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In the SME segment, Aimtron Electronics, Beacon Trusteeship, Vilas Transcore, Ztech India, and TBI Corn will debut this week. Meanwhile, the mainboard IPO, Awfis Space Solutions will list on the exchanges this week.

With the ongoing buzz around the Lok Sabha election results, markets are still witnessing strong volatility. India vix stood above 21 as of May 24.

​A short buildup is when there is a rise in open interest and volumes along with a decrease in the price of the underlying stock in the Futures and Options segment.

The investor argued strongly that following a value strategy in India could be more lucrative. To support his point, he presented data from the MSCI India Value and MSCI India Growth indexes over 3, 5, and 10-year periods. In each case, the Value index outperformed the Growth index. He was confident that this trend would continue in the future.

Foreign investors have pulled out a massive Rs 22,000 crore from Indian equities so far this month, due to uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the Lok Sabha elections and outperformance of Chinese markets.

This week, several companies like Infosys and GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals will go ex-dividend, while Balaxi Pharmaceuticals and Davangere Sugar Company will undergo stock splits. Ex-dividend date is when stock prices adjust for dividend payouts, usually one or two days before the record date.