The Week That Was: August 4 – August 8, 2025

 📉 The Week That Was: August 4 – August 8, 2025

The markets had yet another “not today, Satan” kind of week.

• Sensex ended at 79,857.79 (down ~742–765 points, or about –0.95%).

• Nifty 50? Same vibe. Slipped to 24,363.30 (–202 points), making this the 6th straight weekly fall — the longest losing streak since April 2020. Someone please get Nifty a motivational podcast. 🎧😭

Sector report card: IT and Pharma fell ~0.7–0.9%, Financials and Energy followed suit, and small/mid-caps joined the sulk parade.

Why the gloom?

• Trump Tariff Tsunami 🌊🇺🇸: Out of nowhere, the U.S. slapped a 50% duty on Indian exports. That’s not just a trade barrier — that’s a brick wall.

• Foreign investors kept ghosting Indian markets. 👻💸

• Q1 results? Softer than a day-old gulab jamun.

• Stronger USD — because why not make imports even pricier?

Rare happy headlines:

• LIC jumped ~5% on solid earnings. The Life Insurance Corporation showing it’s still got life. 💪

• AU Small Finance Bank rose ~2% after getting the RBI’s blessing to become a universal bank. 🚀

• Bharti Airtel dropped ~3% thanks to a chunky block deal.

Global Markets 🌍

If you thought India had it bad, the rest of the world wasn’t exactly having a spa day either.

• Equity funds saw $7.8 bn walk out the door for the 2nd week straight. Investors basically said, “No thanks, I’ll take cash.” 💵

• Money market funds got a whopping $135 bn inflow — biggest since January — because apparently, parking money in boring safe havens is back in fashion. 🏦

• Bond funds were hot too, especially short-term, euro-denominated, and high-yield ones.

Global anxiety triggers:

• Trump slapped a 39% tariff on Swiss gold 🪙🇨🇭 (guess Swiss watches weren’t expensive enough).

• Looming Trump–Putin summit 🤝 and a possible China tariff truce extension kept traders on edge.

Bottom line:

📉 India: Markets in “meh” mode — longest losing streak in 5 years. LIC and AU Bank the only cheerleaders.
🌍 Global: Risk-off mood everywhere. Equities out, safe havens in. Trade tensions and politics ruled the headlines.

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