Amidst speculation about the whereabouts of the husband of the woman who allegedly committed suicide in the Bahamas complaining of torture for dowry, the Gurgaon police have sought permission to go the United States for investigation into her personal computer.
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The Sensex ended at 16,877, weaker by 220 points and the Nifty closed at 5,033, lower by 72 points.
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With the bulls staging a rally at Dalal Street, Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) are likely to ramp up their investments in Indian stocks significantly in the coming days, analysts say.
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'Kejriwal has given not only Modi and Shah some food for thought, but also to jaded Opposition leaders who must now wonder whether taking on the BJP's majoritarianism by the horns, as they have been doing so far, is the appropriate strategy in such extraordinary times,' notes M K Bhadrakumar.
A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party released a CD targetting Robert Vadra and the land deals, the Congress joined the CD war, releasing one showing BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in pictures with one Afroz Fatta, who was arrested in connection to a Rs 1,000 crore hawala racket and dared him to submit himself to an independent probe.
We look at strong companies. We tell them to conserve liquidity and conserve cash so that they can survive this period of downturn and come out stronger, says Shahzaad Dalal.
The total wealth, measured in terms of cumulative market capitalisation of all the listed companies on the Bombay Stock Exchange, has surged to a high of Rs 60,74,290.48 crore (Rs 6,0742.9 billion), the latest data available with the bourse shows.
Reports have suggested Rs 400-650 as the possible IPO price
The United Progressive Alliance government conveyed its intentions to tap the stock market for raising resources through sale of PSU shares while retaining 51 per cent stake in the state-owned firms.
Dalal Street is expected to open a notch higher tomorrow on the back of strong Asian and European cues when markets open after four-day long holiday. Japan's Nikkei ended 1.33 per cent higher on Monday, while Shanghai closed up 1.51 per cent.
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At the heart of these predictable manifestations of business cycles usually were financial instruments which became so popular that they came to be more commonly referred to by their abbreviations or acronyms than their original names.
"The market will most probably open in negative territory but national fervour could help it in closing better," said Arun Kejriwal, director, Kejriwal Research and Investment Services. Global research firm Moody's Economy.com said, "Although the terrorist attacks are expected to affect market sentiment, local investors in Mumbai are well acquainted with terrorism and unlikely to engage in panic selling."
The government's vision of "housing for all by 2022" may turn out to be an uphill task with developers keeping off low-cost housing projects citing regulatory hurdles, high land cost and low returns making such projects "unaffordable".
The gap between Nifty's price-earnings multiple and economic growth is at a 12-year high
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The risk-reward ratio could turn adverse for foreign investors if corporate earnings disappoint by wide margins, or if crude oil prices spike in the international market, putting pressure on the rupee-dollar exchange rate.
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Bulls may be pinning hopes on Diwali fireworks at Dalal Street, but fund managers are uncertain whether this time around the 'festival of lights' will again trigger a historic trend of mostly positive movements.
Even as foreign institutional investors rapidly pull out their money from Dalal Street, Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's second largest, is set to invest $2 billion in Indian stocks.
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The UPA government will follow an inclusive reforms agenda all the while keeping a check on India's fiscal health, says Manoj Vohra, research director at Economist Intelligence Unit.
Dalal Street is likely to cross the 15,000 level on Tuesday and may hit the first upper circuit of 10 per cent as the upbeat market sentiment may attract retail investors to cash in on the bullish phase, analysts said.
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Reliance closed at Rs 2,195, higher by 3.3% on the BSE, after having placed a bid for a controlling interest in LyondellBasell Industries.
The combined market valuation of all the listed companies in the country dropped to Rs 30,86,075 crore (Rs 30,860.75 billion) on the last day of this fiscal as against Rs 49,72,953.37 crore (Rs 49,729.53 billion) on March 31, 2008, leading to a loss of over Rs 18,86,000 crore (Rs 18,860 billion) during the period.
BSE Midcap and BSE Smallcap indices settled the day 0.7% and 0.9% higher
These investors are not only betting on little-known stocks, but also sectors that the market participants are not paying much heed to. Some of these stocks can be potential multi-baggers, while others may not live up to the expectations of these stock-pickers, says Jash Kriplani.
Making the things worse, those hitting their record low share prices included big names like Reliance Power, Cipla, Ranbaxy, Ambuja Cement, Hindalco, Indian Hotels, Jaiprakash Associates, Jet Airways, Suzlon Energy and Idea Cellular. Realty majors DLF Ltd, Unitech, Parsvnath, Sobha Developers, Omaxe and Puravankara also plunged to their all-time lows.
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This comes a couple of days after activists of the Sena's student's wing, Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena, targeted establishments that still have Bombay in their names, including the city's prestigious school, Bombay Scottish, a Bombay Dyeing showroom and offices of The Times of India, whose city supplement is called Bombay Times. Senior Sena leaders on Tuesday held a protest outside PJ Towers on Dalal Street and threatened further action if their demand was not met.
"In next 12 to 18 months we should see a lot of uncertainty being cleared, and might see a new high certainly in late 2009 or early 2010, when uncertainty in global market is diminished and domestic concerns like inflation and high interest rates come under control," Religare Securities President (equity) Amitabh Chakraborty said.
According to an analysis of the changes in the listed companies' shareholding patterns since the beginning of this year, the number of companies where foreign institutional investors have raised their holding is bigger than that of those where FII holdings have gone down.
Till 15 days ago, only two PSUs - Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) - ranked amongst the five most valuable companies. But with two more PSUs, Mineral and Metals Trading Corporation (MMTC) and National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), seeing sustained rise in the last three months, the number has risen to four.
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