The Dow Jones Industrial Average shot above 40,000 for the first time as the bull market marched higher on bets that inflationary pressures would ease and interest rates would come down

The US Federal Reserve held onto interest rates as was expected on Wednesday and on Thursday overnight, Wall Street was holding in the positive territory setting the trend for Dalal Street on Friday

A lot of the rising prominence in emerging markets is thanks to the mid-cap segment. Even as other major emerging markets like China have underperformed, they too have rebounded in the last few months.

While the Indian markets seem to be recovering from their jitteriness, a quick reminder that world markets are still strong, close to record highs, ahead of US inflation data, among other factors

Concerns around the instability of general elections have led to erosion of value, but markets being at an all-time high is also good news for investors.

Markets struggled to make sense of more election-linked signalling including a statement from India’s Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday asking to buy before June 4 because the markets would rise on that day

Foreign Institutional Investors are driven among other factors by what is happening elsewhere in the world and that is not looking too encouraging for capital flows anywhere else in the world

Stock markets are experiencing heightened jitteriness, mostly transmitted by the ruling BJP party’s own jitteriness, possibly because it was not confident of hitting the stretched target of 400 seats it had set for itself

Pre-election results jitters have now set into the markets which is reasonably logical and to be expected despite a victory priced into the market already

The stock markets ended lower on Tuesday with volatility rising to a 15-month high amid the ongoing national elections. The Nifty Volatility Index rose for the ninth consecutive session to close at 17.01, a 15-month high