Dalal Street is buzzing with excitement, as some of the most-awaited IPOs are gearing up to hit the market. While some of these big companies are planning to join the stock exchanges towards the end of 2025, others are likely to be available for trading by the first half of 2026.
Starting this Friday, Prakash Reddy, secretary of the Communist Party of India, plans to occupy Dalal Street accompanied by whoever he manages to woo by then.
The moral: If you do not know the rules of the game, Dalal Street can be an expensive place to learn them.
It was the worst Budget day today for Dalal Street with the Bombay Stock Exchange index Sensex plunging over 850 points - the biggest fall on any Budget day - on concerns of widening fiscal deficit.
LIC, ICICI Prudential invest Rs 13,000 crore (Rs 130 billion) and Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 20 billion) respectively in the first quarter of FY09.
The foreign institutional investors party continues on Dalal Street unabated, with net investment by FIIs in stock markets surging past the $50-billion milestone for the first time in the country's history.
The indefinite stir against corporate greed and the failure of the capitalist model of development is being spearheaded by Communist Party of India and its students wing All-India Youth Federation in Mumbai, a CPI spokesperson said.
Dalal Street witnessed its best-ever post-election rally in history on Monday with the benchmark index jumping over 2,110 points or 17 per cent on the first trading day after the announcement of the Lok Sabha election results.
The markets will also keenly eye the HSBC manufacturing and services data.
The analysis is based on the free-float market capitalisation.
Domestic mutual funds have infused the highest ever -- Rs 4.84 trillion -- this year amid strong inflows via SIPs.
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D-Street is hoping RBI policy review meeting on Tuesday will uphold its stand on easing of interest rates
ITC's net profit grew the fastest, followed by HUL and Asian Paints.
The BSE mid-cap and small-cap stocks have outperformed the benchmark Sensex in 2023-24 with about 62 per cent returns, reflecting buoyant investors' sentiment amid robust macroeconomic conditions in the country and impressive quarterly earnings reported by various firms. As per an analysis, the BSE mid-cap gauge jumped 15,013.95 points or 62.38 per cent in the 2023-24 fiscal, while the small-cap index climbed 16,068.99 points or 59.60 per cent. In comparison, the 30-share BSE Sensex raked in a gain of 14,659.83 points or 24.85 per cent during the fiscal under review.
State debt is rising because revenues are disappointingly weak. Ten states have debt ratios exceeding 30 per cent. In 2023-2024, states were borrowing simply to meet day-to-day expenses, points out Debashis Basu.
'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.'
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Players like UltraTech Cement more expensive than ITC and HUL; others catching up fast.
Since Modi sarkar came to power in May 2014, markets have been trading volatile.
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With commodity markets remaining soft and uncertain, it is likely the money will flow into equity markets with strong upsides, such as India.
The NSE Nifty finally ended at a fresh 2009 closing high of 5172 - up 34 points.
The rise in India Inc's market value was led by asset-light firms.
The Reserve Bank's of India's (RBI's) decision to increase the key short-term interest rates by 25 basis points has been termed as in-line with the street expectations by marketmen.
Most brokerages have maintained their Sensex and Nifty targets as they believe there is little room for further re-rating in the backdrop of weak earnings.
Fund managers and analysts believe a lot would depend on the outcome of the Reserve Bank of India's rate-setting meeting on 3rd May.
It is the country's largest issuer of bonds by default. But the government of India thinks it has enough expertise to give the private players a tip or two on how to time the equity market.
Institutional desks of many brokerages in India are in the process of selling about Rs 2,000 crore worth of equity holding of bankrupt US investment bank Lehman Brothers Inc in some Indian companies.
The same set of companies had reported 3.8 per cent annual net profit growth in the previous quarter and 7.5 per cent annual growth in the same quarter last financial year.
Demand among several pre-Budget representation by BSE Brokers' forum
Godrej Properties, is on the horizon as it unlocks value in its high-value Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) project.
Currency market participants do not expect the rupee to slide immediately but feel a sharp rise is unlikely because of month-end dollar demand from importers.
Equity investors are up for an eventful trading week ahead as the 90-day suspension period of the reciprocal tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump ends on July 9, analysts said, adding that a positive outcome from the trade negotiations could further lift market sentiment, particularly benefiting trade-sensitive sectors.
UBS reiterated its Nifty target of 9,200 by December as it expects growth to gather steam
From the Sensex pack, Bharti Airtel, Asian Paints, Infosys, Bharat Electronics, Tech Mahindra and Eternal were major laggards. However, Maruti, Tata Steel, Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv, Trent and Tata Consultancy Services were among the gainers.
The announcement made by Sebi chairman M Damodaran that new rules on Offshore Derivatives Instruments such as PNs have come into effect in-line with the proposals made last week has put to rest all the confusion over the whole issue and normalcy is set to return to the bourses, a broker said.
With markets expected to remain volatile, promoters and lenders exposed to the industrials and materials space can face brunt of the price erosion of the pledged shares.
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