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Results that will be out on January 30 include Larsen & Toubro, Bajaj Finserv, Tech Mahindra, Bharat Petroleum Corporation, Bajaj Holdings & Investment, GAIL, SRF, Punjab National Bank, REC, Laurus Labs, IIFL Finance, Trident, Exide Industries, Nippon Life India Asset Management, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, Welspun as well as Inox Leisure.

"We are hoping to reduce debt further by Rs 1,000 crore by end of this fiscal year to about Rs 7000 crore," Lodha said.The company plans to cut debt by Rs 500-800 crore every quarter."We will hope to be close to Rs 5,000 crore of net debt sometime by end of this calendar year," Lodha said.

For FPIs, 2022 was a subdued year in terms of flow and withdrawal from equities after a net investment in the preceding three years.According to the data with the depositories, FPIs have made a net withdrawal of Rs 17,023 crore this month (till January 27).

“The bear market has been underway for some time and I have said that earlier. It is going to be very selective. The auto index was up on Friday. I think a lot of the previous momentum names will continue to go down and we will have a new rung of leaders coming in. So tough times for the markets.”

The group has prepared a response of more than 100 pages and is also seeking legal advice on when to release it, one of the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private. While it won’t be before Jan. 31, the people did not specify when the reply would come.

While last year’s 20% hit to the S&P 500 was the worst since the financial crisis, it did little to chip away at the bounty laid up by buy-and-hold faithful. That’s evident in the S&P 500’s annualized return over the past 10 years, which stood at 11.7% even at last year’s trough. While down from 16% from a year earlier, the gain was still above the average of 10.6% over any decade since 1927, and beat all but four long-term returns at the end of 13 bear markets.

"Pharma is certainly one of the spaces that one should look at because that is one of the space which has not done anything at all. They have only gone down. I think one should definitely look into some of the frontline pharma stocks like Sun Pharma, Lupin, Cipla. I will also be a little more comfortable with something like Larsen & Toubro or Siemens or ABB."

FPO is a type of fundraising option for listed entities. It allows the company to issue fresh shares to new or existing shareholders of the company

"Banking sector gets very vulnerable if any news comes of even a possibility of some default which may or may not happen. This is one sector which is coming out of the NPA cycle and we do not want another wave to come and hit them. It is a highly vulnerable sector that has moved a lot in the last few quarters and had driven the markets to these levels. And now that sector is taking a knock."

That’s about 30k in premium or about 30% of the account size. It won’t even take a 2% gap down open for that option to get halved the next day. Before they even realize, 15k is wiped out and that’s 15% of trading capital