A short buildup is when there is a rise in open interest and volumes along with a decrease in the price of the underlying stock in the Futures and Options segment. Short buildup means more people are expecting the prices to go down and creating short positions. In Friday’s trading session, five stocks witnessed a build of fresh short positions. Here's the list:

One sector which bore the brunt of the winter of capital spending was the capital goods and engineering sector. However, thanks to capital expenditure by the government, segment by segment they are making a comeback. First road and infrastructure, then defence and railways. The million dollar question is what next ? There is a high probability that not one but a host of sectors and their sub segments might be getting added to the list as private sector capex shows signs of revival. This would mean that more engineering and capital good companies would see a better order book. The only difference is that unlike railways and defence where one large order comes to be implemented over years. When orders from a pharma, chemical cement or a private sector power company comes, they tend to be smaller in size but to be implemented in a shorter time frame.

A long buildup is when there is a rise in open interest and volumes along with an increase in the price of the underlying stock in the Futures and Options segment. The long buildup is the occurrence of a long (buying) trend in the share market. In Friday's trading session, five stocks witnessed a build of fresh long positions. Here's the list

Market valuation of LIC jumped Rs 86,146.47 crore to Rs 6,83,637.38 crore. The share price of LIC on Monday jumped nearly 6 per cent to hit the Rs 1,000 mark for the first time.

On the other hand, foreign investors pulled out more than Rs 3,000 crore from equities during the period under review. Before this, they withdrew a massive Rs 25,743 crore in January, data with the depositories showed. Himanshu Srivastava, Associate Director - Manager Research, Morningstar Investment Research India, attributed the outflow from equities to the uncertainty surrounding the interest rate environment, both domestically as well as globally.

A long buildup is when there is a rise in open interest and volumes along with an increase in the price of the underlying stock in the Futures and Options segment. The long buildup is the occurrence of a long (buying) trend in the share market. In Friday's trading session, five stocks witnessed a build of fresh long positions. Here's the list

Siemens, Hindalco Industries, Eicher Motors, BHEL, IRCTC, Bosch, Info Edge (India), Oil India, Prestige Estates Projects, Gujarat Gas, ITI, Deepak Nitrite, National Aluminium Company,

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​The Nifty50 started the week on an upward gap and consolidated for most of the week which led the index to close on a negative note for the week ended 9th February.

​It's worth pondering why stock prices fluctuate daily despite companies announcing their financial results quarterly. Alongside corporate announcements, macroeconomic factors and indicators significantly influence stock markets. Let's delve into their role.

​Led by the downside in private bank stocks, Nifty slipped 0.33% lower and broadly consolidated in the 21,600–22,000 range during the week. PSU banks outshined with SBI leading with a 12% upside in just five days.

The main trigger for this divergent trend in equity and debt is the high valuation in the Indian equity market and the rising bond yields in the US, said VK Vijayakumar of Geojit Financial.

Alkem Labs, Titan and Angel One were the top three stocks high net-worth individuals or HNI investors fell in love with in the quarter gone by. An analysis of the December quarter shareholding pattern shows that the richie rich also lapped up shares of Infosys, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and Reliance Industries. In INR value terms, HNI holding was at Rs 7.36 lakh crore on December 31, 2023. This was an increase of 14.12% over the last quarter. Here's a look at the top 10 stocks they bought: (Source: PRIME Database)

Super-investor Arnold Van Den Berg says value investing is the best approach to amass wealth in the long term, as it is not very popular with the masses and provides opportunities for investors to buy stocks at good bargains.

In the last three years, many sectors and companies which have been in the dumps for years have made a comeback. There are two kinds of comebacks, one is comeback on the dalal street. Second is a comeback in the real business. It is the second one which is more important as that is what finally matters to even the street. If one looks at the history of the liquor industry it has been dominated by two large names, but over the last few years, many smaller companies have made a comeback in a real business sense. Some due to their one brand getting super successful, others have been able to restructure their operation, reduce debt by selling some of the non core assets. Some by becoming bottlers and outsourcing their capacity to large players. In a nutshell, after two decades of ups and downs, these smaller players have reached the point where there is a possibility that they might see a re-rating, if they stay in course of clean and transparent corporate governance.

The PSU Bank Index has risen by more than 56% in the last 1 year, the Nifty Private Bank Index rose by just 14%, and in the same period Bank Nifty by 13%, making PSU Banks the leader of the segment.

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In a market in which stocks of companies undergoing bankruptcy are quoting at half billion market cap, finding stocks which have value is probably not something which is an easy thing. It is time when the choice has to be made between fairly priced or overpriced. Given the sentiments, investors are more prone to buying stock first and then looking at what is the business of the company, that too is done by very few. It is exactly the time and sentiment when it becomes extremely important to go back to the basic principle of investing. Put more checks and balances before you buy the stock and the reason for buying that stock at that point of time. So as you stay bullish, be selective.

Shares of Canara Bank, which gained 23% in the last two weeks, will remain in focus this month as the board of directors of the state-owned lender will meet on February 26 to consider a stock split.

According to the shareholding pattern available with the exchanges, Gensol Engineering is majority-owned by promoters at 62.59%, while public shareholders own the remaining 37.41%.

Amazon disclosed on February 2 that Bezos plans to sell as many as 50 million shares of Amazon over the next 12 months, potentially cashing in on a stock surge that’s put him within reach of becoming the world’s richest person.

As elevated valuations cap the upside in the broader market, smallcap rally was subdued but steady with 52 stocks gaining in double digits during the week. Mid and smallcaps had witnessed strong rallies over the past few months thus making valuations a little stretched.

On Thursday, BAT said it has been "actively working for some time" to sell a part of its stake in ITC. BAT holds a slightly over 29% stake in the Indian conglomerate spanning tobacco-to-hotels. Earlier indications from BAT suggest its intention to maintain up to a 25% shareholding in ITC to retain strategic influence, including veto rights. A 4% stake sale would be valued around ₹21,000 crore at the current market price.

As the S&P 500 has soared to fresh highs, fewer stocks have been participating in the rally, stirring worries that recent gains could reverse if the market's leaders stumble.

In the past three months, the Nifty PSE index surged close to 48%, while the Small-cap 250 and Mid-cap 100 indices rose about 21%. Analysts said the rally in public sector stocks has led to a surge in participation by individual traders, who have mounted bullish bets on them with borrowed money.

This was after the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman was in talks with investors to raise funds for a tech initiative intended to boost chip-building capacity for power AI, among other things.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 5.64 points, or 0.01%, at the open to 38,731.97. The S&P 500 opened higher by 6.26 points, or 0.13%, at 5,004.17, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 48.66 points, or 0.31%, to 15,842.38 at the opening bell.

The move comes after the Reserve Bank of India’s dictat, barring Paytm Payments Bank from onboarding new customers and offering incremental banking services from March, due to concerns regarding breach of and compliance with regulatory norms.

Nifty on Friday ended 65 points higher and found support at 20-DMA to form a small body-positive candle with a minor lower shadow on the daily chart to signal buying at lower levels.

Long unwinding refers to selling of positions or stocks owned for a longer period either to book profit or to exit it in anticipation of impending bearishness. In Friday's trading session, five stocks witnessed a top-long unwinding. Here's the list:

Shares of Megatherm Induction listed with a massive premium of 108% earlier this week. Post the debut, the stock jumped further and is currently trading at Rs 252 apiece, up nearly 133% over the issue price.

The Nifty Bank managed to surpass critical resistance placed around 45,500 levels which is a positive sign for the bulls. The index now faces the immediate hurdle around 46,000, suggest experts.

Fairfax currently has a short interest of 0.65% of free float worth C$203.81 million ($151.36 million), with short sellers having made over C$21 million in paper profits so far today, according to data from Ortex. The Canadian company's insurance business has struggled to remain profitable even after the hurricane-related catastrophes in 2017, Muddy Waters wrote in a research note.

Short covering refers to the buying of shares in order to close an existing short position or a position that has been sold. Short covering signals a shift in view on a security from extreme bearishness to bullishness. In Friday's trading session, five stocks saw top short covering. Here's the list:

Here's a look at the top sells of the various superstar investors in the December quarter. (Data Source: Trendlyne)

Bluechip Sensex stocks, SBI, Sun Pharma, and ICICI Bank were the top gainers, rising 2-3.5%. Axis Bank, Bajaj Finance, Nestle, Titan, and Asian Paints also closed with gains, while M&M, Airtel, NTPC, Tata Steel, and JSW Steel closed with cuts.

Both IOC and HPCL have given multibagger returns of 128% and 116%, respectively over the past 12 months while returns by BPCL have been to the tune of 80% during this period.

Chris Wood, in his Greed & Fear weekly newsletter, said he was pleasantly surprised at the Budget which was almost devoid of vote-buying populism despite coming just ahead of the Lok Sabha elections later in the year. In Wood's global long-only portfolio, the investment in HDFC Bank will be reduced by two percentage points, while the investments in Axis Bank and TSMC will be increased by one percentage point each.

Indian shares struggled for direction on Friday as investors digested the fading likelihood of early rate cuts in India and the United States, and as oil and gas stocks pulled back after a recent rally. Meanwhile, in today's trade, six largecap stocks from the Nifty200 index hit a new 52-week high. Here's a list:

The whole logistics sector has seen a major shake-up in the last few years, right from tech aggregators who came into the scene with a promise to disrupt, challenges that Covid brought on the table to a phase where oil prices become a pain point for margins. After all the challenges, the sector has emerged stronger as some companies restructured their operations to stay profitable. There are many facts about the logistics industry which might surprise many. Just to mention a few, a metal major has such a large fleet of owned trucks that the unit itself can be listed as a separate company and probably would figure in the top 5 logistic companies. Last year at one point of time, the market cap of one single company was higher than the market cap of all the private sector companies put together and interestingly that company was in the red.

In the September quarter of FY24, Tata Power had reported a 7% year-on-year (YoY) increase in its consolidated net profit at Rs 876 crore. It was Rs 819 crore in the same period last year.

RVNL's revenue for the reporting quarter was also lower by 6% at Rs 4,676 crore, down from Rs 5,011 crore reported by RVNL in the corresponding quarter of the last financial year. On a QoQ basis, the revenue was down by 5% over Rs 4,910 crore reported in the July-September quarter.

IREDA stock has been on a course correction since hitting its all-time high of Rs 214.80 on the NSE on Tuesday, February 6. Today's price action was accompanied by strong volume action with more than 27.39 lakh shares changing hands around 11:20 am.

"Over the last 3 years, ITC returned 3x from bottom to peak, led by strong cigarette volume growth, scale-up in FMCG, improved capital allocation, & increase in FII holding. These factors have largely played out, and cigarette volume growth is moderating," Jefferies said.

A long buildup is when there is a rise in open interest and volumes along with an increase in the price of the underlying stock in the Futures and Options segment. The long buildup is the occurrence of a long (buying) trend in the share market. In Friday's trading session, five stocks witnessed a build of fresh long positions. Here's the list:

Just because of the stock, HDFC bank came under pressure, a narrative got built, that the whole banking and financial services sector is facing headwinds. But the fact is financial service is a very broad term, it would be wrong to look at them with the same lens. Each segment is an industry in itself which is governed by an operating matrix which is very different from another. For example, a Housing finance company can be happy with 10 percent net margins, but for an average asset management company ( AMC) the net margin would be more than 30 percent. Similarly, a gold loan company is best of the NPA provisioning ability but the margins are not very high. The only common thing which binds the financial service sector is the GDP growth rate as the growth in all segments have a certain well defined relationship with growth in GDP.

A short buildup is when there is a rise in open interest and volumes along with a decrease in the price of the underlying stock in the Futures and Options segment. Short buildup means more people are expecting the prices to go down and creating short positions. In Thursday’s trading session, five stocks witnessed a build of fresh short positions. Here's the list:

The Indian government is promoting the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City, or GIFT City, as a "gateway for global capital and financial services for the economy" and is trying to attract companies through tax-breaks and other incentives.