Correlation is a statistical measure of how closely two things move together, expressed as a number between negative 1 and positive 1. A correlation of positive 1 means two stocks or sectors move in lockstep, up and down together, every time. A correlation of negative 1 means they move in exact opposite directions. A correlation near zero means there is essentially no reliable relationship between how the two behave. Real stocks and sectors almost never sit at either extreme,

Last Reviewed and Updated: 17 Aug 2026 A bulk deal happens inside the regular, continuous trading session, triggered when a single client buys or sells at least 0.5% of a company's total listed shares in a single day, executed through the normal order book alongside every other trade happening that moment. A block deal is structurally different: a single, privately negotiated transaction between two parties, executed in a separate, dedicated trading window set apart from regu

Last Reviewed and Updated: 17 Aug 2026 The Nifty 50 and the Sensex are both weighted by market capitalisation, meaning a small number of very large companies can move the entire index on their own, regardless of what most of the other constituents are doing. On a fairly ordinary trading day, the Nifty 50 might close up 0.4%, entirely on the back of a 2% surge in a single heavyweight stock, while 34 of the other 49 constituents close flat or lower. The index level alone cannot

Last Reviewed and Updated: 17 Aug 2026 The Headline Gap, And Why The Exact Number Moves HDFC Bank is India's largest private sector bank by assets, and for years it traded at a premium valuation precisely because the market trusted its consistency. That trust has been tested over the past few years. Recent reporting describes HDFC Bank's return over a trailing 5 year period as coming in below prevailing fixed deposit interest rates, a genuinely weak outcome for an equity inve

Last Reviewed and Updated: 17 Aug 2026 FII (-₹5,779 Cr) and DII (+₹35,099 Cr) Activity in Indian Equity Markets: July 2026 Every trading day, two large pools of capital shape the direction of Indian equities: Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) and Domestic Institutional Investors (DIIs). Their daily buying and selling numbers, published by the exchanges, offer one of the clearest windows into how confident overseas money and domestic money are feeling about Indian stocks

Last Reviewed and Updated: 17 Aug 2026 For most Indian investors, the Nifty 50 is shorthand for steady, dependable wealth creation. Over the past five years, the index itself has climbed at a healthy mid-to-high single-digit to low double-digit compounded annual growth rate, depending on the exact window measured, comfortably ahead of what a bank fixed deposit would have paid. But an index average hides a lot of dispersion beneath the surface. A close look at NSE-quoted closi

Last Reviewed and Updated: 17 Aug 2026 Every share, ETF unit, or bond you hold is recorded in your demat account, maintained by one of India's two depositories, NSDL or CDSL, not by your broker. Your broker is an intermediary that places orders and interfaces with your account, nothing more. Its own financial health, insolvency, or closure has no bearing on the depository's own records of what you own. Mutual fund units work the same way in substance, held on record with the

Last Reviewed and Updated: 17 Aug 2026 The Four Things Every Application Needs However you apply, online or offline, every demat account application in India is built around four categories of document: proof of identity, proof of address, proof of your bank account, and your PAN. PAN specifically is mandatory for essentially every resident individual investor, with no meaningful exception for ordinary retail applicants. Requirement Commonly Accepted Documents Notes PAN PAN c

Last Reviewed and Updated: 17 Aug 2026 Annual Maintenance Charges and brokerage are the two costs most comparisons lead with, and our earlier articles on demat account basics and on choosing a broker cover both, including the current BSDA rule that brings AMC to nil for holdings up to Rs 4 lakh. What follows here is everything past those two, the charges that apply no matter which broker you use, and that a headline free account pitch rarely mentions. A Depository Participant