“It hurts. It’s irritating. You want to be [left] alone,” says Jagdish, a 39-year-old IT systems manager, whose dreams of buying a new house were shattered after he lost a small fortune gambling in India’s stockmarket. Even before President Donald Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs shook global markets, the Indian stockmarket had been on a rollercoaster. The benchmark BSE Sensex is down 11% from its peak in September last year.
Indians are losing big on the stockmarket
Apr 16, 2025
