India's flag carrier Air-India has shortlisted three companies to act as advisors for its initial public offer to finance the fleet acquisition and is awaiting the government's nod for the IPO, a spokesman of the airline said on Thursday.
Take the Rediff Biz Quiz and find out how much you know about various Indian mutual funds.
Wall Street research analysts have suffered rounds of layoffs, big pay cuts, and accusations that they routinely lied to the investing public. Now there's a new worry -- that their jobs are being shipped overseas.
The short-term target for Sensex is at 13,900, and for Nifty is at 4,000.
Ruchir Sharma on the market potential over the next 12 months
Nimesh Kampani of JM Morgan Stanley believes that a good quality IPO would always get a response from investors.
Technology stocks are likely to lead the decline in this market.
'FDI is not a big issue because Indians are in now a position to raise big money.'
'I think we will win the game if our GDP grows at 7.5 to 8 per cent,'\nsays stockmarket legend Nimesh Kampani.
The cellular phone companies using the WLL-CDMA technology will increase their subscriber base by 86.6 per cent in 2004-05 as against the expected growth of 40 per cent in GSM customers, according to a study.
New Delhi Television Ltd has filed a draft red herring prospectus with Securities Exchange Board of India for its initial public offer of Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion).
The Bangalore-based company had raised $200 million in July from existing investors.
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.
State-owned BSNL would be the biggest gainer followed by MTNL if the government changes the inter-connect usage charges, based on TRAI's consultation paper, according to a recent report by equity research firm J M Morgan Stanley.
Morgan Stanley Capital International has added Maruti Udyog to its India index with effect from August 29.
Morgan Stanley Capital International's quarterly rejig of global stock indices later this week is not expected to trigger huge market moves as the main review will be in May, analysts said on Monday.\n\n\n\n
Sensex has lost almost 1,500 points since December 31, 2014.
India is set to witness a 'significant' growth in its market capitalisation during the next five years because of combination of a host of factors
Historically, Indian stocks trade at earnings multiple of 17-18 times. At current prices, the earnings multiple for the Sensex is 26 times.
With Housing Development Finance Corporation's (HDFC's) merger with HDFC Bank becoming effective on July 1, the merged entity is set to become the top weight in the benchmarks S&P BSE Sensex and the National Stock Exchange Nifty indices, dislodging the country's most valuable company, Reliance Industries (RIL), from its perch. HDFC will stop trading after July 13. At present, RIL has a weighting of close to 12 per cent in the Sensex and 10.3 per cent in the broad-based Nifty. Meanwhile, HDFC Bank and HDFC have weights of 9.9 per cent and 6.8 per cent in the Sensex and 8.8 per cent and 6 per cent in the Nifty, respectively.
Petronet LNG Ltd, which will become India's first LNG importer when Qatari RasGas' cargo lands at its Dahej import terminal in January next, has planned an initial public offering of equity shares in the same month.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has cleared the initial public offering by Indraprastha Gas Ltd, after the market regulator decided to defer implementation of T+6 norms for the book building issues.
Morgan Stanley expects RBI to cut rates sharply rather than "dribble down".
© 2026 Rediff.com - Investor Information - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances