Pritam Deuskar on AI, Defence & 2026 Market Outlook
The Wealthyvia Newsletter On altitude and instruments: valuation in a momentum age, the true moats of the intelligence race, and the decade of metal now dawning between Europe and India. Markets after the storm: expensive, exuberant, and quietly changing regime Thirty years at this desk — through Harshad Mehta's Bombay, the Asian crisis, the dot-com fever, Lehman, the taper tantrum, the pandemic, and now the intelligence boom — have taught me one discipline above all: separate the weather from the climate . The weather this quarter is a relief rally. The ceasefire in West Asia has held; the Strait has reopened to convoyed traffic; crude has retreated from its panic highs; and equities have staged the kind of V-shaped recovery that persuades the impatient that risk itself was an illusion. The climate, however, is something else entirely — and it is the climate that compounds. Consider the instrument panel. The world's largest equity market trades near 20x ...