The Bombay Stock Exchange will start a separate platform for the small and medium-size enterprises by the year-end, a top bourse official said on Wednesday.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India is keeping a close watch on the movements in the stock prices at the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange, which hit the upper circuit halting the trade for the day, a senior finance ministry official said.
The abnormal price rise in two penny stocks - KGN Industries and Sylph Technologies - will top the agenda of the weekly surveillance meeting that the Securities and Exchange Board of India holds with stock exchanges.
The company's meeting with the striking employees failed to resolve the deadlock over unpaid salaries.
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In the sea of stocks that are flooding the market, choosing the stock that works best for you is very difficult. Here are a few points that could help you narrow down your search.
The stock markets will be open on Saturday for trading from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm.
India, with m-cap of about $1.6 trillion, is ahead of Switzerland.
The Bombay Stock Exchange and Foreign Exchange market will remain closed today due to a terrorist attack in Mumbai.
In a departure from big gains in the past two years, investors saw around Rs 20 lakh crore of their wealth eroded as Indian equities tanked in 2011 because of inflation, high interest rates and the uncertain global growth environment accentuated by the euro zone debt crisis.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is considering segregation of settlement for proprietary trades and retail trades to avoid misuse and circumvention by certain brokers, its chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch said recently. Proprietary trading refers to trades done by brokers and other financial institutions using their own capital. "There are some people who are permitting access to their clients through prop accounts for a variety of reasons, including wanting to fund their margins.
Adani Exports and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer were the only two A-group stocks that ended in the positive territory.
Indian stocks have emerged as the best performers among those in the emerging and the developed markets across the globe so far this year, giving investors the highest return of nearly 60 per cent.
When the markets are falling or rising consistently, stocks hitting upper or lower circuit is a common feature. It also means that investors, especially in a falling market, might find themselves unable to exit - at least immediately - from a stock that has hit lower circuit.
24 stocks in the BS 200 list have stayed in the positive territory.
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There is a need for further focus and strengthening of guidelines.
The decision to partially decontrol the sugar sector, the only industry left under the government control, was taken by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs Thursday.
The railway minister said the target of 700 km of new lines in the current year (2012-13) had to be scaled down to 470 km due to inadequate resources.
Income Tax officials visited three out of the 129 offices of Indiabulls Securities Ltd, as part of a survey being carried out to track investors who traded 'penny stocks'.
The market capitalisation of China, the world's second-largest economy, has topped $10 trillion for the first time.
Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole on Monday alleged that the agenda of the upcoming special session of Parliament is to separate Mumbai from the state and declare it as a Union territory.
A sharp rise in Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) stock prices baffled market players on Tuesday.
I think the Indian economy is poised to grow at over 8.5% and looks to continue for atleast another 4 to 5 years, says market expert Pranav Sanghavi.
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The government on Saturday said it would create a third trading platform to revive the regional stock exchanges which have been hit badly after the rapid growth of Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange.
With the government intending to take Air India and Indian Airlines to the stock market, investors will have wider choice for the shares in the sector, which otherwise is constrained by demand-supply mismatch due to the presence of only five small ai
The appreciation of the rupee, the dividend distribution tax and the hangover of the minimum alternate tax on information technology companies under the Software Technology Parks of India scheme have pulled the prices of IT stocks down.
All companies stock price surged on the news that UB Group has reached a deal with the world's largest spirit maker Diageo for a stake sale.
With the downgrade there is a danger that investors who hold these financial securities may sell out. Of course, the level of selling will depend on the way the investors react to this downgrade.
It was a day of irony on bourses today - while the stock market while the stock market recorded its second biggest single-day loss of 717 points, the stocks scaling their life-time high outnumbered those dropping to record lows by a wide margin. There were just five stocks on the Bombay Stock Exchange that dropped to their all-time low share prices, while as many as 89 stocks rose to their record highs.
As part of efforts to develop the corporate bond market, trading platforms for the fledgling instruments are expected to be operational from July at the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange.
Expectations of muted expenditure on railway infrastructure and the assumption that there would be no further fare hikes may have contributed to the fall, according to analysts.
