% in the last five sessions.

Auto stocks climbed 4.1% to lead gains among sectors. Volkswagen AG surged 6.6% as higher prices and a more favourable product mix boosted its operating profit.