Stock Market

Listen to this article A company reports record-breaking revenues. Analysts praise its growth story. Investors rush to buy the stock. Everything looks perfect—until one day, allegations surface, the stock crashes, and years of wealth creation disappear almost overnight. Sounds familiar? Corporate fraud isn’t a new phenomenon in the stock market. Every few years, another company […]

Listen to this article A client asked me last week whether he should pick up some NSE shares before the IPO. His logic: “it’s basically like buying the Nifty early, right?” It isn’t — and untangling why turned into a longer conversation than either of us expected. NSE, the National Stock Exchange, is a company. […]

Listen to this article “Which one do you guys actually track daily?” That’s a real question from a real investor thread, and it’s a fair one. Most people who invest in Indian equities eventually run into both names, watch both numbers move together on the news, and never quite work out whether it matters which […]

Listen to this article This article is being published in mid-2026, looking back at what was actually predicted for 2025, and checking in on 2026 and 2027 while they’re still unfolding. Morgan Stanley’s base case target for the Sensex, set in early 2025, was 93,000 by December. It closed the year at 85,221. If you’re […]

Listen to this article Here’s a number that surprises most people the first time they see it. On 25 July 1990, the Sensex closed at 1,001 points. As of July 2026, it trades above 77,000. That is not a typo. That is 36 years of Indian stock market history compressed into one number. Somewhere between […]

Listen to this article Here’s a number worth sitting with for a second: ₹5,000. That’s what a college-going chartered accountancy student in Mumbai used to open his first position in the stock market, back in 1985. By the time he passed away in August 2022, that same account had grown into a portfolio worth several […]