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While Europe shunned Russian oil, the supply chain re-routed towards Asia and earlier frictions largely eased. Russian oil still finds its buyers and the earlier feared supply shortfall has not materialised. China’s muted economic activity translates into somewhat lower oil imports as confirmed by data this week, suggesting that China’s energy supplies overall, from oil, and natural gas to coal, are ample.

Vora, who handles funds worth over Rs 1 lakh crore in the private insurer, is now more bullish on the domestic consumption theme. "Goods and services both are doing quite well. There is a pent-up element to demand in a lot of things. Even shopping, services, travel and tourism and automobiles, etc, have seen some element of pent-up demand. In automobiles specifically, while there was demand, there were chip shortages and supply issues. Now, those shortages are behind us and the pent-up element is showing up," he told ET Now.

Crypto lenders boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing depositors with high interest rates and easy access to loans rarely offered by traditional banks. They lent out tokens to mostly institutional investors, making a profit from the difference.

Vodafone Group at present holds 58.46 per cent stake in the company and Aditya Birla Group 16.53 per cent. The company had raised Rs 3,375 crore from Vodafone Group and Rs 1,125 crore from Aditya Birla Group in March. VIL has been trying to raise funds in the range of Rs 20,000-25,000 crore from external sources since the last two years but has failed to attract any investor.

The combination of factors influencing the situation for the crypto industry may appear dire. Still, we need to remind ourselves that when situations get hard, it is the time we always find a way to get through such tough times. This time in history is genuinely a fantastic moment to start over and identify products and services that might cause further trouble to the crypto-industry, especially as and when things stabilize over the next several months.

Factors are building blocks of returns and each factor tends to target a specific driver of returns. Importantly, factors are designed to be less correlated amongst themselves. Combining these factors can help diversify the risk profile of the portfolio and eventually lead to better long-term performance.

The record low levels of the domestic currency and intense FII outflows are capping the upside in the market. Further, lacklustre India Inc earnings are keeping sentiments in check.

Being a high beta index, it generally gives better returns than the Nifty50 when we are in a bull market. In a bear market, it tends to fall more than the benchmark.

In December 2021, the regulator had directed Gole to refund an amount of Rs 5.74 crore collected from the investors with an interest of 15 per cent per annum till the actual day of payment to the investors.

"If you think we are in a recession or are going into a recession, that does not necessarily ... work to the advantage of value stocks," said Chuck Carlson, chief executive at Horizon Investment Services.