'Retail investors have been selling since the Budget and Foreign Portfolio Investors started selling.' 'Thus far, domestic institutions have picked up the slack, buying enough to keep the major indices from falling off a cliff.' 'However, there has been carnage in smaller stocks and the financial sector has been hit much harder than the major market indices,' points out Devangshu Datta.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Few top honchos of India Inc did very well in 2014.
India was less directly affected by the Chinese stock market rout and yuan devaluation that battered currencies and markets in the region.
Sebi's new FPI regulation has helped attract new capital pool, up registrations.
In the first of a two-part series, Tamal Bandyopadhyay explains why the ICICI Bank's board first rushed to deny all allegations against Kochhar and then took the extreme steps against her.
Slow pace of reforms in India is disappointing: Faber
Bankers claim they have received good response to the roadshows held abroad for Coal India, IndianOil and PowerGrid.
The New Year 2015, however, may see shares worth over Rs 50,000 crore (Rs 500 billion) being put on the table by the government, including by way of part-sale of its holdings in PSUs and its residual minority stakes in some private sector entities.
Readers tell us how they are managing without cash since November 8.
Since mid-July, the RBI has taken steps to tighten cash conditions, which have failed to support the rupee but sent bond yields surging, posing a fresh threat to the already cooling economy.
Concluding the three-part series, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta says that the black money law is likely to fail because of the ineptness of India's investigative and enforcement agencies.
A gradual increase works best for the US, as well as global markets, says Nizam Idris managing director, head of strategy (fixed income and currencies), Macquarie Bank.
China has relaxed its one-child policy and further freed up markets in order to put the world's second-largest economy on a more stable footing.
Uncorking the business of vintage wines and spirits.
In the Anti Money Laundering (AML) Basel Index 2013 India has been ranked 93rd and 70th in 2012 and 2013 respectively out of 140 countries.
India's banks are propping up too many weak producers.
Investor confidence has evaporated amid fears over the rising cost of funding India's gaping current account deficit, prompting New Delhi to delay plans to raise much-needed funds through partial privatisations, finance ministry sources said.
'Modi and Abe are working seriously for India-Japan bonhomie to grow stronger.' 'It is a win-win situation for both countries and the future look promising,' says Rajaram Panda, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations India Chair Visiting Professor at Reitaku University, Japan.
We have cleared all dues to our employees, says Ajay Singh
The resilience of many emerging markets, notably China and India, in the aftermath of the Lehman shock further strengthened this sense of manifest destiny.
There are some advantages of a falling rupee.
ITC is one of those few enterprises in the world that has traversed a 100 year journey and has yet managed to remain contemporary, relevant and competitive.
I-T lens on current account deposits over Rs 12.5 lakh. All the news and more post demonetisation.
Keep exit plans handy, D-day could be the second week of August, writes Sonali Ranade in Market Notes.
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