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We expect our finance minister to continue the focus on building world class infrastructure in India with increased allocation to the sector. With surety insurance, the sector can benefit by way improved liquidity, access to increased project opportunities, release of collaterals etc.

Bitcoin, along with many other cryptocurrencies, had a fantastic yet volatile run in 2021, hitting all-time highs.

Education and health have always received lesser attention in budgetary exercise. I hope that this year, the finance minister sets up some aggressive targets for both education and health and provides sizable allocations to these two social sectors.

The top priority of the government should be to initiate measures to sustain the growth momentum in the economy. In FY22, GDP growth is likely to be around 9.3 percent, thanks to the base effect of 7.3 percent contraction in FY21.

Irrespective of how the EV players will handle this difficult situation, one thing is fairly clear. With the change in cost dynamics now, the timeline for mainstream adoption is going to be pushed farther away from the earlier estimates (which itself was for 2030).

In the BSE500 index, about 370 stocks registered degrowth during the week, whereas the remaining 130 stocks ended higher. About 30 stocks registered double digit cuts during the week. Below are some stocks that were in the spotlight during the last week

With three of the biggest intraday swings in a decade just in the past week, uneasiness in stocks is approaching levels last seen in March 2020, when the coronavirus outbreak began.

Central banks shift from crisis support to fighting inflation

Of the total Rs 95,501 crore invested through the route till December 2021, Rs 84,948 crore was invested in equities, Rs 10,322 crore in debt, Rs 231 crore in hybrid securities.

Budget expected to tread a fine balance between populism and pragmatism