Hemmed in by the world’s strictest stay-at-home measures, Raunaq Singh, owner of a clothes store in India’s capital of New Delhi, has begun to dabble in the nation’s equities. “I had been thinking about it in the past few months, but I had a busy schedule," said the 27-year-old, who split ₹1,60,000 ($2,117) between a couple of stocks over the past month. “There was no better opportunity than this to open a trading account." Singh joins a growing contingent of individuals across the globe who are getting their feet wet in the stock market as social-distancing rules keep them at home.
About 1.2 million new accounts were opened with the Central Depository Services (India) Ltd. in March and April, up from a combined 900,000 in the first two