The Week That Was (Aug 25–29)

📉 The Week That Was (Aug 25–29)

If the previous week was a Bollywood rom-com, this last week was a suspense thriller 🎬—starting with romance (Fed love letters 💌 promising rate cuts), climaxing with betrayal (50% U.S. tariffs 😱), and ending with heartbreak (weekly losses 💔).

Let’s roll the tape ⬇️

🎇 Monday: Love is in the Air

Markets opened the week like newlyweds on their honeymoon 🥂.

Sensex: +0.4% (81,635.91)
Nifty: +0.39% (24,967.75)

IT stocks—TCS, Infosys, HCL Tech—were grooving like Govinda in a neon shirt 🕺🎶, fuelled by Fed rate-cut optimism. Metals and Realty also joined the party, because hey, who doesn’t like cheap money?

🌩️ Mid-Week Meltdown

By Tuesday, the party DJ pulled the plug 🔌.

Nifty crashed 1.02% to 24,712, Sensex down 1.04% to 80,786—the worst day in 3 months 😵.
Tariff tensions built up faster than a monsoon traffic jam 🚗🚙🚕.

Thursday wasn’t kinder:

Nifty slipped to 24,500.9, Sensex to 80,080.57.
The new 50% U.S. tariffs hit harder than extra-spicy pani puri 🌶️🥵, FIIs ran for the exit 🚪, and technical charts looked scarier than a horror movie jump scare 👻📉.

🥴 Friday: Confused & Clueless

Friday felt like waking up after binge-watching an entire series on Netflix—tired, confused, and wondering why did I do this? 😵‍💫

Nifty closed at 24,426.85 (–0.3%),
Sensex: –0.34% around 80,067.

For the week, both lost ~1.8%. August became the second straight month of red ink (Nifty –1.4%, Sensex –1.7%). Reliance’s AGM didn’t inspire confidence, and tariff fears loomed larger than a wedding buffet bill 🍛.

FMCG & autos showed some resilience 💪—because GST reform whispers can keep even nervous investors calm (and biscuits always sell 🍪).

🌍 Global Scene: Investors Play Hide-and-Seek

Meanwhile, global investors were in full “risk-off” mode 🚧:

Equity funds inflows shrank to just $2.96 bn, the lowest since early August 🪫.
But financial funds got love ❤️ with $1.52 bn inflows (largest in 8 months!).
Gold glittered at $556 m inflows ✨, Tech funds pocketed $553 m 💻.
Bond funds stole the show, gobbling $14.4 bn 🤓📜—marking a 19-week inflow streak!

Clearly, bonds are the comfort food of finance 🍲—boring, but reliable.

🎬 Closing Credits:

From Monday’s champagne to Friday’s hangover 🥂➡️🤕, this week reminded us that markets are emotional creatures—swinging between hope and horror faster than a soap opera plot twist 📺.

Moral of the story?
👉 Tariffs can spoil a rally faster than rain on Ganesh Chaturthi visarjan 🌧️🐘.
👉 IT may shine one day, sulk the next 🤖.
👉 And if in doubt, investors will always run back to the safety of bonds like mom’s dal-chawal 🍛.

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