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'Kejriwal has given not only Modi and Shah some food for thought, but also to jaded Opposition leaders who must now wonder whether taking on the BJP's majoritarianism by the horns, as they have been doing so far, is the appropriate strategy in such extraordinary times,' notes M K Bhadrakumar.
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.
The combined market valuation of all the listed companies in the country dropped to Rs 30,86,075 crore (Rs 30,860.75 billion) on the last day of this fiscal as against Rs 49,72,953.37 crore (Rs 49,729.53 billion) on March 31, 2008, leading to a loss of over Rs 18,86,000 crore (Rs 18,860 billion) during the period.
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Making the things worse, those hitting their record low share prices included big names like Reliance Power, Cipla, Ranbaxy, Ambuja Cement, Hindalco, Indian Hotels, Jaiprakash Associates, Jet Airways, Suzlon Energy and Idea Cellular. Realty majors DLF Ltd, Unitech, Parsvnath, Sobha Developers, Omaxe and Puravankara also plunged to their all-time lows.
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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.
"In next 12 to 18 months we should see a lot of uncertainty being cleared, and might see a new high certainly in late 2009 or early 2010, when uncertainty in global market is diminished and domestic concerns like inflation and high interest rates come under control," Religare Securities President (equity) Amitabh Chakraborty said.
According to an analysis of the changes in the listed companies' shareholding patterns since the beginning of this year, the number of companies where foreign institutional investors have raised their holding is bigger than that of those where FII holdings have gone down.
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Till 15 days ago, only two PSUs - Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) - ranked amongst the five most valuable companies. But with two more PSUs, Mineral and Metals Trading Corporation (MMTC) and National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), seeing sustained rise in the last three months, the number has risen to four.
The risk-reward ratio could turn adverse for foreign investors if corporate earnings disappoint by wide margins, or if crude oil prices spike in the international market, putting pressure on the rupee-dollar exchange rate.
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BSE Midcap and BSE Smallcap indices settled the day 0.7% and 0.9% higher
These schemes are expected to perform in the next 2-3 years.
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.
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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.
Parekh was held guilty in the case related to the 1992 stock scam, in which Canbank Financial Services was duped of over Rs 47 crore (Rs 470 million). On April 1, a special court in Mumbai had sentenced Parekh, Hiten Dalal and four others to one year in jail for siphoning off funds from Canbank Financial Services Ltd, a unit of Canara Bank.
Stock broker Ketan Parekh sentenced to one year jail term in the 1992 Canfina scam. Earlier, on November 12, 2007, the Securities and Exchange Board of India had barred Ketan Parekh and his associates, who were instrumental in the stock scam of 1999-2001, from accessing the stock market for another ten years.
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.
Experts expect the trend to continue in the near term.
These investors are not only betting on little-known stocks, but also sectors that the market participants are not paying much heed to. Some of these stocks can be potential multi-baggers, while others may not live up to the expectations of these stock-pickers, says Jash Kriplani.
The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday replaced its Mehrauli and Mundka candidates for the Delhi assembly polls following an inquiry by the party's "internal Lokpal", triggering protests outside Arvind Kejriwal's Kaushambi residence.
Maharashtra has a rich wealth of forts, more than any other state in the country. 'If nothing is done, some of the small forts may simply disappear in the next 50 years.'
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
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.
Its revenue from operations, however, grew 8.3 per cent to Rs 14,541 crore during the period under review from Rs 13,423.4 crore in the same quarter last year.
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Abidali Neemuchwala, who had joined Wipro in 2015 as group president and chief operating officer, was also given 200,000 in stock options in the financial year ended March 2016.
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The benchmark Index Sensex touched an all-time high of 17,953.07 points before slipping over 400 points during the day. However, the index regained most of the losses to close at Rs 17847.04 rising about three per cent.
On the heels of huge success of Parsvnath Developers' public issue, which was over subscribed 62 times, domestic real estate firms are planning to raise nearly Rs 22,500 crore (Rs 225 billion) through their public offerings.
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