According to the new takeover guidelines, if they buy 25 per cent or more, they will have to make an open offer for another 26 per cent.
Investment bankers generally laugh all the way to the bank once shares get listed on the bourses, but they may have to hang around a bit longer. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is planning to make the bankers managing an issue responsible for the end-use of issue proceeds.
There could possibly be some reduction in home/auto loan outgo.
Higher returns, more liquidity draw individual investors to savings accounts.
Till October 14 this year, FIIs were net sellers in equities at Rs 1,132 crore (Rs 11.32 billion) while their debt exposure stood at Rs 20,029 crore (Rs 200.29 billion). This is the first time since 2008 that FIIs are net sellers in equities.
For home buyers in Noida Extension things have just gone worse. While banks have decided not to disburse loans to residential properties in the area, including those that had no litigation against them, builders are threatening to charge a penalty if payments are not made according to the existing contracts.
Good growth prospects and reasonable valuations will help select mid-caps deliver superior returns, say experts.
Analysts believe there could be some pressure on banks' margins in the interim.
While TCS and HCL Tech remain the favourites of most analysts, the latter believe there could be more pain left for Infosys' stock.
Sebi had acted against 10 brokerages after over 10,000 investors failed to get shares in last year's Coal India IPO in spite of legitimate applications.
This makes stock-picking by retail investors difficult, but market experts say they need to understand that institutional players do not have a cookie-cutter approach to investing.
While most analysts had valued Reliance Capital's stake in Reliance Life Insurance at Rs. 285 per share, or about Rs. 7,000 crore, this deal values it at Rs. 468 per share of Reliance Capital, which is a huge premium.
While iGate leaps into the $1-billion club, the combined entity will have a larger offering, better pricing power and scope to improve margins. Nasdaq-listed software firm iGate's acquisition of Patni Computer Systems was received positively by the market. On a day when the Sensex was down 2.4 per cent, the Patni scrip closed 0.8 per cent higher at Rs 463.85.
Bank to argue with the Reserve Bank that new norms don't apply to floating rate schemes.
The loss followed a massive fraud allegedly committed by Shivaraj Puri, a relationship manager at the bank's Gurgaon branch.
Banks and housing finance firms may seek legal mortgage as well as completion guarantee clause.
Rising competition and costs are likely to keep profitability of brokerage firms under pressure, leading to consolidation.
Mutual funds breathed easy today, with the flow into liquid and liquid-plus schemes soaring to Rs 30,000-35,000 crore. This is in contrast to the situation over the past few days when a liquidity squeeze caused by the Coal India issue soaking up cash forced companies and banks to withdraw money from mutual funds.
Divide your investments properly for self-consumption, growth and income. Life will be simpler.
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.
