Sebi's go-to consultant for legal issues works a 16-hour day but yearns to play with his two-year-old grandson.
The Bombay Stock Exchange is in the process of listing Sensex futures on Europe's largest stock exchange by market value, the Frankfurt-based Deutsche Borse AG.
In an interview with Business Standard, Jalan, who has also been a member of the Rajya Sabha, speaks on a wide range of issues concerning the markets
But big brokerages see no problem with Sebi panel's recommendations.
With the Supreme Court likely to announce its judgement on the gas price tussle between Ambani brothers next week, the share price of Reliance Industries Ltd has taken a sharp knock while Reliance Natural Resources Ltd witnessed a spike.
Soros has bid for the BSE stake, held by the embattled Dubai Financial Group LLC, through Soros Fund Management LLC, and Kaiser has done so through private equity fund, Argonaut.
S Ramadorai, vice-chairman of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is set to become non-executive chairman of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) following the exit of Jagdish Capoor last week on health grounds.Ramadorai will join BSE board on Monday and assume the role of chairman later.
Market participants say the focus of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will be on fiscal deficit, more so in the wake of the recent debt crisis in some Europeon countries.
Till a few years ago, dealing rooms used to bustle with activity on the day the Union Budget was presented. Dealers and analysts had to report to work early and those who were part of the institutional desk were flooded with calls from Hong Kong and Singapore-based deep pocketed clients.
With the stock markets falling, four initial public offers (IPOs) that opened this week are facing rough times and finding it difficult to get investors.
A significant rise in trading in small and mid-cap stocks over the past three months has pushed up the market share of the Bombay Stock Exchange by over 3 percentage points in the cash segment of the equity market.
India's premium benchmark equity index, the S&P CNX Nifty, also the fastest growing index on SGX, will be traded for 16 hours on that exchange, compared to the six-and-a-half hours that it traded on the National Stock Exchange in India. The SGX will be traded from 6.30 am to 10.30 pm IST.
From a premium benchmark index stock to a penny stock and now back to the mid-cap space, the bounce-back has surprised even seasoned market players, though most of them are still wary of taking a call on the stock.
For starters, the morning meetings at brokerages have been advanced to 8-8.15.
After the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Brokers Forum, the Association of National Stock Exchange Members of India (ANMI) has decided to approach the government and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on extension of trading hours from January 4.
Short selling, also known as shorting or going short, is the practice of selling assets, usually securities, that have been borrowed from a third party (usually a broker) with the intention of buying identical assets back at a later date to return to the lender.
There has been a rise in the number of cases of stock market manipulation and price rigging, according to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).
Charitable trusts, whether temples, churches or mosques, NGOs, educational institutions or societies, if registered as non-profit organisations, will not only have to disclose the source of their funds, but also be scrutinised for large monetary transactions. The change has been done by an amendment to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) 2002, notified in the Official Gazette on November 12, to bring NPOs under the purview of the law.
While MCX-SX is still waiting for regulatory approval to host equity trading, BSE has been struggling to maintain its 30 per cent market share in the cash segment.
The revival of the initial public offer market has prompted brokerages to re-start margin funding, a process by which they finance high net worth clients to subscribe to new issues.
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