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“Invest only in that part of your capital which you do not need for three-five years where you can handle volatility, where you can handle loss of value for some time, both emotionally and financially. If one invests in that way I think things should turn out to be quite okay.”

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 834.92 points, or 2.51%, to 34,058.75, the S&P 500 gained 95.95 points, or 2.24%, to 4,384.65 and the Nasdaq Composite added 221.04 points, or 1.64%, to 13,694.62.

The volatility remained immense given the number of uncertainties that surrounded the happenings around the world. Nifty had large and wide moves through the week, with the index oscillating over 1147 points and finally ending with a net loss of 618 points (-3.58%) on a weekly note.

"With increasing size and complexity of financial markets, addressing information asymmetry and having adequately informed investors and multiple stakeholders in the market cannot be overemphasised," Sebi said in a circular on Friday.

The second major cryptocurrency Ethereum was at $2,710 per coin, up 2.66 per cent.

"The correction in these PSU stocks makes them a bit more fragile over the very near term but I believe we are now at a position where it is more important to have more sustainability of your portfolios rather than a more return-oriented kind of portfolio because of the kind of news flow and volatility," said independent market analyst Kunal Bothra.

"I would still say that the Fed and inflation factors will weigh more on the market than the Ukraine factor"

"We estimate that the petrol consumer price index would go up by anywhere around 10% month-on-month. This could be staggered, so it is not like they are going to just wake up and raise prices in one shot. You will have these daily increases of 20-30 paise possibly but also it could be sort of staggered over the course of a couple of months."

Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says successful investing is all about behavior and psychology and even the best model or analysis in the world is of no use if investors press the panic button during tough times.

The NFT boom, which some estimate to have generated more than $25 billion in sales last year, has also raised questions of an eventual NFT bust as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies see their values drop.