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2025 was a year of many contrasts for India’s stock market. The big hope for 2026 is of foreign investors coming back, as valuations temper and earnings growth picks up.

This is the first story in the special year-end series, where we speak to industry leaders about the year that went by and what to look out for in 2026.
At the start of 2025, frontline equity indices were already down nearly 10% from their lifetime highs in September 2024. A further slide followed, with a recovery of sorts beginning in early March 2025.
Since then, markets have gone on to hit new lifetime highs in November and December. Well…the two frontline indices have anyway. Mid- and small-cap indices, meanwhile, have not come close to their September 2024 highs, leaving …