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Two stocks -- Tiger Logistics (India) and Lancer Containers Lines, which provide container services to traders -- have been seeing a lot of investor interest on the bourses and rallied more than 100 per cent in the last one month.

In India too, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has launched his own NFTs, which are themed around his life. Before him, Sunny Leone became the first Bollywood actress to launch her own NFT collection of unique, hand-animated art. Messi, Big B and Leone are not alone in this business. The popularity of NFT, a type of digital asset, has exploded beyond anyone’s imagination in recent years.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission appears to have locked horns with cryptocurrency exchanges lately. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has threatened to sue Coinbase if the crypto exchange goes ahead with its plans to launch a program allowing users to earn interest by lending crypto assets.

For the continuing gush of foreign money in the debt segment, Himanshu Srivastava, associate director (research) of Morningstar India, said, "The stability in Indian currency and increasing bond spreads between the US and India made Indian debt better placed on the risk-reward basis, which would have caught investor fancy resulting in rather sudden and high inflows."

A look at the consolidated earnings of Nifty50 companies shows it was at almost Rs 358 per share average in August 2020, and has been continuously improving since then. The same figure averaged at Rs 446 in April, 2021 and Rs 607 in August 2021. Therefore, if you look at the PE data of this year, it is continuously on a decline, even though the key indices are touching new levels.

This week, market momentum is likely to be provided by Inflation numbers of India and the United States. The shortage of semiconductor chips may dent sentiments for RIL and auto. IPO listing and the new issues will also be the focus of investors at Dalal Street.

Globally, corporate capital expenditure, or capex, will jump by 13% this year, according to S&P Global Ratings, with growth in all regions and broad sectors -- especially in semiconductors, retail, software and transportation. Economists at Morgan Stanley forecast that global investment will reach 115% and 121% of pre-recession levels by the end of 2021 and end of 2022, a much faster recovery than previous downturns.

Bank of America Corp. strategists say that if Tuesday’s inflation figures back up the transitory narrative, it will lift the odds that long-term yields remain low for the next six to 12 months. The report is forecast to show a fourth straight month of the consumer price index gaining at an annual pace of 5% or greater.

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“Possibly up to March-June 2022, we can expect all the three industries -- travel & tourism, hospitality and aviation -- to do exceedingly well. One must play the momentum in some of these stocks, rather than go for a long term bet.”