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It is common for children to consider anything they do not encounter regularly in their quotidian lives as weird or alien. More so if they happen to be born in and growing up in places other than the homeland of their parents or grandparents. It is then up to their elders to orient and acquaint them with their heritage and culture in an organic manner, so that they as second and third generation migrants-often biracial-have open minds towards unfamiliar customs and practices.

The Romans saw the Vikings are barbarians and were eager to make them Christian, for they beleived their truth was the universal truth. They were not interested in learning from 'lesser' people. For Romans, the others had to be subjugated. They were resources and rivals, to be enslaved, and brought into the Roman fold. In time, the Vikings lands of Scandinavia would give rise to the Dutch who would change the world forever by inventing the stock market, a financial revolution that provided vast amounts of credit to the newly emerging industrial economy.

First, it was unsecured loans, then it was housing finance companies and in the last two days, it has been micro finance companies. RBI has been taking stock of each segment of the financial service and tightening the norms so that accidents like 2018 can be avoided. Whenever there is tightening of norms, stocks from that sector tend to correct. The question is whether that correction is something which is an opportunity or not. One part of the answer lies in looking at overall market size and the growth. In the case of the housing finance segment, there is hardly any doubt about growth potent...

At a time when nifty is moving in and out of green territory, it would be better to add one more parameter to watch, that is market breadth.There are clear signs of profit booking taking place in the broader market with market breadth not being as positive as it used to be. While the initial part of any volatility is led by large caps, there is a higher probability that the large caps are able to stabilize much before any part of the market.So, if one is thinking of fresh exposure to the market it would be better to stick with large caps as they are likely to outperform as and when we see retu...

Unlike last quarter of 2023, when nifty and sensex used to witness correction and mid-cap index was able move higher. Since the start of 2024, the mid-cap index is also participating in the correction, clearly indicating that some profit booking is taking place in this segment of the market. Having said that, if one looks at the flow of money to the mutual funds, a good amount of it is still coming in funds which are focussed on mid or small cap. There is no way one can fight with liquidity, if it is going to mid caps and they are moving up irrespective of valuations or quality of stocks one c...