Who knows when the top chief executives will once again get the fat bonuses they were used to? The last recession provides a hint.
Sharma is Head of Emerging Markets and Chief Global Strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.
JM Financial Services, which split from its seven-year partner Morgan Stanley in February, had given up two key businesses viz., institutional broking & sales & equity research, to the US bank for $425 million (Rs 1,912 crore).
Fiscal consolidation is keenly awaited.
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Mumbai-based property developer Oberoi Constructions, led by billionaire Vikas Oberoi, is planning a Rs 4,000 crore ($1 billion) initial public offer by year end. Vikas Oberoi, also known as Vikki Oberoi is at the 707th slot in the Forbes annual list of billionaires with a wealth of $1.7 billion.
China spends seven times more on infrastructure than India.
China spends seven times more on infrastructure than India.
After having raised Rs 20,000 crore by selling NFOs, mutual funds are now likely to turn buyers. A slew of funds, including Morgan Stanley ACE Fund, Birla Sun Life Pure Value Fund, Mirae Asset India Opportunities Fund Standard Chartered Fund closed recently. Mutual funds launch NFOs to raise money since the mutual fund penetration in India is low. Most mutual funds expect redemptions on account of advance tax provisioning that corporate houses do at this time of the year.
Indian stock markets have developed a resilience to political hurdles, reforms and have aligned to global cues which decide the direction of their movement, a report by a leading investment bank has said.
Now, economists are famous for having a wide array of views, with most of them being wrong, but it is difficult not to notice that economists working for companies that will benefit the most from -- and, in some cases, desperately need -- lower interest rates are the ones that are screaming most loudly about how terrible things are and how the US Fed needs to cut, cut, cut rates.
Given the uncertainty on the US economic outlook, the rising rupee, and the lack of clarity on imposition of fringe benefit tax on stock options, analysts believe the companies may strike a note of caution on FY08 earnings.
A consortium of Anil Agarwal-led Sterlite Industries and global financial services major Morgan Stanley has emerged as the frontrunner in the race to acquire a strategic 26 per cent equity stake in the troubled financial institution IFCI Ltd.Besides Sterlite, two other consortiums - Shinsei Bank-PNB-JC Flowers and Cargill Financial Services Corporation-Texas Pacific Group - had put in bids on December 14.
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The taxman is rapidly catching up with foreign companies operating in India through agents. After Star, Morgan Stanley and Sony, it was the turn of UK-based Rolls Royce to be asked to pay taxes on a part of profits earned from Indian operations.
India's macroeconomic environment is improving, but it is still not past the point where it can ignore the developments in the global markets
Sources close to the developments said the company would announce the deal any day. Morgan Stanley is advising Standard Chartered on the deal.
For every 2.5 degree celsius rise in global temperature, the damage to India is predicted to be 4.9 per cent of the gross domestic product, highest for any country, according to a key finding of a research by global financial services firm Morgan Stanley.
A consortium of bankers that will fund the Ruias' bid for Hutchison's 67 per cent equity stake in Hutchison Essar Ltd will begin "due diligence" on the company in the next few days
As top bosses of Vodafone and Essar arrived in Hong Kong to negotiate a deal for acquiring Hutchison Telecom's Indian business, its parent company has indicated it will not consider any offer below $14 billion.
Morgan Stanley Real Estate on Wednesday announced that it has invested Rs 300 crore (around $68 million in Mantri Developers Private Ltd, a private Bangalore-based real estate developer.
The move is a show of faith from three of the world's biggest technology companies in fast-growing Snapdeal
In a significant decision on Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that foreign companies would not have to pay tax on their global income earned from business related to their outsourcing arms/units if these are done at existing market prices.
According to dealers in the know, the Reliance Power IPO had generated deals worth Rs 2,500 crore (Rs 25 billion) in the grey market, of which nearly 90 per cent were settled till Wednesday. However, with the Reliance Power stock now struggling even to close above the Rs 350 level against the issue price of Rs 450 after three days of listing, some of the clients are refusing to pay, according to sources.
According to a Thomson Financial research, no Indian investment bank figures in the top ten list of the M&A deals that was struck this year, which was topped by UBS.
India accounted for a meagre 5.1 per cent of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals among emerging countries in the first nine months this year, the lowest in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations.
Iqbal Singh has been appointed as the new CEO and President of GE Money India. The company is also planning to induct a strategic partner in a few months.
Vikram Pandit has taken the helm at the troubled financial-services giant. He talks about the road back.
Foreign institutional investment flows remain key driver for the Indian markets.\n
The Tata Consultancy Services offer price of Rs 775-900 is attractive from a long-term perspective.
Stephen S Roach, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, warned that Asia and India will be hit hard due to a likely recession in the US in 2008, saying "if US sneezes, Asia will catch a cold." Predicting a significant correction in emerging market equities, which would also not spare the fast rising Indian stock markets, Roach, who is regarded as one of the Wall Street's most influential economists, said he did not believe in the global de-coupling theories.
Transcript of the market chat held on January 12.
Malcolm Wood, Asia Pacific Equity Strategist at Morgan Stanley is not too positive on the financial sector in India.
Reliance Comm wants all of Hutch Essar at one go.
The under-leveraged nature of corporates will help reduce the impact.
Investors must keep in mind that the bank has significant room for improvement, which could justify its aggressive valuations of Rs 275.
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