From the 30-share pack, 18 stocks ended with gains led by SBI, which surged 27.58 per cent, and ICICI Bank 14.69 per cent.
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Vijay Mallya, who faces prosecution in India, is reportedly in London.
Heavyweights such as Coal India, L&T and SBI ran up losses, taking cues from overseas markets.
Share rises further to 73 per cent from 66 per cent last year; Some overseas i-banks seen scaling down operations
EPFO is managing a corpus of Rs 6.5 lakh crore.
Visa and 20 insurance companies in India have joined forces to make paying life and general insurance premiums "faster and easier" through a range of new payment options for Visa cardholders
WhatsApp on Wednesday said it expects to facilitate the purchase of "affordable sachet-sized" health insurance through its platform by the end of the year as part of its efforts to provide users in India with greater access to financial solutions. The Facebook-owned company noted that its 'Payments' feature is now available to users across the country (currently up to 20 million users) with support from banking partners - State Bank of India, HDFC, ICICI and Axis Bank.
Sanjay Kumar Singh tells you what to watch out for when buying insurance and investing in MFs online.
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Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Tata Group shares were among the top losers while Adani Ports emerged as the top gainer
Tata Capital will offer home loans at lower rates to women borrowers, on the lines of similar offerings being made by state-run institutions like SBI and LICHF.
The time is ripe for a merger of eight fund houses indirectly owned and controlled by the central government, says N Sundaresha Subramanian.
Inflow of more funds is likely to widen the reach of insurance and drive M&A activities in the sector where growth has stalled.
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Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Retail investors usually get caught up in the frenzy of a bull market and burn their fingers in IPOs, warns Tinesh Bhasin.
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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The government holds 90 per cent stake in ITI which is valued at Rs 7,550 crore.
the three investors that have submitted their final bids are not commercial banks. Among the three, one is a non-banking financial company. Another distinctive feature of the revival is that PMC may lose its cooperative bank characteristic after its reconstruction.
In the June quarter, growth in the segment stood at around 4 per cent, with premium collection at Rs 15,724 crore against Rs 15,074 crore in the same period of FY19. This was the lowest growth in the last five quarters, starting from Q1FY19.
Overall, the MF industry saw nearly Rs 5 trillion, or 18 per cent, of asset erosion in March, with the asset base shrinking to Rs 22.26 trillion from Rs 27.22 trillion at February-end.
The first quarter of 2018 saw infrastructure and real estate drive investment worth close to $8 billion across 180 deals
'It could tempt investors to pick stocks that are not fundamentally sound.'
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Annoyed people in queues in front of ATMs and banks said chasing their own money has now become a new way of life
The British pharma and consumer products maker had announced the open offer in November last year to raise its stake in its subsidiary to 75 per cent from 43.16 per cent at present.
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'This fall is nothing. We could see worse if everybody hits the panic button.'
A rebound in oil prices, FII outflows and concerns over current account deficit weighed on the domestic currency, pushing it to fresh life-time lows.
A lot of work is needed to be done on the part of the insurance sector behemoth, and the government, before it is ready for its market debut.
In ITC, LIC has invested Rs 38,358.66 crore, according to Capitaline data.
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Investors in LIC's insurance and other schemes are receiving a lower rate of return because LIC is subsidising incompetence at best and malfeasance at worst in institutions such as IDBI Bank and IL&FS, says Jaimini Bhagwati.
'We can't have the best of both worlds -- large, efficient, world class government-owned banks, doing social banking and making profits. 'Why not set them free from the shackles of such obligations and run them as business units?' says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Insurer has also made fresh investments since December 2015 quarter when RBI told banks to recognise bad loans
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