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After witnessing high volatility over the last week, crude oil prices settled marginally lower. The Brent crude oil futures on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) ($64.80/barrel) was down 1.2 per cent. Whereas the crude oil futures on the MCX (₹5,302/barrel) lost a...

Nifty 50 (22,829) and Nifty Bank (51,002) opened last week with a huge gap-down. However, they recovered through the week and limited the loss to 0.3 per cent and 1 per cent respectively. Here’s an analysis of the derivatives data.Nifty...

Market volatility and economic uncertainty have dominated the last six months, triggering a sharp correction across equity markets. Amid these challenges, low volatility, factor-based mutual funds have demonstrated resilience, containing losses more effectively than both their parent index and other...

A family health insurance should be the first line of financial defence. With employee insurance being increasingly offered as a perk, which covers the family too, it may be viewed as a replacement by many, but it can be erroneous....

A covered call involves a long position in an underlying and a short position in an out-of-the-money (OTM) call on the underlying. What if you substitute a futures contract for the underlying in the covered call? This week, we discuss...

After several rounds of tariffs and counter tariffs, India’s Nifty-50 has corrected by 14 per cent starting from peak in Sep-24 to April 9, 2025. With a recently announced pause in tariffs, the markets recovered 2 per cent on Friday....

Torched vehicles after mob violence against the Waqf (Amendment) Act, at Dhuliyan in Murshidabad, West Bengal, on April 12, 2025 | Photo Credit: ANI West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday announced that the Waqf (Amendment) Act would not...

On April 1, four years ago, piqued by the incessant jokes in the village at his expense, Bandu Barve decided he’d had enough. It was time for him to turn ‘smart’. His dead granny’s voice rang in his ears —...

While rural demand trends continue to outpace urban consumption for the FMCG industry, the gap seems to be decreasing signalling early green shoots visible in urban consumption. According to data sourced from retail intelligence platform, Bizom,sales of FMCG goods in...