In Europe, the Sensex will be traded on the Eurex, the region's derivative leader, controlled by German operator Deutsche Brse and SIX Swiss Exchange AG.
Index products like fixed-income, volatility and weather to broaden basket for hedging.
BSE has brought in the new technology from Deutsche Bourse.
Promoters are likely to price them cautiously, thereby leaving value on the table for the primary investor.
Top gainers among the S&P BSE Sensex include GAIL, Dr Reddy's Laboratories and Bharti Airtel, all edging up by 1% in late morning deals
FPIs would be classified into two categories instead of three, while the requirements for issuance and subscription of offshore derivative instruments would be rationalised.
To participate in an OFS, investors will have to open a trading A/C
Novices should enter markets via SIPs of equity mutual funds.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said that he proposes to exempt the income of New Pension System Trust from the income tax and any dividend paid to this Trust from Dividend Distribution Tax.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said Sebi would develop new products in the commodity derivatives space apart from taking steps to deepen the corporate bond market.
'A fund investor could pick, say, three of the top active funds in any given category.'
PNs allow such investors (primarily hedge funds, other leveraged investors and high net worth individuals) to enter and exit the India market without the need to register and establish settlement facilities and other requirements. Since it has been difficult for regulators to know those using PNs, questions on the source of such funds have risen.
The Sensex gained 7,430.37 points, or 27.91 per cent, this year.
This is the highest since May 2008, when the cumulative value of such investments stood at Rs 2,34,933 crore
P-Notes are mostly used by overseas HNIs.
Sources said non-banking financial companies of brokerage outfits had extended loans to clients by availing of bank credit. They could face serious trouble if auditors 'qualify' their books for extending loans on small- and mid-cap stocks as 'highly risky'. With just over a week to go before the end of the current financial year, most of the NBFCs are cleaning up their books before the audit to avoid being caught on the wrong foot.
India's National Stock Exchange has emerged as the fastest-growing bourse among the world's ten largest derivative exchanges as its total traded volumes nearly doubled in 2007. NSE registered a growth of 95.32 per cent in its F&O volume in 2007 to close to 380 million as against about 194 million in 2006. NSE's growth was the quickest among the ten largest derivative exchanges, followed by 50.36 per cent increase in trading volumes at Bolsa de Mercadorias & Futuros of Brazil.
The index options also touched a record high of Rs 4.9 lakh crore.
Gold looks cheap compared to the stock markets that are highly overbought at the moment.
Based on investment aims, mutual funds categorise their schemes as growth, income, balanced and money market schemes.
SBI and other public sector banks have decided to lend Rs 4,000 crore to Patanjali Ayurved for the acquisition of Ruchi Soya, which was facing bankruptcy proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. The money lent by banks will help the PSBs to settle their exposure to Ruchi Soya with a haircut of 65 per cent. Banks led by SBI and others had earlier made claims of over Rs 12,146 crore against Ruchi Soya after the company failed to repay its loans.
The hard truth is that unless you start investing for your children in advance, in appropriate investment avenues, you are risking their future aspirations.
Gearing up to ensure greater compliance by companies to listing agreement, NSE is planning to increase its headcount to bring in more efficacy in its oversight role as a front-line regulator of the securities market.
The rupee touched a high and low of 65.91 agaisnt the greenback during the day.
Losses largely came from the metal index, followed by power, infrastructure, realty, PSU, oil and gas, capital goods, FMCG, healthcare, auto and banking.
Investors can sell their entire equity and move to debt when stocks get expensive
Rajnikan Patel, CEO and managing director of the exchange, tells Business Standard in an interview that BSE remains in talks with global exchanges to offload equity.
'Rawalpindi must downsize its quest for 'strategic depth' in Afghanistan and Kashmir,' suggests Matein Khalid.
Though the agency did not include former Sebi chief CB Bhave and ex-member KM Abraham in the case, it recommended departmental action against the two.
Besides foreign flows, corporate earnings and US Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen's testimony to the nation's legislature are also likely to impact investor sentiment.
India's capital market regulator on outlined a series of steps, including allowing short selling of equities by institutional investors, bringing mutual fund intermediaries under its purview.
Officials said Sebi is closely in touch with RBI on the market developments.
Investments into domestic shares through participatory notes (P-Notes) surged to the highest level in more than six-and-half years at Rs 2.65 lakh crore (about $43 billion) in October.
Chief Investment Officer of Prudential ICICI, Nilesh Shah discusses the current situation of the market in terms of inflows, valuations and the general consensus on the market.
These funds give the wealthy an option to invest in strategies that other equity products like mutual funds and portfolio management services cannot, says Nishant Agarwal.
P-Notes, mostly used by overseas High Networth Individuals, hedge funds and other foreign institutions, allow such investors to invest in Indian markets through registered foreign institutional investors.
Lower crude oil prices would impact India's inflation, CAD.
Among Sensex components, shares of Reliance Industries, India's largest company by market value, stole the show by surging 1.61 per cent to their highest in over three months.
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