While stock exchanges worldwide are consolidating, not much action is happening in India due to the cap on equity holding in stock exchanges.
G-20, the grouping of developed and emerging market economies, will focus on food security but issues concerning India like rising prices of vegetables may not come up for discussions at a meeting in Paris next week.
The finance ministry said it would wait for RBI guidelines, a development which will provide much relief to ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank. Both are already known as Foreign Owned Indians Controlled entities, after foreign investment in them rose much above 50 per cent, following new norms of calculations by the commerce ministry.
The Madras High Court order for closure of over 700 dyeing and knitting units in Tirupur may trigger huge loan defaults. Repayment of loans worth about Rs 20,000 crore would be hit if operations came to a halt, said Tirupur Exporters Association President A Sakthivel.
The finance ministry seems to be gung ho about economic growth next financial year. It may peg this at nine per cent for 2011-12 in the Economic Survey, likely to be tabled in Parliament on February 25, even as the Reserve bank of India (RBI) hinted at a lower figure.
As the debate on revealing names of those who had stashed money abroad was hotting up, a Parliamentary panel grilled finance ministry officials on why the confidentiality clause was put in tax treaties in the first place.
Amid decelerating manufacturing growth, the Reserve Bank wants the government to come out with measures in the Budget to give a boost to the sector, which can employ surplus labour from agriculture.
In December 2010, Mumbai-based Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies received an A*** grading by credit rating agency Crisil.
The government is considering a common appellate authority for insurance and all instruments traded on the stock or commodity exchanges. This comes after the formation of the Financial Stability Development Council, a statutory body to coordinate the functioning of financial market regulators.
After its various corrections since Diwali, the stock market is expected to settle and consolidate in the next few days, with most uncertainties thought to have been priced in. That applies to the telecom scam-related implications, too, as long as its toll does not go beyond ministers and no more bad news comes from European countries. Most players believe there are several good stocks at attractive valuations.
Investment banking sources said players with leveraged positions widely used this instrument. Even several foreign investors disallowed from investing in the market for failing to comply with regulatory norms have been using the PN route.
Stung by the controversy over the sudden sacking of the Managing Director at India's largest microfinance institution, SKS Microfinance, lenders have decided to raise corporate governance issues at board meetings of other MFIs.
The Cabinet cleared amendments to the Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act, giving the FMC autonomy and including various provisions aimed at developing the market. Business Standard spoke to Khatua on how the amendments will impact the markets once it comes into force.
Brokerages will soon have to send the brief details of every transaction in an investor's account to his email address.
The issue of allowing trading in indices such as the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) is being considered by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
Indiabulls has offered to sell 26 per cent of its stake in the year-old Indian Commodity Exchange to an ADAG group company.
The market regulator is working in association with exchanges and fund houses to iron out the technical aspects of such a system. According to the sources, a series of meetings have already taken place.
Will get powers to levy fines and penalties and allow options trading in commodities.
Banks argued that the competition to import gold on behalf of jewellers is increasing.
There are just 10 mn MF investors compared to 60 mn homes with life insurance.
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