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Tencent Cloud Europe BV divested ₹415.7 crore worth of PB Fintech shares in a bulk transaction on the NSE, selling 33 lakh shares at ₹1,259.7 each.

Actively run exchange-traded funds are poised for a record-breaking $260 billion haul this year, driven by investors turning to alternative strategies beyond traditional benchmarks. State Street predicts a significant increase in flows into active ETFs compared to last year.

The U.S. dollar index remained stable near 104.13, hinting at a potential 0.5% decline for the week due to expectations of Fed rate cuts. Traders anticipate a softer non-farm payrolls report, possibly below the 185,000 forecast.

RBI is set to release final guidelines for securitisation of stressed assets, potentially initiating a junk bond market in India.

The RBI accepted bids worth ₹7,287.56 crore in a government bond buyback auction out of ₹30,000 crore offered by the Centre.

Even pre-election, I had an interaction with media and I said that I am very constructive on the overall financial sector, so I remain constructive. I think some of the corporate banks are also available at very reasonable valuation compared to their historical past, hardly any return is being made in the last four-five years, I would argue it is a good thing to have them in your portfolio. However as you rightly said within the whole sector the biggest opportunity might be in the housing finance sector basically because the companies are available at a very reasonable valuation.

​However, I think for markets with India perspective we are very-very light right now, we still like to see over the next couple of days of what transpires on the political front and therefore the initiatives that will be taken over the next few days and specifically in the budget in terms of allocations are going to be extremely critical.

From highest conviction perspective, the chemical and agrochemical sector that I mentioned, then infrastructure is another sector where we will see many investments coming in.

Consumer stocks are under-owned at this point of time. They have not given any returns for the last four-five years, leave aside something like a Godrej Consumer or a Tata Consumer which have been outliers and some stocks like Titan and all which have their own dynamics.

Oil prices rose in Asian trading on rising expectations of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut in September and a rebound from a selloff linked to growing U.S. inventories and an OPEC+ supply increase.