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European markets have finished a choppy week with a modest rebound, with the FTSE100 breaking a 3-day losing streak, although it is still set to fall for the second week in a row, having sunk to a 3-week low yesterday.

Apart from this, leap years too have seen a lot of volatility. Statistics show that Indian markets face drawdowns of about 25% every 3.5 to 4 years. 2024 is a leap year and this pattern too adds up to the overall market volatility.

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The largest VIX trade on Friday was a $16.8-million purchase of 250,000 call options that would benefit from the volatility index rising above 17 by mid-February

Rishi Kohli says: "Historical data suggests that FIIs miss the initial upward momentum of a new bull market, but the FII flows sort of chase this momentum and once further events line up to the positive view then their flows create further positive momentum which is what I expect to happen this year."

Siddhartha Khemka says: “We believe that there are various sectors where the valuations are comfortable, the earnings are picking up. So, if you take the example, earnings for several sectors which have been sluggish for the past several years, have been picking up. These are sectors like automobiles, real estate, capital goods, infra, industrials, utilities, hotels.”

Sundararaman Ramamurthy says: “If you look at the profile of these people who have got registered in the last three-four years, while Maharashtra and Delhi may be a bigger state contributing to the pie, the growth is not contributed by these states. It is being contributed by Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Punjab, MP and Rajasthan. Cities like Agra, Varanasi and Indore that are contributing more.”

Sanjiv Bhasin believes SBI is still the most undervalued stock and recommends staying with it. He also suggests LIC Housing and AB Capital as potential outperformers in the NBFC space. Bhasin mentions DCB Bank as a small cap dark horse with the potential for significant outperformance. He discusses the volatility of IT companies and advises sticking with the best large caps. He suggests considering NBFCs and select midcap PSU banks.

​Several exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tied to the spot price of bitcoin began trading in the U.S. on Thursday in a landmark moment for the cryptocurrency industry that has been seeking regulatory approval for the financial product for over a decade.

We saw them just on tuesday launch 21 drones and missiles that were intercepted by u.s. and u.k. destroyers and aircraft. so you see over the course of the last 48, 72 hours a potential major escalation in the red sea, in the southern red sea. again, the u.s. new carrying out strikes in yemen using fighter jets as well as tomahawk missiles against houthi targets. they had warned this was a possibility, and wolf, we are very much seeing that possibility play out as we speak. >> this war could be ...