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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. • AMI Organics: Buy at current market price and dips to ₹2,250, stop ₹2,230, target ₹2,500-2,550 This chemical stock has been undergoing a lot of pain and was subject to some intense sell-off. The last few days have been spent in consolidation, and now, with volatility expanding to the upside, one can look at some potential rise in store.

China on Wednesday set its GDP growth target for 2025 at «around 5%» and laid out stimulus measures to boost its economy amid escalating trade tensions with the U.S.

BEIJING — China on Wednesday announced plans to raise its fiscal deficit to «around 4%» of gross domestic product, a rare increase that marks a meaningful shift in policy.

market sentiment divided on the future of India's real estate sector, analysts are offering contrasting views. While market strategist Christopher Wood remains bullish, asserting that the real estate cycle is far from over, market expert Neeraj Dewan takes a more measured stance, pointing out signs of consolidation amid a slowdown in investments. In an interaction with ETNow, Dewan highlighted that real estate and stock markets tend to move in tandem, and the recent correction in equities has also affected real estate investments.

trade tensions, Swaminathan Aiyar, Consulting Editor at ET Now Swaminathan Aiyar has downplayed concerns over the direct impact of U.S. tariff plans on India. In an interaction with ET Now, Aiyar asserted that India is «hardly on the radar screen» when it comes to Washington’s trade actions, which are largely aimed at economic heavyweights like Russia, China, and Mexico. While Union Minister Piyush Goyal’s upcoming visit to the U.S. has sparked speculation over potential trade negotiations, Aiyar believes that the scope of such discussions remains limited.

China's yuan was firm in offshore trading following a rally of about 0.7% in the prior session, as annual parliamentary sessions of the National People's Congress (NPC) kicked off with Beijing retaining a 5% economic growth goal for 2025.

«In the interim, flows can have some excesses, but we really feel that we have reached the bottom on Nifty. You can never say never, but largely we think we are done. Because even if you take earnings post downgrades, broadly next year will be 1200 rupees of earnings and 26-27 would be 1350 rupees of earnings,» says Sanjay H Parekh, Sohum Asset Managers. Give us a lowdown on where you feel the markets are headed from here. Do you think we have bottomed out enough because we had slipped below that 22,000 mark initially in the first half of the trading day? We have managed to recover only nominally from there. But do you believe that this is the worst for the market and now would be a good time for FIIs and along with them some confidence to return in the market? Sanjay H Parekh: So, essentially, our product is Nifty benchmark where we have at least 70% always in largecap. In fact, our average largecap holding has been 78%. So, I will just give you a perspective of how we think about Nifty to begin with. So, we think now the risk-return is really favourable.

Jim Walker, Chief Economist, Aletheia Capital, says if the US economy begins to slow and which is very likely, then the direction of travel is going to have to change and that really means that he is going to have to back off some of this aggression towards his partners and within his own country. Hopefully by the middle of this year, a lot more sensible decisions will be made and a lot more visibility about where we are going. The underlying fundamentals remain the same. Asia looks pretty good, India looks great, China is recovering, and the real problems lie in the advanced economies in America. Walker said to clients this week that this is the time to absolutely double down on the long in India, go much longer and although we worry about the valuations in the Indian stock market, my view is that economic growth is going to take off from here and those valuations will be quickly supported by corporate earnings. Walker, who had predicted the 2008 crisis, does not think the present situation is like 2008. It will be a pretty painful slowdown, but we can go to the other end of it without the kind of government and central bank action that took place in 2008, 2009.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. When Warren Buffett lambasted US President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs as “an act of war to some degree," he wasn’t wrong. Of course, there’s no conventional battle going on.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Toy makers are worried, as everything from dolls to board games is about to get more expensive. Hundreds of toy companies, ranging from giants such as Hasbro, Mattel and Lego, down to the smallest tinkerers, gathered at New York’s Toy Fair in recent days with the spectre of tariffs looming large.

Adani Wilmar, Ola Electric, Ambuja Cements, Power Grid, JSW Energy among others will be in focus due to various news developments. ONGC Indian oil explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp said its unit acquired clean energy firm PTC Energy for Rs 925 crore ($106.02 million) as the company looks to ramp up its green energy portfolio.

Donald Trump on Tuesday is expected to lay out for Congress and the American people his plans for the weeks and months ahead after a turbulent first few weeks in office, which have featured a dismantling of the federal government, tensions with America's allies and a trade war compounding economic uncertainty. His joint address to Congress is the latest marker in Trump's takeover of the nation's capital, where the Republican-led House and Senate have done little to restrain the president as he and his allies work to slash the size of the federal government and remake America's place in the world. With a tight grip on his party, Trump has been emboldened to take sweeping actions after overcoming impeachments in his first term and criminal prosecutions in between his two administrations. Trump's theme will be the «renewal of the American dream,» the White House said, and he was expected to lay out his achievements as well as appeal to Congress to provide more money to finance his aggressive immigration crackdown.

global selloff in markets. Equities opened lower in Sydney and mixed in Tokyo after mayhem on Tuesday that saw a global index approach levels from the start of this year. Contracts for the S&P 500 rose 0.8% — after the index dropped 1.2% on Tuesday — echoing gains in late trading after Lutnick hinted at a compromise with Canada and Mexico. That was within hours of the US imposing the largest set of new tariffs in nearly a century on goods from its neighbors and China.

Non-bank lenders and companies could spend less on foreign-currency loans as the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) $15-billion dollar-rupee swaps, aimed at boosting domestic liquidity, have also helped reduce the benchmark rate used to price currency risks in the country. The Mumbai Interbank Forward Offer Rate (MIFOR), which gauges currency risk when Indian companies bring dollar funds into India, has fallen over the past month after the RBI bought dollars from banks with an agreement to sell them back three years later, indicating the central bank is ready to lend dollars at a cheaper rate to the market.

China is keeping its economic growth target at «around 5%» for 2025 despite a looming trade war with the United States and other headwinds. The target for GDP growth was announced Wednesday in a report being presented by Premier Li Qiang at the opening session of the National People's Congress, the annual meeting of China's legislature. It gives an indication of how ambitious the government is about boosting growth in challenging economic times. The IMF has projected China's economy will grow 4.6% this year, down from 5% in 2024, according to Chinese government statistics.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Nifty 50 extended its losing streak for the 10th consecutive session on Tuesday despite a strong recovery from its early losses. Tracking global market cues, the index had a gap-down opening at 21,974 but quickly rebounded from the day's low, reclaiming 22,000 within the first hour of trading.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On 4 March, the Sensex and Nifty declined due to the impact of new US tariffs on major trading partners such as China, Canada, and Mexico. These tariffs unsettled global markets and hurt investor confidence.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Early indicators suggest that the US economy is slowing down. This, even before the adverse effect of President Donald Trump’s policies such as additional import tariffs kick-in.

Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is considering a plan to ease restrictions on short-selling — a trading strategy betting on a decline in prices of an asset-- on most stocks. In a recent meeting of the regulator-appointed secondary market advisory committee (SMAC), the proposal was discussed after broking industry officials highlighted that the market watchdog's January 2024 proposal to bar short-selling in stocks that are not in the future and options segment had caused uncertainty. The new recommendations, if implemented, could allow short-selling in all stocks, barring those in the trade-to-trade, or T2T, segment, said sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Sebi officials, during the discussions, agreed to give the plan another thought, they said. An email to Sebi went unanswered till press time.

India marking the 20th anniversary of the Bengaluru office for the Wall Street bellweather, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon spoke with ET’s Arijit Barman, emphasizing that the global economy will remain deeply interconnected despite the rising intensity of trade tariff rhetoric. During his brief one-day visit to India where the firm has invested over $8.5 billion, Solomon will stop at the firm’s Bengaluru campus where Goldman Sachs’ technology engineers and quants are driving innovation—developing systems that span from trade execution and risk management to advancing the immersion of AI with their global colleagues throughout the firm.

«We have seen volumes drop by over 40% compared to last year's peak in the cash market,» said Sandip Raichura, CEO-retail broking and distribution at PL Capital. «This is due to first-time investors who are seeing their first correction and exiting, along with large clients like treasuries and HNIs (high networth individuals) unwilling to bet big in the current weak scenario.»