A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that the total mobilisation through share issues (including rights, initial and follow-on issues) will be at least Rs 1.04 lakh crore (Rs 1.04 trillion).
India's well-known investors who are known for their Midas touch have spotted an opportunity in bio-fuel, betting big on ethanol, bio-mass and even bio-fuel equipment makers in India and other parts of the globe.
International brokerages, especially those which have made recent entry into the domestic market, are lining up to acquire the institutional broking business of the city-based Brics Securities.
The domestic mutual funds such as Reliance Mutual Fund and Tata Asset Management Company are in advanced talks with global fund houses and investment advisors, in an attempt to offer global investment products to their Indian investors.
The Indian banking sector has overcome concerns pertaining to the rising cost of funds and an increase in provisioning requirements under the new RBI norms, to post a healthy rise in net interest income during the quarter ended March 2007.
Huge share offerings may lead to record inflow in 2007.
Over 500 minority shareholders of realty major DLF have missed out on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become 'crorepatis' overnight.
Reliance Industries Limited, the country's largest private sector company, is raising $2 billion through a 10-year overseas syndicated loan for funding its oil and gas exploration in the D6 block of the Krishna-Godawari basin.
But contrary to conventional wisdom, the share of hedge funds in total PN investments in the Indian stock markets could be as little as 8-9 per cent.
The Sun, the flagship publication of Murdoch's News Corporation, is in talks with Maran's Sun group to launch an English tabloid in the country.
The total revenues and net profit of the top six Indian telecom players, Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, BSNL, Hutchison Essar, MTNL and Idea Cellular, more than doubled during the last two years.
"Our order (over share price manipulation on listing day) is only interim in nature. We are probing further and you can expect more orders in this case," said the official on condition of anonymity.
Indian IT firms have piled up net cash in excess of Rs 20,000 crore
Wipro, Satyam join TCS, Infosys in beating rupee blues.
They prefer foreign markets owing to comparatively lower margins than Indian exchanges.
Growing business opportunities fuelled by a robust economy and an increasing number of private equity investors are prompting investment bankers to quit their jobs and turn entrepreneurs.
Given the uncertainty on the US economic outlook, the rising rupee, and the lack of clarity on imposition of fringe benefit tax on stock options, analysts believe the companies may strike a note of caution on FY08 earnings.
The move is expected to cut into the business of rival Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).
The National Stock Exchange is chalking out a strategy to launch a separate trading platform for small and medium companies.
A cluster of high networth investors from Ireland is looking at private equity investments of at least 200 million pounds sterling (about $ 395 million) in high-growth companies across real-estate, IT and education sectors.