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I aggressively predicted last year that the Bank of Canada would lower interest rates by two per cent and this would be the key theme of 2024. As it turns out, I was mostly correct since rates fell 1.75 per cent.

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The cryptocurrency market has had an extraordinary year, and market participants are optimistic about the prospects for 2025 as a new administration takes over in Washington D.C., though plenty of uncertainty remains.

Rajeev Agarwal, Fund Manager & Managing Partner, Doordarshi India Fund, says the policy measures will drive to a very large extent what happens either on the upside or the downside. Markets may not tell the full story because there is a story about some stocks that have risen a lot in 2024 and maybe they will take a little bit of a backseat while some others that have been punished in 2024 may have a better opportunity as we go into 2025. It may be a lot more stock-specific rather than market-specific. But from an Indian stock perspective, the base case of around 13% annual return is quite reasonable. What exactly are you expecting in terms of the market dynamics – globally as well as back home? What’s in store for global markets next year, after they have been navigating through this election cycle, lots of unusual market dynamics as well? Rajeev Agarwal: For 2025, clearly the one big event is Trump taking over the reins as the US President. A lot of policy measures are expected to be introduced by Trump very quickly. Clearly, he has the people that he wanted and many of those will get confirmed. That is going to be the one big event which will drive a lot of the markets.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. While the winners among asset classes keep rotating every year, the absence of any such pattern over the past 10 years (see chart) reinforces the importance of asset allocation in building a balanced portfolio. Here’s a quick look at the performance of different asset classes in 2024.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. CA Rudra Murthy B.V., founder director of Vachana Investments and author of the Amazon bestseller ‘Mind Markets & Money’, has experienced several stock market cycles in his nearly two-decade-long investing career. Given the current market environment, he believes investors will be better off chasing value rather than momentum in 2025, with a focus on large-cap stocks.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. After two consecutive quarters of sluggish economic growth, policymakers and economists are banking on a turnaround in the second half of the fiscal year, driven by increased government spending, a boost from the ongoing festive season, and resilient rural consumption.

It was a special year for Montreal-based National Bank of Canada, given that the country’s sixth-largest lender beat analysts’ expectations every quarter in this fiscal year, topped its all-time share price high and dominated headlines with its bid to take over Edmonton-based Canadian Western Bank (CWB).

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Government capex would align with nominal GDP growth in times to come while private capex is expected to gather pace over the next three to five years, driven by higher capacity utilisation and an uptick in investments in emerging sectors such as renewables and electric vehicles, according to Hari Shyamsunder of Franklin Templeton. Shyamsunder, vice president & senior institutional portfolio manager—emerging markets equity—India at the company, said the slowdown in corporate earnings in the second quarter ended September was temporary.

It’s been an action-packed year for the Bank of Canada, with policymakers cutting interest rates five consecutive times by a total of 175 basis points.

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Sandip Sabharwal, asksandipsabharwal.com, says the valuation derating for HDFC Bank seems to be more or less through. If going forward from next year, they come back to the credit growth trends which they had historically, then there is a realistic possibility that HDFC Bank should do well. Reliance is down almost 30% from the top and there is a realistic possibility it could outperform next year. This is how the last part of 2024 is going to pan out I guess because a whole lot of cues have dried up. The FII volumes as well have abated and it is going to be very minuscule up until January when the earning season kicks off. Then there will be the budget and it is going to be a hectic calendar year henceforth. Sandip Sabharwal: Although trading activity ebbs going into the end of December, the markets move have been there historically and that is still possible. But overall there is a greater possibility that given the lack of cues per se in terms of any significant policy decision or any significant news flow coming in or likely to come in over the next couple of weeks, the probability that after this initial sell-off driven by US Fed action or the projection they have given for the year 2025, we should see the markets become range-bound without any significant dip or up move.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) plans to increase the number of fresher hirings from engineering campuses in 2025-26 from the current fiscal’s commitment of 40,000 amid higher growth prospects, its chief human resources officer Milind Lakkad told ET. India’s largest IT services giant is on track to onboard its committed 40,000 freshers from colleges along with training across multiple technologies including the latest artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI or GenAI tools in FY25 ending March 2025, said Lakkad who is also an executive vice president at TCS. “I expect that number to go up a bit more (in FY26),” Lakkad told ET in an interview. He said the firm’s planning cycle for FY26 starts now.

The report attributed this to a shift in the U.S. Federal Reserve's stance on rate cuts, which has reshaped global monetary policy expectations. The report noted that the Federal Reserve's decision to pause rate hikes was not unexpected, as markets had already anticipated a shallower rate cut cycle. The Fed aligns with market projections of two rate cuts in 2025 and two more in 2026, compared to its September guidance of four cuts in 2025 alone.

Brazil’s real has fallen to its weakest level against the dollar since the currency was introduced in 1994, undercut by investors’ frustration with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's efforts to rein in government spending

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin proposed a state budget plan on Wednesday that would permanently give tax relief on tips and cars, measures that his Republican administration has said would give money back to middle- and lower-income workers

The Canadian dollar’s slide continued Wednesday amid expectations for a slower pace of rate cuts from the U.S. Federal Reserve.

Despite gaining four points to take their tally to 114 overall, India’s PCT slipped from 57.29 to 55.88 with only their second draw in the ongoing WTC cycle. Australia also had their PCT shrink from 60.71 to 58.88 with this edition’s second draw.