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For most retail investors, an IPO is a short story. Apply, get allotment if lucky, sell on listing day, pocket the gains. The grey market premium becomes the only number that matters. Whether the business is any good is rarely asked.
This is not investing. It is closer to a lottery, one where the odds are set by bankers, institutional allocations, and listing-day se...
Long before earnings calls were live-streamed, before terminals lit up trading floors, and social media became a real-time newswire, investors had to rely on something less glamorous: conversations. Information moved through people, and those who learned to listen well had an edge no spreadsheet could replicate.
It’s an edge that, surprisingly, still works.
<...May was quieter than April on the surface. The Nifty 50 closed down just 2.61%, and midcaps and smallcaps actually edged into positive territory. But beneath the headline numbers, crude oil remained the dominant force, fear gauges stayed elevated, and a US-China trade truce reshuffled global trade expectations just enough to matter.
This month, we cover five stories...
Every few months, a notification arrives. Your smallcase is due for a rebalance. Some investors act on it immediately. Others wait. A few skip it entirely.
The hesitation is understandable. Rebalancing asks you to make active decisions about your portfolio at exactly the moments when markets feel most uncertain. And because those decisions often involve selling some...
Open your phone. Order a cab on Uber. Ask a question on ChatGPT. Pay with Google Pay. Stream a show on Netflix. Every single one of these actions runs on a tiny piece of technology smaller than your fingernail: a semiconductor chip.
A semiconductor chip, often just called a “chip,” is a thin sliver of silicon w...