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SumanSpeaks Independent Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence · Estd 2006 Market Intelligence · FII Sector Flows The Money Is Back. But It Isn't Chasing The Old Trade. ₹16,621 crore of fresh FII money entered Indian equities in just the first fortnight of August 2026 — and financials, autos and consumption stocks captured almost all of it, while IT quietly staged one of its most interesting comebacks of the year. For most of 2026, Foreign Institutional Investors were simply not in the room. Between roughly March and June, FIIs pulled out close to ₹2.6 lakh crore from Indian equities. The trigger was the US-Iran conflict and the oil-price shock that followed it. Global funds simply de-risked out of emerging markets, India included. That phase is now behind us. FIIs turned net buyers in July 2026, investing...
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SumanSpeaks Independent Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence · Estd 2006 Market Intelligence · FII Sector Flows The Money Is Back. But It Isn't Chasing The Old Trade. ₹16,621 crore of fresh FII money entered Indian equities in just the first fortnight of August 2026 — and financials, autos and consumption stocks captured almost all of it, while IT quietly staged one of its most interesting comebacks of the year. For most of 2026, Foreign Institutional Investors were simply not in the room. Between roughly March and June, FIIs pulled out close to ₹2.6 lakh crore from Indian equities. The trigger was the US-Iran conflict and the oil-price shock that followed it. Global funds simply de-risked out of emerging markets, India included. That phase is now behind us. FIIs turned net buyers in July 2026, investing...
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SumanSpeaks Independent Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence · Estd 2006 Banking & Market Strategy Banks Are Firing on All Cylinders. A ₹1.25 Lakh Crore IPO Storm Is Coming for Everyone Else. SBI's Q1FY27 scorecard confirms what credit data has been signalling for months — PSU banks are genuinely healthier. But a record ₹68,000 crore of IPO issuance, with another ₹1.25 lakh crore waiting in the wings, is pulling liquidity away from the very stocks delivering the strongest earnings in years. India's equity market is currently telling two stories at once. The banking sector's underlying fundamentals have rarely looked better — credit growth is broad-based, balance sheets are clean, and provisioning buffers are the strongest in decades. At the same time, the primary market is absorbing capital at a pace few anticipated even six months ago, and that is beginning to show up in how secondary-market stocks trade. Neither story cancels ...
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SumanSpeaks Independent Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence · Estd 2006  Wind Energy · Equity Research Suzlon Energy: The Data Centre Tailwind Meets A Cleaner Balance Sheet FY26 revenue up 54% to ₹16,679 crore, profit up 53% to ₹3,163 crore, and a decade-old ₹18,418 crore legacy accounting overhang finally cleared through an NCLT scheme. Every brokerage tracking the stock currently rates it Buy or better. Suzlon Energy Ltd (₹46.80) has had noisy years before. This one is different. The company just posted its strongest annual performance in its post-restructuring history, cleared a long-pending balance sheet overhang, and now sits directly in the path of a state-mandated renewable power buildout worth ₹6 lakh crore. Gujarat's new Data Centre Policy requires large data centres to source at least 51% of their power from renewables. India's largest wind energy company, sitting in the same state with 4.5 GW of manufacturing capacity, is not...
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SumanSpeaks Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence · Estd 2006 Telecom · One Year Later Vodafone Idea: From ₹6.71 To ₹13.94 The Government Delivered. Will Vi Seize The Moment? The stock has more than doubled since our August 2025 note. The AGR overhang has genuinely eased. But not every number in the latest results is quite as clean as the headline loss figure suggests — and that nuance matters for what comes next. 1 A Year Since ₹6.71 On August 27, 2025, we discussed Vodafone Idea Ltd (VIL) on SumanSpeaksPlus at ₹6.71, when the stock was priced almost entirely for survival risk rather than operating performance. As of August 20, 2026, VIL trades near ₹13.98, having touched a 52-week high of ₹15.34 — a gain of roughly 108% from the level we discussed, and a market capitalisation of about ₹1.52 lakh crore. The survival question that dominated the earlier piece has genuinely receded. What replaces it is a narrower, more t...
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SumanSpeaks Capital Markets & Geopolitical Intelligence · Estd 2006 Banking · Balance Sheet Deep Dive ₹500 Crore Insurance Stake. ₹7,000 Crore War Chest. One Credit Card Gamble. Inside Central Bank's Big Pivot Wealth management, credit cards, cash management, an insurance stake, a GIFT City unit — and a board-approved ₹7,000 crore capital raise sitting quietly behind all of it. We've covered Central Bank's turnaround and its CRISIL upgrade already. This piece does the arithmetic the announcement itself didn't. 1 Start With The Baseline, Not The Announcement MD & CEO Kalyan Kumar told PTI that the Central Bank of India Ltd (₹31. 29) will enter wealth management and credit cards in H2 FY27, following board approval and an RFP process to onboard partners. A corporate cash management product is targeted for launch around August, foreign exchange operations are being centralised around the bank's LC/LG bus...

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