A hundred new listings in FY26, a 9% listing-day pop, and a final return of negative 0.10% — Axis Capital data lays bare the cost of a market that prioritised volume over value India just completed its biggest IPO year on record. It has not gone well. A total of 100 companies listed on Indian … Read more
Washington steps in as private insurers abandon the strait — but with cover cancelled from March 5 and oil up 17% in days, India faces a mounting crisis at the pump US President Donald Trump has ordered the federal government to provide political risk insurance for all commercial shipping through the Persian Gulf and warned … Read more
From $65 to $71 in days, India’s crude basket is flashing early warning signs. The real question now is how long the Strait of Hormuz stays safe. For India, oil is crucial and has enormous impact on the macro stability, inflation math, fiscal arithmetic and, yes, market mood. In a matter of days, the Indian … Read more
Indian equity markets ended Monday’s bruising session well off their lows, with the Nifty 50 recovering sharply from an intraday bottom of 24,600 to close at 24,865 which is a sign that buying interest emerged at lower levels even as the broader sentiment remained deeply cautious following a geopolitical shock that rattled global financial markets. … Read more
The US-Israel strike that killed Khamenei has changed the geopolitical reality in the Middle East. Indian markets will pay the price on Monday, the question is for how long. The weekend did not bring rest. It brought fire over Tehran, the death of a supreme leader who had ruled Iran for 37 years, and a … Read more
Oaktree Capital chief calls AI advancement “unlike anything we’ve seen before,” flags job displacement fears while urging moderate, selective investing approach Howard Marks, co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, has released his latest client memo titled “AI Hurtles Ahead,” a follow-up to his December 2025 piece “Is It a Bubble?” — and the tone … Read more
The Middle East Is at War. Here’s What It Means for Every Asset Class in Your The world woke up to a fundamentally different geopolitical reality on Saturday morning. The United States and Israel launched a massive, coordinated military campaign against Iran — codenamed Operation Epic Fury by the Pentagon — striking Tehran, Isfahan, Qom, … Read more
A decade ago, UltraTech made roughly one in every six bags of cement sold in India. Today it makes closer to one in three There is a moment in every infrastructure supercycle when one company pulls decisively ahead of the pack. For India’s cement sector, that moment may already have passed and UltraTech Cement shareholders … Read more
Five years old, Disney on the shelf, UAE on the roadmap Striders Impex Ltd. (SIL) opened its maiden SME IPO for public subscription on February 26, 2026, and the issue closes on March 2, 2026. The company is raising Rs 36.29 crore through a combination of a fresh issue of 45,31,200 equity shares (worth Rs … Read more
A Blume Ventures study covering 11 years of Indian mainboard IPOs shows venture-backed companies are reshaping the primary market in ways that go well beyond headline offer sizes. The Class of 2025 Looked Nothing Like the Class of 2015. When Groww listed in November 2025 at just eight years old with a Rs 66.3 billion offer, … Read more