Small-Cap Misery Seen Ending in India Thanks to Rate Cuts

The Delhi Stock Exchange in New Delhi, India

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Just 15 stocks have accounted for almost all the $51 billion climb in India’s stock market this year. Now the smaller fry might be about to join the party.

“We have given a call to our clients to start accumulating small and mid-caps,” said Nilesh Shah, chief executive officer at Kotak Asset Management Co., who helps oversee $25 billion in assets. “Somewhere here the bottom is being formed.”