Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have shown erratic behaviour when it comes to investing in finance and banking stocks, with buying sprees frequently interrupted by periods of selling. After significant selling of financial stocks by FPIs in January and February, March saw renewed interest, only for the selling to resume in April and May. The pattern … Read more
A rally fuelled by robust fundamentals has led to a re-rating in the infrastructure and capital-goods sectors, pushing several stocks into what seems like overvalued territory. Several infrastructure and capital-goods stocks are trading above their 10-year average price-to-earnings (PE) ratio. The PE ratio compares a company’s stock price to its earnings per share, so a … Read more
The year is 2034. America’s “magnificent seven” firms make up almost the entirety of the country’s stockmarket. For Jensen Huang, the boss of Nvidia, another knockout quarterly profit means another dizzy proclamation of a “tipping point” in artificial intelligence. Nobody is listening. The long march of passive investing has put the last stockpickers and stock-watchers … Read more