Tweet Buster: D-Street’s fear factor, Shankar Sharma’s tip & what to buy

NEW DELHI: Hopes of a capital market booster package from the government gave a fillip to the stock market this past week, helping equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty end almost one per cent higher for the week.

Amid all the turmoil that has been plaguing the market, here's a look at what sense top D-Street experts are making of the market moves and what are their tips for navigating this choppiness.

Sandip Sabharwal, an independent market expert, says the silver lining for India amid the sombre mood in the global economy is the declining crude oil prices.




Market veteran Shankar Sharma says investing is about realism and not romanticism, and thus one needs to be detached while making investment decisions.


Basant Maheshwari, PMS fund manager, says investors should chase liquidity, as it will chase performance.


Sabharwal says if the government doesn't respond to the slowdown concerns, then the market can retest its bottom again.


Shyam Sekhar, iThought, said had people manufactured one-10th of the fear they do now when markets traded at its high valuations, everybody would be smiling now.


Sekhar says most of the stocks are available cheap but instead people are discussing policy changes.


Sekhar expects the auto sector to see a rebound soon.


Amar Ambani, Research Head at YES Securities, says the consolidation would last till 2020, and it is best to exit companies plagued by governance issues and regulatory overhang.


Fund manager Samir Arora says there is no point worrying about a surcharge on capital gains? For that, one precondition is capital gains.