A crucial Tata Trusts board meeting was unexpectedly postponed, highlighting internal conflicts over veto power, Tata Sons listing, and trustee eligibility, raising concerns about the stability of the $180 billion conglomerate.
'I cannot imagine that any NSA before Ajit Doval would have given us this kind of time and this kind of engagement. They would have offered slogans, or nothing at all. That, too, tells you something.'
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.
The 1993 Mumbai bombings were a series of 12 coordinated explosions across the city on March 12, 1993, killing 257 people and injuring hundreds.
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.
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'.
All wholesale commodity markets, including bullion and metals, will remain closed on Monday on account of 'Republic Day'.
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.
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.
There are thousands of stocks within the NSE, for example, that are rarely traded.
All the wholesale commodity markets, including bullion, metals and steel, will be closed in New Delhi on account of 'Dussehra'.
'BSE has facilitated nearly Rs 35 trillion in capital raising across multiple segments.'
The Reserve Bank of India said on Thursday it would allow banks, primary dealers and national financial institutions to hedge interest rate risks on the country's exchanges.\n\n\n\n
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.
BSE, the first ever stock exchange in Asia, has had an interesting rise to prominence over the past 137 years.
Share prices of the two top stock exchanges - the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange - are expected to rise after the Securities and Exchange Board of India proposed to allow domestic institutional investors, insurance firms and banks to hold up to 15 per cent stake in these exchanges as against the current limit of 5 per cent.
We visit a few brokerage houses and the stock exchanges to demystify the nuances of mobile trading of stocks and derivatives.
'We have done tremendous automation in the stock markets'.
'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.'
You could exit on completion of your set target or on spurt in the stock price.
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.
SKS stock has been highly volatile, amid several controversies around the company and the sector.
India allows derivatives trading in 31 more stocks
Profit-booking in IT and index-heavyweights dragged markets.
Trading would be conducted during normal hours.
The Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange will remain closed on Thursday in the wake of the terror attack in Mumbai.
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.
Stock and other financial markets are likely to resume trading today, after a day, as these were shut in the wake of deadly terrorist attack in Mumbai.
The United States, which entered this war in expectation of a short, sharp win along the Venezuela model, is now preparing for deeper involvement in a conflict it does not fully control, without the allies it typically relies on, against an adversary that is not behaving as expected, in a global environment that is already absorbing economic shock. Prem Panicker continues his must read daily blog on the Gulf War.
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.
