According to a Credit Suisse report, the steep Sensex fall has validated two fears: (1) The Indian market is linked to global developments; and (2) Foreign flows are the biggest drivers of the market.
Investors on Dalal Street seem to have nothing to fear as over 228 scrips on Wednesday surged to their upper circuit levels, even as the benchmark index Sensex had plunged 10 per cent to touch its lower limit in the morning trade. As per the data available on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 228 scrips across all groups touched their upper circuit limit, representing the cap on the upward movements, while just 132 stocks touched their floor limit.
The circuit breaker system becomes effective at three stages of the index movement -which has been fixed as 10 per cent, 15 per cent and 20 per cent in either BSE's Sensex or NSE's Nifty whichever is earlier.In case of a 10 per cent movement on either side in either of the two benchmark indices, there would be a one-hour halt if this movement takes place before 1 pm
Ahead of the credit policy markets were down by 400 points and after RBI announced the credit policy, it went into a downward spiral falling by another 337 points to below 9,000-points mark, a level last seen in July 2006. RBI on Friday kept its key rates unchanged in the mid-term review of annual monetary policy and lowered economic growth projections to 7.5-8 per cent for 2008-09.
India Inc on Monday expressed optimism that the Congress-led government at the Centre would carry forward the reforms, and the stock market crash was a result of "complete nervousness" among investors, which would recede after the Common Minimum Prog
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Undeterred by the volatility on the Dalal street, realty major Emaar MGF on Wednesday said it would go ahead with its plan to enter the capital market for raising up to Rs 7,077 crore (Rs 70.77 bilion) through initial public offer.
While the investors have lost a whopping Rs 6,63,975 crore (Rs 6,639.75 billion) in just one trading session from market cap of Rs 66,17,501.33 crore (Rs 66,175.01 billion) on Friday last week. The investors had lost over 5,21,310 crore (Rs 5,213.1 billion) in the five trading sessions last week.
Market analysts are bullish about the dream run at the bourses.
This trend shows that global cues had a very influential effect on our markets. "We should be growing on our own strength," Kejriwal cautioned, adding the "subprime issue was not resolved, not sorted out, it has just been postponed".
Reliance closed at Rs 2,195, higher by 3.3% on the BSE, after having placed a bid for a controlling interest in LyondellBasell Industries.
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Drama, drama and more drama. This is how one would sum up the action on the stock markets during the last one-month.
price earnings ratio is a tool that loosely reflects the value of a company or the Sensex. Here's how you can calculate it.
This amount does not include losses suffered indirectly through investment in mutual funds (MFs) and insurance companies.
The years when investors had reaped positive gains included 2007 (3.88 per cent), 2005 (9.11 per cent), 2003 (7.46 per cent), 2001 (3.2 per cent). The Sensex's over 28 per cent jump in May this year, makes the biggest gains in a month over the past 10 years.
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Bulls of the Dalal Street once again managed to breach the 12,000-mark on Thursday, but the latest drive to this once-beaten milestone had less of foreign support that the Indian equity market has been getting through FII inflows.
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The government on Monday said that the capital market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, is enquiring the sharp fall in share prices a week ago that had wiped off more than Rs 100,000 crore (Rs 1 trillion) of shareholders' wealth.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India on Tuesday asserted that the Indian financial markets were safe for investing and there was no payment crisis on the bourses.
Gold prices rose on the bullion market in New Delhi on Monday on emergence of buying by investors amid purchasing by stockists, as funds got diverted from falling equity markets.
The stock markets on Monday crashed, witnessing a historic fall of 16 per cent in a day triggered by uncertainty over economic reforms and policies of the new government at the Centre.
Investor wealth worth over Rs 13.44 lakh crore was wiped off on Thursday as the domestic equity markets tumbled along with global risk assets, after Russia launched military operations against Ukraine. Amid intensifying rout in the global financial markets, the 30-share BSE Sensex plummeted 2,702.15 points or 4.72 per cent to end at 54,529.91. The carnage on Dalal Street eroded investor wealth worth Rs 13,44,488.54 crore, taking the total market capitalisation (m-cap) to Rs 2,42,24,179.79 crore on the BSE.
After the Friday's blood-bath at Dalal Street, the Sensex today opened 27 points lower over its last close at 6,221.
