Share of SGX Nifty in total Nifty futures surges to 40% from 8% a year ago.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India is watching trends in the domestic stock market, after the capital market regulators in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia imposed a temporary ban on short-selling of financial stocks.
Share prices of the two top stock exchanges - the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange - are expected to rise after the Securities and Exchange Board of India proposed to allow domestic institutional investors, insurance firms and banks to hold up to 15 per cent stake in these exchanges as against the current limit of 5 per cent.
Over 100 chemical storage tanks built at the Pirpav jetty near Chembur have been operating without approvals from the ministry of environment and forests for over 18 years. Each of these tanks has an average capacity of 200,000 kilolitres of oil.
According to the scheme, the deposit of Rs 10 lakh (Rs 1 million) for trading and up to Rs 20 lakh (Rs 2 million) for clearing members would be waived for already-registered members of the MCX, BSE, Foreign Exchange Dealers' Association of India, National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange and NSE, who choose to enroll before September 6.
Both equity benchmarks--the Sensex of the Bombay Stock Exchange and the Nifty of the National Stock Exchange-- have gained 14 per cent and 12 per cent, respectively, as the USDX rose by a quick 7.83 per cent in over a month. It touched a high of 77.50 on August 26.
On August 7, the Reserve Bank of India and the Securities and Exchange Board of India cleared the guidelines for currency futures trading. Exactly six days later, the National Stock Exchange got the market regulator's approval to start such trading and is scheduled to kick off currency futures this Friday.
One of the biggest defaulters of Ahmedabad-based Madhavpura Mercantile Co-operative Bank, stock broker Ketan Vinaychandra Parekh has settled his dues with the bank by paying Rs 26 crore a fortnight ago, revealed informed sources. The so called 'big-bull' of the stock market has paid a whopping Rs 396 crore in less than two years to MMCB.
The Bombay Stock Exchange has called off its plan to acquire 26 per cent in the Ahmedabad-based National Multi Commodity Exchange. The deal was terminated just before the resignation of BSE Managing Director and CEO Rajnikant Patel.
India Inc is seeing yet another family feud - this time between Gujarat NRE Coke founder Girdhari Lal Jagatramka and his son-law, Ratan Lal Tamakhuwala, who owns Austral Coke.
Bets of nearly Rs 500 crore have been accepted in the satta bazaar or the illegal betting market over the past two days, with punters riding high on odds that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government will survive a confidence or trust vote in Parliament.
Raut Vijay, current managing director of CDSL, said, "We have received the letter from Daga. The board would go through the entire matter and decide accordingly." Prior to joining CDSL in November 2001, Daga was the executive director (business development) at Unit Trust of India (UTI) during the CSE payment crisis. Broker Ketan Parekh made huge share purchases through his associates before March 2001, with CSE-listed DSQ Software being a favourite.
Several Ahmedabad-based stock brokers are playing a key role in arranging dummy investors. The 'investors' apply for their full quota of shares. After allotment, they transfer the shares to the accounts of the brokers fronting for the operators in exchange for a 2.5 per cent commission.
The Bombay Stock Exchange is set to see a reshuffle in its board of directors, the first since the country's oldest bourse was demutualised and became a limited company last year. The reshuffle, details of which are yet to be discussed, is widely believed to be at the behest of market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India.
Kolkata-based personal care products maker Emami, which made a hostile takeover bid for Zandu Pharmaceuticals, on Friday forced the latter to withdraw a plan to offer preferential shares to its promoters.Zandu had sent notice to the Bombay Stock Exchange late on Thursday evening saying its board would meet to discuss a preferential share issue to the promoters and directors.Emami lawyers swung into action and sent legal notice early on Friday to Zandu's board.
Market participants hammered the Emami stock on anticipation that the company would have to fight an intense battle with the Parikhs, one of the promoter groups in Zandu, who are planning to stay put.
Sylph Technologies stock rises 100,000% to Rs 800 on re-listing.
At least four top brokerages -- Religare Enterprise, Edelweiss Capital, Emkay Shares and Stocks and Modern Securities -- have delayed their fourth quarter results.
Prithvi Haldia, managing director of Prime Database, a company tracking corporate and primary market developments, is however of the view that primary markets usually follow the secondary market. IPOs have suffered mainly as the timing was not right.
Ajay Bagga, CEO, Lotus India Mutual Fund, feels the government should have taken timely action to control inflation. He feels that the recent fall is not a bull-market correction but a serious downturn that could last for about six to eight months. He said the government cannot afford to keep interest rates this high. It is likely to cut rates once the inflation moderates. Meanwhile the rupee will be allowed to appreciate to compensate for the rise in global commodity prices.
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