Equity markets had a pretty good week and this strong momentum is expected to continue in coming days, says Vikas Jain, Senior Research Analyst at Reliance Securities. Among individual sectors, auto, private banks and energy stocks are expected to show strong performance in the next.

At 9:58 am, the Sensex was trading 258 points higher at 36,523 level with Nifty rising 75 points to 11,023 level. On January 29, Sensex and Nifty reached all time high levels of 36,443 and 11,171 levels, respectively on expectations from Union Budget and optimism over Q3 earnings.

Morgan Stanley pegged BSE Sensex earnings growth at 5 per cent, 23 per cent and 24 per cent for financial year 2018, fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2020, respectively.

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The stock market also faces key elections in BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Mizoram in second half of this year which will set the direction for general election next year.

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\"With significant cleansing of the book largely behind, we expect provisioning expenses to decline sharply, while gradual pick -up in loan growth/margins is expected to further boost earnings. We raise our FY19/20E earnings by 36%/12% and revise our price target to  Rs 365 (1.5x FY20E ABV for bank). Maintain Buy, \" brokerage Motilal Oswal said in its report.

The auto firm on Friday reported a 36.32% rise in net profit to Rs 1,175.47 crore led by robust sales across segments compared with net profit of Rs 862.25 crore during the last quarter of 2016-17.

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The strong inflow has pushed the asset base of equity mutual funds (MFs) by more than 6 per cent to Rs 8 lakh crore at the end of April from Rs 7.5 lakh crore in the preceding month.

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With an overhang of global and domestic cues, it looks like the equity markets may challenge on hand. Fiscal year 2018-19 is obviously not going to be a year of straightforward positive returns on the index.

\"Ever since RBI (Reserve Bank of India) cuts its inflation trajectory, the equities have done well. And if this trend of falling inflation and reduction in bond yields continue, good signs await the equity markets,\" said Vinod Nair, head of research at Geojit Financial Services.

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However, a sharp turnaround was seen in FPI inflows into debt markets in the just-concluded fiscal as foreign investors poured in a staggering Rs 1.2 lakh crore in the segment against a net outflow of about Rs 7,300 crore in 2016-17.

Have markets become more volatile or are they witnessing a minor correction that will bring the stocks down to comfortable valuation levels?

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