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With the earnings season in full swing, as many as 1,625 companies will report their quarterly earnings this week.

“It is an ongoing discussion with the regulator. There have been some rumours that the license got rejected but there have been no official, unofficial, formal or informal indications from the regulator that they want to reject our license,” said Paytm CFO Madhur Deora.

In a post-budget interaction with captains of industry, Sitharaman exhorted India Inc to "quickly" step up capital expenditure to aid the virtuous cycle of investment gain traction and push growth.

Those synchronised moves showed how bitcoin has become far more of a mainstream asset, jolted by swings in risk-appetite.

Crude prices rose more than 15% in January alone, with the global benchmark price crossing $90 a barrel for the first time in more than seven years, as fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine grew.

Net interest margin – a key profitability measure – was at 3.13 per cent for the December quarter against 2.77 per cent over the same period last year. Net interest income (NII) -- the difference between interest earned and interest expended -- rose 14.4 per cent to Rs 8,552 crore.

A tight monetary policy also means higher interest rates translating into lower price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios of companies since their cost of capital and borrowing costs will go up.

According to Allan Mecham, the main objective of investors should be not to make money but to not lose money.

A turbulent week in markets ended with a surge in Treasury yields to their highest level in more than two years after surprisingly strong U.S. jobs data stoked expectations of a more hawkish Federal Reserve.

Although the budget’s short term influence on the broader markets has been diminishing, it does lay a foundation to determine which pockets of the economy are likely to benefit from a mid to long term perspective and offers an opportunity to position one’s portfolio accordingly.