Raghuram Rajan on February 2 left the key interest rate unchanged.
According to Soumya Kanti Ghosh, chief economic advisor of the State Bank of India group, a 50 bps rate cut is a possibility, but 25 bps is more likely.
Leading Israeli IT company, Ness Technologies, has submitted a prospectus to the US Securities and Exchange Commission for launching its initial public offer to raise capital for investments in India.
Amidst a slew of favourable factors, stocks of retailing majors like Shoppers' Stop and Pantaloon Retail have appreciated between five to a whopping 73 per cent since the start of 2005.
Brokerage firm CLSA says in its interactions with government officials, measures such as the dollar-deposit scheme were under consideration.
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Franklin Templeton has won the mutual fund of the year award instituted by CNBC-TV18 and rating agency CRISIL.
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Warburg Pincus group and associates are making an open offer to the shareholders of Max India Ltd to acquire additional 20 per cent stake in the company for Rs 200 per share payable in cash.
Bullish on the market, fund managers have pegged economic growth at 6-7 per cent this fiscal with interest rates likely to remain moderate, the rupee emerging stronger and the Sensex crossing 7000.
In the past two weeks China has cut interest rates.
Lead managers to the ensuing public issue of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation have agreed not to charge any commission on participatory notes aimed at attracting large foreign investors as part of its underwriting agreement.
Despite volatile markets and the collapse of the technology bubble, the South Asian community in the United States -- especially Indians -- continues to grow and build wealth, according to a study released by Merrill Lynch on Tuesday.
Petronet LNG Ltd, which completed construction of India's first LNG import terminal at Dahej in Gujarat, announced on Monday that it will float an initial public offering of 26.10 crore
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India has 61,000 millionaires, while the United States has a whopping 2.27 million, according to a study.
Governor Raghuram Rajan's move to cut the MSF rate, at which banks borrow if they exceed their repo borrowing limits, by 0.50 per cent to 9 per cent should not be construed as a reversal in his policy stance and is more of a normalising measure, Citi said in a note.
DSP Merrill Lynch Mutual Fund on Monday launched three new schemes and targets to raise Rs 750 crore (Rs 7.50 billion) through the initial public offering for these schemes.
They believe that the key reason behind such a high growth rate could be "a steep downward revision" of the year-ago base period.
Petronet LNG Ltd will float an initial public offering of 261 million shares, representing 34.8 per cent of the total equity of the company, around mid-February, P Dasgupta, director (finance), PLL, said in New Delhi on Friday.
The government has appointed Kotak Mahindra Capital Co, DSP Merrill Lynch and JM Morgan Stanley as book runners for the public issue of 10 per cent equity shares in state exploration firm Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.
Income and long-term gilt funds will continue to outperform the broad market indices in the long term as trading gains will add to the total returns, according to a Merrill Lynch Mutual Fund Debt survey.
About 61,000 high net worth individuals in India increased their wealth by 22 per cent to a whopping $267 billion (Rs 12,09,000 crore) in 2003, the World Wealth Report drawn up by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini said on Wednesday.
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