Opening Recap
Market Pulse: Tech stocks drifted after TCS shares hit a five-year low, dragging overall IT sentiment into a funk, while energy names slipped and crypto volumes stalled amid a risk-off mood.
Key Movers: TCS's 44% pullback headline in The Times of India echoed panic selling, ONGC shares edged down 4% despite meeting estimates per Business Standard, and Bitcoin spot volume spiked then cooled according to Bitcoinist.
Macro & Politics: Working-class backlash—described as feeling “treated like scum” in The Quietus interview—signals regulators may face populist pressure, while Greece’s saltworks privatization under Tsipras raises policy U-turn risk for foreign investors in Protothema.gr.
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Unfiltered Market Commentary
Everyone’s ignoring how the working-class backlash—brutally described as “treated like scum” in the Quietus interview—can spark populist tax hikes or worker-protection rules that squeeze corporate margins. Layer on Athens’ saltworks privatization drama from Protothema.gr, and you’ve got policy whiplash primed to blindside markets.
What ties the IT selloff to the crypto tremors? According to the Times of India, IT names plunged on panic selling, while Bitcoinist reports that spot volume fizzled after the spike. Both stories scream liquidity thirst—when traders run for the exits, even quality names get caught in the rush.
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TCS shares crash 44% from peak to hit over 5-year low. More pain left for IT bellwether?
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