The Securities and Exchange Board of India has approved The Walt Disney Company's deal to increase stake in Ronnie Screwvala-promoted UTV Software Communications beyond 15 per cent, six months after the deal was initially signed. Sebi, the market regulator, has also okayed the US-based company to launch an open offer.
After the National Stock Exchange, the focus has now shifted to stake sale soon in two depositories, the National Securities Depository and the Central Depository Services.
Spicejet will raise Rs 530.76 crore or Rs 5.3 billion ($118.5 million) through issue of equity shares on preferential basis to various foreign and domestic investors.
Foreign institutional investors were the major sellers on the Indian bourses in the last six months, accounting for total outflows of Rs 62,000 crore (Rs 620 billion).
It's one Forbes list where none would want to figure, but Ramalinga Raju, founder-chairman Satyam Computers (now Mahindra Satyam), has managed the feat of being among the world's 10 most outrageous CEOs.
Investors became richer by over Rs 80,000 crore (Rs 800 billion) today as the benchmark indices rose over 1.7 per cent each on Goldman Sachs' upgrading Indian stocks and optimism that government will push through key economic reforms.
A sharp erosion in his wealth and a long-running sibling rivalry notwithstanding, Indian billionaire Anil Ambani has retained his position in the list of the world's 100 most powerful people, but is down 30 places since last year, while his brother Mukesh has made a total exit.
In its Global Economics Paper, Goldman Sachs Economic Research has outlined ten crucial steps that India must take to achieve its full potential.
Foreign institutional investors are expecting the Third Front (read the Left) to play a crucial role in the formation of the new government and are worried about the fallout.
The satisfaction of serving the masses is proving to be a bigger lure for some management graduates.
Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan took charge of India's central bank when the rupee seemed to be in a tailspin while the country was facing runaway inflation.
Ujjivan Small Finance Bank's initial public offering attracted heavy investor demand on the final day of bidding on Wednesday as the issue was subscribed a whopping 126.36 times.
India's real GDP growth will decline marginally to 6.3 per cent in 2024 from the 6.4 per cent estimated for 2023, an American brokerage firm said on Monday. The next calendar year will be of two halves, wherein the government spending before the upcoming General Elections will be the key driver for growth, while after the elections, it will be the re-acceleration in investment growth, especially from the private sector, Goldman Sachs said in a report. From a fiscal year perspective, the brokerage said it expects growth to accelerate to 6.5 per cent for FY25 from the 6.2 per cent it has projected for the ongoing FY24, it added.
India's biggest drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd has put in its bid to acquire generic business of German pharmaceutical firm Merck.
London's AIM, Chinese and Korean exchanges interested.
The time may have come for India to stop thinking of five-year plans, and to focus instead on 10-and 20-year scenarios.
Reliance Industries is in talks with global energy majors, like British Gas of the UK, Chevron Corp of the US, Exxon and Shell for a possible stake sale in its Krishna-Godavari basin gas fields. RIL is looking for a strategic partner for its KG-D6 gas block to get deep sea exploration technology. The percentage of stake to be divested has not been firmed up & may depend on the value that the partner was bringing in. The block contains over 50trillion cubic feet of gas reserve
Gupta began serving a two-year prison term on insider trading charges
Now, economists are famous for having a wide array of views, with most of them being wrong, but it is difficult not to notice that economists working for companies that will benefit the most from -- and, in some cases, desperately need -- lower interest rates are the ones that are screaming most loudly about how terrible things are and how the US Fed needs to cut, cut, cut rates.
Managing director of Tata Steel B Muthuraman and vice chairman of Goldman Sachs group Suzanne Nora Johnson are among the 20 business labour and civil society leaders named by the UN to serve on Global Contact group.
Billionaire investor's Berkshire Hathaway to pay $2.1 bn for Texas utility's junk bonds.
If there is indeed a slowdown, it is unlikely to be confined to the export sectors.
The challenging task for the non-expert then is to pick up the right experts to follow, and these are not necessarily the ones who make the most noise!
Bharti Group on Monday offloaded 10 per cent of its stake in Bharti Telesoft to a group of investors led by Westbridge Capital for $13.5 million.
The brokerage said the consolidated fiscal deficit, including that of the Union (3.6 per cent), the states (2.6 per cent) and the off-budget borrowings which are being resorted to increasingly is a worry.
That interest rates at the long end could rise in the second half of the year is disconcerting.
US-based boutique investment firm GQG Partners along with other investors on Wednesday bought an 8.1 per cent stake in Adani Power Ltd for over Rs 9,000 crore ($1.1 billion) as the marquee investor shrugged off damning report of a US short seller to invest in billionaire Gautam Adani's group.
Who knows when the top chief executives will once again get the fat bonuses they were used to? The last recession provides a hint.
According to a Thomson Financial research, no Indian investment bank figures in the top ten list of the M&A deals that was struck this year, which was topped by UBS.
Flag Telecom, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Reliance Communication (RComm), has mandated Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank as lead managers for the maiden initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange.
Nimesh Kampani, chairman of the JM Financial group, talks to Business Standard on what led to the parting of ways with decade-old foreign partner Morgan Stanley.
which currently does an average daily turnover of Rs 8,000 crore (Rs 80 billion) - almost twice that of the Bombay Stock Exchange - has been valued at $2.5 billion.
