Nippon India Mutual Fund’s Rupesh Patel remains constructive on midcaps despite concerns over valuations, citing resilient earnings growth and improved valuation comfort after a prolonged time correction. He favours financials, consumer discretionary and select industrials, while emphasising a bottom-up stock-picking approach to navigate geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainties.
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Equity markets saw broad-based selling pressure after weak monsoon forecasts raised concerns over food inflation, though falling crude oil prices and easing bond yields helped