Following multiple failed attempts this week to rally back strongly, investors remain hesitant to plow heavily back into shares of growth stocks and there’s still no major signs that the pressure on technology companies will abate anytime soon.

A familiar tune played out in the market Friday: technology stocks staged a mini rebound and at almost exactly the same time, Bitcoin reversed course too, spotlighting the cryptocurrency’s tendency to move in lockstep with other risk assets.

Investors emboldened by a strategy that worked all of last year plowed more than $1 billion into tech in recent days, with nearly every other sector also getting deposits. JPMorgan Chase & Co. said it saw the strongest retail flows on record, with at-home traders adding $5.9 billion to equities in the week through Tuesday.

While the new-age companies have promising growth prospects, they continue to burn cash and have no clear path to profitability

According to the website, now FDs with tenure between 2 years 1 day and 3 years will earn 5.2%, 3 year 1 day and 5 years will fetch 5.4% and 5 years 1 day and 10 years will fetch 5.6%.

“This quarter is going to be a tough one for metals because they will not be able to pass to on the costs.”

Banks ended the calendar year with higher credit growth of 9.2 per cent as of December 31 on a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis compared to 6.6 per cent growth a year ago. Outstanding loans amounted to Rs 116.8 lakh crore. Significantly, loans rose Rs 3.69 lakh crore during the last fortnight of the calendar year ending December, according to the latest data released by the Reserve Bank of India.

​Debt instruments with fixed or determinable payments and fixed maturity with the intent of holding till maturity shall be classified under held to maturity (HTM). Non-SLR securities such as corporate bonds will henceforth not be permitted to be held in HTM.

HCL Technologies clocks dollar revenue growth of 7.6% in the December quarter. That’s higher than 7% dollar revenue growth clocked by Infosys, 4% by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and 2.3% by Wipro.

Other suggestions include reduction in the goods and services tax (GST) for a limited duration to spur demand, front-loading of transfers to states, income-enhancing or support measures, and subsidised credit to small and medium enterprises and contact-intensive sectors.