'The favourable rupee-dollar exchange rate, there are opportunities we can tap.'
AT&T Inc, the largest telecom services provider in the US, has acquired an 8.07 per cent stake in Pune-headquartered Tech Mahindra for $34.5 million (around Rs 160 crore) by exercising a 2005 option agreement to buy a stake in the company. Its stake at Tuesday's prices on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), however, is worth around Rs 900 crore.
Piramyd Retail shares opened at the Bombay Stock Exchange on Monday at Rs 146 against an issue price of Rs 120.
A new cyber fraud known as 'pig butchering scam' or 'investment scam' has emerged, targeting unemployed youths, housewives, students, and needy people who are made to lose large sums of money daily, according to the latest annual report of the Union home ministry.
The stock of the country's largest passenger vehicle maker, Maruti Suzuki India (MSIL), has been hitting successive all-time highs over the past three trading sessions. The rally in the scrip has helped it notch over a 21 per cent gain since the start of February, outperforming the National Stock Exchange Nifty Auto Index. The gains for the leader of small passenger cars have been more recent, as the company still trails the Nifty Auto over one- and two-year periods.
Last Friday's tumble on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones index falling nearly 400 points, is sure to have its repercussions on the already shaky Indian market. With both the benchmark indices, the Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex and the National Stock Exchange Nifty having lost 5 per cent apiece last week, investors are already skittish.
The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex crossed the 21,000 level in early morning trade for the first time on Tuesday on heavy buying by funds.
In a bid to provide the retail investors quick access to corporate information, Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange
The country's largest real estate player, DLF, on Friday said it has approached the government for surrendering four of its IT-ITeS notified special economic zones (SEZ).
Capital markets regulator Sebi has imposed a penalty of Rs 10 lakh on Jayant Bhusare, who was one of the executive of Sampark Infotainment, in a case pertaining to the irregularities in the NSE's 'Dark Fibre' case. He has been directed to pay the fine within 45 days, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said in its order. On Tuesday, the regulator had levied a fine totaling Rs 44 crore on 18 entities, including NSE, Sampark, certain brokers and their respective past and present employees in the same matter.
The Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange have extended the trading timings in equity and equity derivative segments by nearly an hour to 9 a.m., effective from Friday.
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On the NSE, Oil India opened with a premium of 4.38 per cent at Rs 1,096. The stock then climbed to Rs 1,127 a piece before skidding to Rs 1,090.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has cancelled registration of four National Stock Exchange brokers with immediate effect.
Such brokers connect buyers to sellers, taking a commission on the deal.
The National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange will hold a two hour trading session on Saturday to enable the NSE to test a back-up trading system, exchange officials said on Wednesday.\n\n\n\n
A section of senior stocks brokers on Thursday demanded that the Sebi probe the reasons behind the steep decline in share prices on May 17 by analysing the trade data at the BSE and NSE and punish the guilty severely.
UTI Mutual Fund recently launched Gold Exchange Traded Funds and many more companies plan to follow suit. Get the lowdown.
The 50-share National Stock Exchange index Nifty shot up by 44.80 at 4,568.55, after moving between 4,578.75 and 4,504.85 points during the day. The upsurge was maintained by Maruti Suzuki, which raced to an all-time high a day after the leading carmaker reported a 25 per cent jump in quarterly profit on higher sales and lower raw material costs.
The 50-share National Stock Exchange index Nifty also shuttled between 4,524.00 and 4,436.60, before winding up at 4,469.10, showing a net loss of 33.15 points. The information technology sector, which led the upsurge in Tuesday's trading, suffered the most, losing 1.74 per cent to 3,694.03, as segment major Infosys and Tata Consultancy dropped on profit booking.
Fortis Healthcare plans to raise about Rs 504 crore (Rs 5.04 billion) from the capital market in addition to the Rs 154 crore (Rs 1.54 billion) raised through private placements before the IPO, a top company official said in Mumbai on Wednesday.
The market will open at 18:15 hours and will close at 19:15 hours.
The equity firm has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 2.11 per cent stake for a consideration of about Rs 252 crore (Rs 2.52 billion) in the National Stock Exchange of India Ltd, Norwest Venture Partners said. This would be the first FII investment under new policy subject to the regulatory approval, it said.
Two individuals filed the petition in the high court of Andhra Pradesh
IL&FS Financial Services has acquired 14.5 per cent stake in Maytas Infra, promoted by former Satyam chairman B Ramalinga Raju's kin, through invocation of pledge and off-market transactions.
A buoyant equity market, coupled with an improved performance of mutual funds (MFs) on the returns chart, has heightened retail investors' appetite for equities. In the past few months, equity MF schemes have seen a surge in fresh investments through both lump sum (one-time investments) and systematic investment plan (SIP) routes. During the August-September 2023 period, equity MF schemes recorded net lump sum investments of Rs 35,270 crore, compared to just Rs 5,550 crore in the previous three months, according to data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi).
A Delhi court on Tuesday sent former Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey to judicial custody till August 16 in a money laundering case related to alleged illegal phone tapping and snooping of national stock exchange (NSE) employees.
The agency was probing the rotation of funds and the role of front companies used in rotation of funds, sources said. They added that the conduct of the regulators was also being probed and, if need be, some officials may also be probed. Experts, including CAs from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India are assisting the CBI in probing the role of regulators in this case.
Mumbai-based Genxt Power India has launched its new model 'Evera', which is claimed to be a noiseless, pollution-free, electric bike with low maintenance cost that does not require petrol or diesel.
At the outset, decide whether you want to be a trader or an investor, suggest Sarbajeet K Sen and Sanjay Kumar Singh.
A day before the Reserve Bank's quarterly review tomorrow, the Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex today closed higher by a marginal 74 points even as brokers and fund operators maintained a low profile.
Shares of Maytas Infra hit its lower circuit just after opening, to halt trading at Rs 105, down 4.99 per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange. A similar fate was faced on the National Stock Exchange, where the scrip touched an intra-day low of Rs 105.40, down five per cent. A total of 971 shares got traded on both the bourses.
Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty hit their all-time high levels on Friday helped by impressive GDP data and fresh foreign fund inflows. Also, a rally in global markets added to the positive momentum in the equity markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 1,139.04 points to 73,639.34 -- its all-time peak -- in the late afternoon trade.
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.
National Stock Exchange decided to waive off transaction charges on trades done on its new mini-Nifty, till March 31.
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