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An over 21% fall in Adani Ports shares in the last two trading days of the week gone by resulted in over Rs 3,000 crore of losses for LIC. In Adani Enterprises, the flagship company of the group, LIC incurred a loss of close to Rs 3,300 crore due to a 20% fall in the share price on Wednesday and Friday. Besides these two companies, the country’s largest life insurer holds significant stake in Adani Total Gas, ACC and Ambuja Cements.

"Gold is no longer playing the role of a safe haven during economic crises (as it should have during the Ukraine-Russia War, but did not), nor is it serving as an effective inflation hedge. This is because of trading in gold. Conceptually, depreciation of the INR relative to the USD results in gold prices in INR terms increasing, as India imports a lot of gold."

The Rs 20,000-crore Adani Enterprises FPO, which opened on Friday, received bids for about 1% of the shares on offer, after allegations of governance lapses and price “manipulation” by US activist short-seller Hindenburg Research triggered panic selling in shares of the conglomerate’s companies. The issue runs January 27-31. “There is no change in either the schedule or the issue price,” said an Adani Group spokesperson on Saturday.

“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.