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What is Dollar Index and why it's important ?
Dollar Index (often referred as to DXY) is a measure of the value of the U.S. dollar relative to a basket of 6 Foreign Currencies
🔰Foreign Currency Weightages against the measure
Euro - 57%
Japanese Yen - 13.6%
Canadian Dollar - 9.1%
British Pound - 11.9%
Swedish Krona - 4.2%
Swiss Franc - 3.6%
⏳Created - 1973
Base Value - 100
Let me explain in simple words - If Dollar Index is 107, USD is expensive by 7%, which hurts emerging economies mostly an expensive USD puts pressure on their financial markets.
If Dollar Index is at 90, its cheaper by 10% than its fair value, which will again hurt the emerging economy as majority exports goes to US.
📚Historic Value
It reached an all-time high in 1984 at nearly 165, and an all-time low of around 70 in 2007. In the years since then, the U.S. dollar index has been relatively range bound, fluctuating between 90 and 110. As of tonight, its trading at 107.9, showing some signs of topping off.
The index is affected by macroeconomic factors, including inflation/deflation in the dollar and foreign currencies in the basket, as well as recessions and economic growth in those countries.
Last week when Japan raised its interest rate after decades, USD some weakness and slipped.
Dollar Index adapts to better represent those countries that the U.S. buys from and sells to most.
💡Interpreting the USDX
An index value of 120 suggests that the U.S. dollar has appreciated 20% versus the basket of currencies over a particular time period. Simply put, if the USDX goes up, that means the U.S. dollar is getting stronger in value compared to the other currencies.
Similarly, an index value of 80, indicating a fall of 20 from its initial value, implies a 20% depreciation in strength relative to the other currencies. The appreciation and depreciation results are a factor of the time period in question.
📊5 ways in which dollar index impacts us?
1⃣ Stock market
When the index falls, the rupee appreciates, and the dollar weakens. As a result, investors in the US see an opportunity for higher returns in India, which leads to an inflow of Foreign Institutional Investment (FII). Due to heavy inflows, there is heavy buying in the overall market, and the stock market turns bullish - goes up.
2⃣ Metal Price Change
If we look at historical data, we can conclude that gold prices are inversely related to the dollar index value. When the dollar index increases and the dollar strengthens, the gold price will fall. Gold gets imported into India in large quantities, and therefore it impacts the economy as a whole.
3⃣ Fuel Prices
India is the largest crude oil importer. The change in the dollar index affects crude oil prices and impacts us. When the dollar index rises, crude oil and other commodities become more expensive. It increases our import costs and widens our current account deficit. Also, it affects the profitability of the oil importers and refineries in India.
4⃣ Inflation
An increase in the dollar index makes the dollar strong and depreciates the Indian rupee's value. A weakened rupee makes imports costlier and impacts Indian company profitability due to increased production costs. Increased costs for companies mean companies have to increase the prices of goods and services, which leads to inflation. The overall Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is impacted and suffers a slowdown when the dollar strengthens.
5⃣ Companies with Dollar-Denominated Debt
Some Indian companies have borrowed Dollar-denominated debt for cost-effectiveness. These companies are directly affected when the dollar rises. A strong dollar proves costly to companies with dollar-denominated debt as they have to shell out more in rupees to repay their debt. It impacts the company's profitability and might lead to a financial crunch.
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Zen Technologies | Strong Q2 Performance 🇮🇳
Zen Technologies continues to strengthen its presence in India's defence sector, particularly in anti-drone systems. This can be the future of modern warfare
Key areas of its business
- Anti-drone systems to detect and neutralise hostile drones
- Indigenous drone and counter-drone technologies
- Combat simulators for all three verticals of defence
- Advanced weapon systems and battlefield training solutions
📊Q2 FY26 Results (YoY)
Revenue: Rs 345 Cr | Up 98.3%
EBITDA: Rs 132 Cr | Up 103.1%
Net Profit: Rs 90 Cr | Up 52.5%
EBITDA Margin: 38.3% vs 37.4%
Almost doubling revenue, more than doubling EBITDA and maintaining healthy margins
With the growing importance of drones and counter-drone systems in modern warfare, Zen is operating in a segment that deserves close attention
A strong set of numbers, backed by a business operating in an increasingly important area of India's defence ecosystem
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Our Diwali Portfolio 2025
Overall Performance: -9.6%
Will remain invested in the same set of stocks as fundamentals of stock have been holding well ❤️🩹
We will be publishing 5 new stocks for Diwali 🪔 Portfolio 2026
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The dip in gold and silver has triggered a shopping spree of jewellery across India🇮🇳
Value buying
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Diwali Stock Picks🪔 by Axis Securities
DCB Bank
Nephrocare Health Services
Indian Hotels
Ashok Leyland
Eternal
Coforge
Hindalco
Elecon Engineering
APL Apollo
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Reliance Industries - India's Biggest Growth Driver 📈
📜Key Points from Investor Presentation
- Q2 FY27 – A Strong Earnings Performance
A record quarter for Reliance, with strong momentum across its energy and digital businesses
📔Performance
- Revenue: Rs 3,62,268 Cr | +27.8% YoY
-EBITDA: Rs 62,409 Cr | +23.9% YoY
- PAT: Rs 29,550 Cr | +33.8% YoY
- H1 FY27 PAT crosses Rs 52,746 Cr
- Net debt declines to Rs 1,17,140 Cr from Rs 1,22,914 Cr QoQ ✅
🎆Business Highlights
1⃣ O2C: Record EBITDA of Rs 25,203 Cr, up 67.9% YoY. Strong refining margins, fuel cracks and petrochemical performance
2⃣ Digital/Jio: EBITDA up 17.7% to Rs 22,223 Cr. Subscriber base reaches 542.4 million, including 300 million 5G users. ARPU improves to Rs 218.8
3⃣ Retail: Revenue grows 6.4% to Rs 91,716 Cr. Grocery B2C online revenue surges 42% YoY, indicating strong digital commerce traction
4⃣Oil & Gas: EBITDA at Rs 4,901 Cr, with higher CBM volumes and condensate realisations partly offsetting lower KG-D6 production
🎖️Net debt/EBITDA improves to 0.47x from 0.57x in Q1
- Record earnings, strong cash generation, improving leverage and multiple growth engines
- Company is confident to continue performing strong despite global macros as diversification in business has helped company sail through adverse times
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Gold & Silver have crashed to historic lows !!
Most Investors missed out investing in 2008 & 2020 dips in markets
Will investors be finally capitalising on 2026 crash ?
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Silver crash in 2026 is now bigger than 2008
#Silver #CommodityInvesting
Investors are not selling physical silver !!
These are leveraged positions bought on higher levels of $75-120 aiming $200 on silver which did not go well
These purges are common on history of silver and most likely form the bottom
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Why is Silver falling today ?
Today's silver’s drop is tied to the Google and Intel selloffs via the broader AI-driven tech rout
Google’s 13% plunge (AI Mode hurting search ads + $9B cash burn) and Intel’s 25-30% crash (weak PC outlook from AI memory crunch) triggered risk-off liquidation, with investors dumping non-yielding silver to cover equity losses
Google registered biggest fall of 20 years and Intel is witnessing single largest sell off in 50+ years
#Silver #Google #Intel #Nasdaq
Silver is now down to $49.4, losing 60% of its value this year
This is one of the reasons are parents preferred simple real estate investments 😇
#Silver
Silver crash in 2026 is now bigger than 2008
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Coforge - 24 Months Strong Consolidation & Technical Breakout
Cmp: Rs 2050
Company has done well after its expansion in US
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A topline comparison btwn Google & TCS
TCS Q2 FY27 Earnings Highlights graphic modeled on Google earnings
Alphabet Q3 2026:
$127.6B revenue (+25% YoY)
Half-trillion run rate
Google Cloud +103%,
Gemini App 1B+ MAUs
~32B tokens/min (+40% QoQ)
YouTube Music/Premium 150M
Search +12%
TCS Q2 FY27
₹73,188 Cr revenue (+11.2% YoY / +2.8% CC)
AI annualized $3.1B (>10% of revenue, ~+19% QoQ)
TCV $9.6B, op. margin 24%, headcount ~598K
Alphabet shows explosive consumer + infrastructure AI scale (Cloud doubling, massive user/token growth). TCS shows steady IT services transition to AI (now double-digit share of revenue) with solid deal momentum but far lower top-line growth rates
Q3 is in the books! We’re now on a half-trillion annual revenue run rate, with Alphabet revenues growing at 25%.
- Our AI investments are driving overall Search query growth, including commercial queries - our YoY query growth rate is the highest it’s been in the last five years.
- Google Cloud revenue grew 103%, powered by extraordinary demand for our AI infrastructure and AI solutions. Our 1P model APIs now process nearly 32B tokens/min (up 40% QoQ).
- Strong momentum in model progress with Argon and Carbon leading the frontier, and Genie 4 our most advanced new world model yet.
Thanks to our partners and employees around the world. More to share on the call soon!
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Compund them over time.
Prepare for your tough times in your good times !!
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