The story of the Bombay Stock Exchange and the people who shaped its growth: From wars and bomb blasts to speculators, reformers and wealth creators.
IPO-bound market infrastructure institutions like bourses have to ensure that every shareholder is 'fit and proper'.
The exchange moved through many ups and downs through the years.
The exchange had earlier said that DLF would move out from Group A.
The classification is based on several factors.
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Bonds were issued at Rs 3,119 per gramme of gold.
The National Stock Exchange (NSE) and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) are set to have some serious competition. Reliance Money, controlled by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, and Financial Technologies India Ltd (FTIL), which operates one of the world's largest exchange networks, are exploring the option of setting up their own equity exchanges.
This guide will explain the options, what NSE and BSE options are and what differentiates them from each other.
Exchange valued at $600-800 mn.
India's stock exchanges are considering trading on February 28, the federal Budget day, which falls on a Saturday.
The Singapore Exchange on Tuesday said in a statement it was "in preliminary discussions with BSE on a number of possibilities".
The Bombay Stock Exchange has emerged as one of the top ten bourses globally in terms of valuation of shares traded, with its market valuation nearly doubling to Rs 60,79,892 crore ($1.31 trillion) last year.
BSE, which recently concluded its Rs 1,243-crore initial public offering, will list on rival National Stock Exchange on Friday.
The MCX Stock Exchange has dragged the market regulator to court. In a writ petition filed on July 16 in the Bombay High Court, the exchange has sought a response from the Securities and Exchange Board of India on its application for permission to operate as a full-fledged stock exchange.
The iconic Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in south Mumbai received a bomb threat email, which turned out to be a hoax after a search of the premises, police said on Tuesday.
'Only four or five original companies remain; the rest have been replaced every decade as sectors evolve or leadership shifts.' 'Companies that fail to adapt -- like many textile mills from the 1970s and shipping firms from the 1980s -- disappear.' 'Benchmark indices reward those who reinvent themselves in line with economic demands.'
Sebi proposes to relax ownership rules to allow more entrants in the exchange space, which is seeing a disruption globally with the emergence of new technologies such as block chain.
In the last five days, there were instances in which various groups of protesters agitated in front of the Mantralaya (secretariat), Bombay Stock Exchange, were seen roaming along the Marine Drive, Jehangir Art Gallery, Giragon Chowpatty and Gateway of India, but police controlled the crowd and were seen requesting them to take precautions.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the Navi Mumbai International Airport and a portion of the Mumbai Metro Line, marking significant improvements to transportation infrastructure in Mumbai.
'BSE has facilitated nearly Rs 35 trillion in capital raising across multiple segments.'
The 1993 Mumbai bombings were a series of 12 coordinated explosions across the city on March 12, 1993, killing 257 people and injuring hundreds.
'India needs at least 70,000 to 80,000 eyewear stores; our 2,000 stores are just a drop in the ocean.'
Bharti Airtel and Tata Group have terminated discussions for a merger of their direct-to-home (DTH) business, according to a Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) filing on Saturday.
Like with all great crashes, some had noticed the cracks. "... cash balances (of banks) seem, from the available indications, to be hopelessly inadequate; and it is hard to doubt that in the next bad times they will go down like ninepins. If such a catastrophe occurs, the damage inflicted on India will be far greater than the direct loss falling on the depositors," said John Maynard Keynes in his May 1913 work "Indian Currency and Finance", written before his path-breaking work in macroeconomics laid the foundation of dealing with global crises.
The stage is all set for a battle among stock exchanges for setting up separate exchanges for small and medium enterprises as they top bourses.
While a scheme allowing short-selling of securities is expected to come into force from July, exchanges and depositories are finalising a mechanism for lending and borrowing of securities, without which the scheme cannot be implemented.
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) shares have lost more than a third of their value in the last six months, as a lacklustre market has hurt volumes in the exchange's cash segment and several efforts to revive its derivatives segment are yet to show results.
Rail stocks on Thursday fell by up to 8.6 per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) as cautious investors offloaded shares ahead of the Railway Budget, 2011-2012 to be presented on Friday.
All wholesale commodity markets, including bullion and metals, will remain closed on Monday on account of 'Republic Day'.
Shares of Tata Motors, which surged over eight per cent in morning trade, shed gains to settle up three per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange as the company launched the world's cheapest car 'Nano'.
A special court in Mumbai has directed the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to register a first information report (FIR) against former Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and five other officials in connection with alleged stock market fraud and regulatory violations.
Much is riding on the role of market intermediaries to get this platform going
Much is riding on the role of market intermediaries to get this platform going
Bombay Stock Exchange is working on trading in different categories like debts, interest rate derivatives, forex and power.
All the wholesale commodity markets, including bullion, metals and steel, will be closed in New Delhi on account of 'Dussehra'.
There are thousands of stocks within the NSE, for example, that are rarely traded.
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