There is no need for Scripbox investors to worry. Our fund selection algorithms have always managed such risks by design and none of the impacted funds are recommended by Scripbox

The post-COVID-19 phase is likely to see a significant recovery in the stock prices of good and proven companies. As uncertainty goes down, the prices of these stocks are very likely going to jump up, if history tells us anything.

This means that tax-saving investments in Equity Linked Savings Schemes (ELSS), Provident Funds (EPF and PPF), National pension Scheme Contributions (NPS) can be made till 30th June 2020 for the FY 2019-20.

We were expecting the RBI governor to step in and provide liquidity and rate cuts. The RBI governor did just that today. He declared a string of measures like cutting the Repo and the reverse repo rates, cutting the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) by 100 basis points, injecting liquidity of Rs 3.74 lakh crores in the system etc. All this should cause the interest rates to go down (and hence bond prices to go up). At the time of writing this piece, the interest rates were indeed down.

Financial markets worldwide were impacted heavily by the COVID-19 pandemic as necessary lockdowns stress businesses and the economy, hopefully temporarily.

The future trend in the stock market will finally get defined by the aggregate earnings expectations from individual companies in an economy.

Risk shows up infrequently, but it is high impact. This is why one must always be aware. In the current set of events, it’s the risk attached to bond investing which has had a greater impact than equity investing. Understanding both the risk of bond investing i.e., credit risk and the risk in equity investing i.e., risk of quality, are important.

Yes Bank has been placed under Moratorium for a period of 30 days (Till April 4, 2020)