L&T partners with NVIDIA, Adani Ports' MoU with Port of Marseille Fos, & more - Groww Digest
Wednesday, 18 February 2026
Markets opened below yesterday’s closing point.
All sectors’ stocks rose today except for the IT stocks. Metal stocks and PSU bank stocks rose the most.
Global markets: US markets and most Asian markets rose. European markets rose (as of 6 pm IST).
Note: Kwality Wall’s India is considered as part of Nifty 50 by the NSE, post its demerger from Hindustan Unilever. Hence, it will be part of the Top Gainers/Losers section until the next revision by the NSE.
News
The UK’s annual inflation rate fell to 3% in Jan (vs 3.4% in Dec).
The RBI has proposed draft norms to give authorised banks and dealers more flexibility in foreign exchange transactions for hedging risks, managing balance sheets and market-making.
Stocks Updates
L&T: will partner with NVIDIA to build India’s largest gigawatt-scale AI data center infrastructure.
Adani Ports: and the Port of Marseille Fos signed an MoU to strengthen India-Europe trade connectivity under the IMEC (India-Middle East-Europe Economic) corridor.
Adani Green: incorporated Skyspin Energy Ltd as a wholly owned step-down subsidiary to develop renewable power projects.
Zydus Lifesciences: received USFDA approval for Bosentan oral suspension tablets to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension in children.
Word of the Day
Credit Score
It is an indicator of your ability to pay back a loan on time
It measures your creditworthiness, or how worthy you are of receiving credit.
A Credit Rating Agency assigns a 3 digit score to any entity or a person who engages in a financial transaction involving credit.
The higher your credit score, the higher are your chances of getting a loan from the bank at lower interest rates (and vice versa).
The score is calculated considering various factors like repayment histories across different debts, number of loans, credit balance, etc.
6 Day Course
Theme: mistakes made by experienced investors
Day 3: Wednesday
Lucky streak: in stock markets, cycles are often very long. It takes many years for an investor to experience both good periods and bad periods.
Often it so happens that investors experience the stock markets for 3-4 years which by coincidence are good periods.
In such periods, the markets might be on a bull run. During bull runs, some strategies work well.
An investor using such strategies might mistakenly believe that he has mastered making money in the markets.
Many of these strategies backfire in bear markets.
In short, investors often mistake luck for their own investing skill.
This is hard to catch too since many people love talking to others about their wins. The same people tend to keep mum when they suffer losses.
Featured Question
Q. “Shall I continue my SIP in bull market as I know I will always get less units for more price or shall I wait till it starts bearish?”
The challenge is always not knowing the future.
You do not know if the markets will continue rising, or fall. You also do not know how long a bull or bear run will last.
This is why trying to time your investments does not work out.
You might assume that you can pause your SIPs during bull runs.
But what if the bull run continues for a very long time? Then when a bear market comes eventually, it might still not fall to the older levels.
Which means, you will never get a chance to get units at the current price again.
Similar situations can also occur during bear markets where you might invest thinking the markets would recover soon but the markets continue falling for a longer period of time.
The idea behind doing SIPs is to not worry about these movements.
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