The correction of March on Dalal Street should serve as a warning to all those who tend to buy stocks without bothering to look at what is the business of the company. The way correction panned out, there is a high probability that going forward that an upward movement in mid-cap space would be more stocks or sector specific rather than being a broad brush up move in which every stocks is moving upward with any rhyme or reason, One thing which long term investors who are taking exposure to the mid-cap should focus on individual companies and their underlying business. Also it is time to rejig the portfolio and go with better quality stocks in even the mid cap space. At the same time, because overall valuations are high, be ready for underperformance for some time and focus on the long term.
Fed’s rate cut well received by global markets: Mitul Kotecha
Global equities rallied after the US Federal Reserve’s 25-basis-point rate cut, though future moves remain uncertain due to a divided Fed stance. The central bank