In a novel move, India's premier bourse National Stock Exchange is launching an advertisement-based investor awareness campaign on the popular Rajdhani Express trains on select routes.
Within a day of announcing advancement of opening to 0900 hours from December 18, NSE along with India's oldest stock exchange BSE deferred implementation of the proposal to January 4 to give more time to the brokerages to align their operations.
Less than a month after five financial institutions sold 20 per cent in the National Stock Exchange, a consortium of five stakeholders led by State Bank of India are looking to sell an 11 per cent stake in the exchange.
The F&O segment has been attracting huge volumes in recent months, with the average daily turnover above Rs 40,000 crore on the National Stock Exchange.
The total number of demat accounts in the country stood at 171.1 million as of August 31.
A section of investors in Kolkata on Wednesday accused the National Stock Exchange of enforcing certain rules and regulations on investors that were "not approved by the Securities and Exchange Board of India."
Softening rural consumption and the likelihood of weak corporate earnings in the March quarter saw investors dump stocks.
A combination of fewer listings and falling 'average daily traded value' contributed to the drag in Q3.
'Earnings will be the catalyst for markets to march higher from here on out.'
Disclosing an individual's income-tax returns is tantamount to violating the person's fundamental right to privacy as recognised by the Constitution.
There is little sense in trying to find stocks that will not be vulnerable in a situation where 87% of the market is trending down and India is getting set for a crucial election, says Devangshu Datta.
After sinking 586 points during the day, the 30-share index ended 503.62 points, or 1.29 per cent, lower at 38,593.52. The broader NSE Nifty plunged 148 points, or 1.28 per cent, to 11,440.20.
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'I have serious doubts about the longevity of the NDA government and the longevity of the 18th Lok Sabha itself.'
Gold burnished its image as the go-to asset class during turbulent times. However, investors seemed to have missed the bus. Net inflows into gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) plunged to a four-year low of Rs 653 crore in 2022-23 (FY23), even as gold emerged as the top-performing asset class.
From the Sensex pack, Mahindra & Mahindra climbed 3.71 per cent after the company reported an 18 per cent jump in its consolidated profit for the March quarter and the highest-ever annual profit of Rs 10,282 crore in FY23. Titan, Tata Steel, HDFC, UltraTech Cement, State Bank of India, ITC, IndusInd Bank, NTPC, HDFC Bank and Bajaj Finserv were the other major gainers. HCL Technologies, Power Grid, Maruti, Wipro, Tata Consultancy Services, ICICI Bank, Infosys, Tech Mahindra and Hindustan Unilever were the laggards.
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.
A 4-year study of nearly 300 companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India found evidence of a positive and significant relationship between corporate governance practices and company performance, S&P said on Wednesday.
It pegs the value of these companies at Rs 2 lakh crore (Rs 2 trillion).
'Barring a temporary blip where stocks fell on verdict day, we are back to all-time highs.'
Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman and managing director of Bharti Tele-Ventures, sold 3,13,005 shares on March 9 and 24,36,995 shares on March 10 of his holding in the company.
Following the reduction in settlement cycle to T+2, the National Stock Exchange has introduced a 15-minute 'closing session' after normal market hours to provide investors opportunity to close their trading positions.
Metal shares were the top gainers with Hindalco up over 5%.
Sebi had, in February, dropped allegations of fraudulent and unfair trade practices against NSE's former heads Ravi Narain and Chitra Ramakrishna in the co-lo case.
Financial Technologies (India) Ltd on Monday alleged that the National Stock Exchange, which has kept it on the 'watch-list', was also attempting to remove the firm from the panel of software vendors.
This was the biggest IPO in the Indian market since Infratel's.
n the broader market, both the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices, were up 1.2% and 0.7% each.
The first sign that shows a government is serious about an issue is when it appoints a high-powered committee to look into matters.
The bulk of of trading on stock markets is done algorithmically, by computerised clerks working at the behest of human traders.
Retail investors now own a bigger slice of small-cap companies than a couple of years earlier, attributable to their growing conviction in mutual fund (MF) schemes focused on this space. Data from Capitaline shows MFs' average holding in the National Stock Exchange Nifty Smallcap 250 rising to 8.67 per cent, from 7.67 per cent in the past two financial years, with the number of companies with over 20 per cent MF holdings, rising from 15 to 24. At the end of May, the top five small-cap firms with the highest MF holdings were Carborundum Universal, Blue Star, Cyient, Gujarat State Petronet, and Cholamandalam Finance.
Gautam Adani was the world's third and Asia's richest man a month back but a damning report by a US firm triggered a massive sell-off in shares of his apples-to-airport group, plunging his own wealth by $80 billion and the tycoon slipping to No.30 on the world billionaire index. Adani's sprawling conglomerate, which spans from sea ports to airports, edible oil and commodities, energy, cement and data centres, is under attack by US short-seller Hindenburg Research, which successfully deflated electric-vehicle maker Nikola Motors in 2020. Hindenburg, which held short positions in unidentified shares of Adani Group firms through its US-traded debt and offshore derivatives, on January 24 accused the conglomerate of "brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud" and using a number of offshore shell companies to inflate stock prices.
Nandan Nilekani on how IT modernised India's stock exchanges.
The regulator is unhappy with the exchange in the market crash case that occurred in 2012.
Brokers have asked for a longer session on poll result day and an additional one on May 17
Global investment firm Blackstone on Wednesday sold its entire 23.5 per cent stake in Embassy Office Parks REIT for around Rs 7,100 crore, according to sources. Embassy Office Parks REIT is India's first Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) sponsored by Blackstone and Bengaluru-based realty firm Embassy group. Blackstone sold its stake in the entity at around Rs 316 per share through open market transactions and at this price, the deal is valued at about Rs 7,100 crore, the sources said.
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