Interview with Richard Rekhy, chief executive officer of KPMG India.
It will improve the purchasing power of many buyers, but high interest payout will be a deterrent.
Both the exchanges tgether claim 2 million new participants this year till date.
Fresh worries for NTPC and NMDC auctions after the tepid response to the discount pricing of Hindustan Copper's stake sale.
After the fiasco in March this year over the share sale in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation ( ONGC ), the government has softened its stand over the pricing.
Ashish Kumar Chauhan, who was appointed BSE's full-time chief executive officer and managing director early this month, has his job cut out - to steer the country's oldest stock exchange through challenging times and get it listed.
Promoter stake rises seven per cent in revised filing.
Odds on Romney rose to as high as Rs 20 against every Rupee and fell to as low as five paise on Obama.
He sold 8.84% stake for Rs 55 crore based on average stock price in September quarter.
Anti-corruption-activist-turned -politician Arvind Kejriwal has emerged as the 'new theme' for stock market traders.
The government is trying to send a signal it wants to stimulate the economy and the stock market.
"We in the satta bazaar trust Sonia Gandhi's manoeuvring skills. Now that it has become a major ego issue for the UPA, Mamata will be isolated. UPA may manage to get Mukherjee elected as President with the help of Mayawati and other smaller parties," said a bookie from Delhi
The General Anti-Avoidance Rule (GAAR) may have been deferred for a year but many foreign institutional investors (FIIs) do not want to take chances. They are shifting their trading positions to Singapore, where derivatives of India's key equity index, the Nifty, are listed.
In the past month, when the Essel Group started picking up shares of the company, IVRCL's stock has risen 31 per cent, a rare feat in a market where infrastructure stocks have been suffering due to slow movement in projects and high interest burden.
Stock indices slip on fears that income tax department will go after offshore derivatives
The ITAT is mulling e-courts, or simply hearing of cases through webcast, to clear the backlog of cases in smaller towns.
The exchange granted 1.96 million stock options under two employee stock option (Esop) schemes in 2006 and 2008 to those eligible, according to regulatory filings.
After a long lull, India's equity primary market is set to witness some activity. The Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX) is set to hit the market with its initial public offer (IPO) in February. The investment banking circles are already buzzing with talks about valuation. Experts say, if priced well the issue could pump life into the moribund IPO market.
There could possibly be some reduction in home/auto loan outgo.
It is a Catch-22 situation for foreign institutional investors (FIIs) playing Indian markets. Even while stock markets are trading at attractive valuations, a sharper-than-expected slide in the rupee against the US dollar is keeping them away, say analysts.
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