The retail participation in Indian stock markets is rising, says a SBI report, pointing out that 44.7 lakh retails investor accounts have been added during the two months of this fiscal.
With the onset of pandemic and subsequent lockdown, household financial savings showed a significant jump in Q1 FY21, and then a sharp moderation in Q2 FY21, says the SBI report.
2) With key repo rate at 4%, the FD rates vary from 2.9% to 5.4 for different tenures .
6) There has been significant increase in the market capitalization in stock markets across the world in the last one year.