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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Retail investors are loading up on the riskiest assets even as experts flag the many hazards of doing so. Going by history, this will end badly.
Lately, whenever I log in to my trading account, I get this pop-up that I must acknowledge before proceeding.
The caution, while warranted, as we shall see, is not because my broker is concerned about my financial well-being. It is mandated by SEBI which, as a regulator, is clearly spooked by the fancy for derivatives among investors who are usually not fully aware of what they are getting into, especially when markets are at all-time highs and looking very frothy.
Consider the facts—the total number of individual derivative traders was just over 700,000 in 2018-19, per SEBI data. In …
A month on, CAS has only amplified volatility, manipulation and confusion rather than containing them.
FY26 numbers show that Airtel is stealing a march on its larger rival on most counts and is unrelenting in its ambition, casting a cloud on Jio’s valuation.
Surprisingly strong metrics alongside aggressive expansion mask a lurking balance-sheet risk. Moreover, competition is not going to be kind to the retail giant any time soon.
