ETMarkets Smart Talk: Investors should avoid deploying new capital to small and midcap mutual fund schemes: Mohit Ralhan

“Solid domestic consumption, an upswing in corporate capex and increased attractiveness among foreign investors mean that Indian stock indices will continue to do well in 2024. However, investors should be mindful of the risks as well. A prolonged recession in the developed world like the US and Eurozone could have negative consequences for India’s export-oriented sectors like IT, healthcare etc.”

AI to drive a new wave of IT spending and if ready, Indian companies could greatly benefit: Pankaj Murarka

“The underlying US economy, despite some slowdown, continues to remain very strong, which is good for IT as a sector. Secondly, from whatever I read and my conversation with a lot of IT companies here and some global experts, people believe that with the evolution of artificial intelligence, the impact on IT industry and more broadly on the world as a whole will be as profound as it happened with internet way back in early 90s and mid-90s.”

26 anchor investors put in Rs 285 crore in Muthoot Microfin ahead of IPO

​The IPO-bound NBFC-MFI has allocated a total of 98 lakh equity shares to anchor investors at Rs 291 apiece.The company, a part of the Muthoot Pappachan Group and promoted by Muthoot Fincorp, fixed a price band of Rs 277-291 per equity share for the IPO, which comprises a fresh issue amounting to Rs 760 crore and an OFS aggregating to Rs 200 crore.