Investors of online brokerage house Zerodha on Monday said its users might face some problem while executing sell orders due to "an issue" related to depository CDSL. It tweeted, "You may face an issue with authorizing the sale of your stocks due to an issue with CDSL. "We are in touch with CDSL to have the issue resolved at the earliest."
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Stock market investors are expecting a balanced Budget with a focus on job creation, increased spending on infrastructure, reigning in the deficit, and bringing the economy back on track, experts said on Wednesday. Stock markets have been subdued in the run-up to the Union Budget with BSE's benchmark Sensex is almost flat so far this month. Even the corporate earning season failed to excite the markets, while some indices like IT and bankex have seen some positive movements.
'Valuations of midcaps and smallcaps have reached very high levels, and hence to that extent leave little margin of safety.'
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has cancelled registration of four National Stock Exchange brokers with immediate effect.
The chief metropolitan magistrate, S C Mishra, rejected on Thursday the bail petition of tainted stock broker Ketan Parekh and extended his judicial custody for another 14 days.\n\n\n\n
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In the last fortnight alone (September 1-17), the foreign institutional investors have made a net buy of whopping Rs 12,442 crore ($2.67 billion) in the Indian stock market, as per the data available with market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India.
Consolidation is happening because of a prolonged slowdown in residential sales which has also brought down the business of brokerages.
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After the massive price volatility in Shekhawati Poly-Yarn, listed in January, the counter of Omkar Speciality witnessed wild price movements within a couple of days of listing.
The entities were involved in fraudulent practises in Sun Infoways stocks.
Claiming that it had the best of the mechanism to protect clients and cut their losses during the stock market meltdown, ICICI Securities has said brokerage firms should be rated in the interest of investors.
Investor confidence in unlisted shares was shaken after recent developments that saw online drugstore PharmEasy issuing new shares in a rights issue at a 90 per cent discount to its previous valuations and Reliance Retail's move to buy back and cancel shares held by public investors. Both stocks were, at one time, very popular in the unlisted market, with canny investors cornering them with the objective of benefiting from their listing. "Since investors have suffered losses on both counts, they will be careful when it comes to dealing in shares of unlisted companies," observes a broker dealing in unlisted shares, adding that there will be some rationality to the pricing.
FM has asked brokers to exercise self-regulation for capital markets and also advised them to corporatise. He has commissioned a World Bank study to suggest an effective model for India.
The Anil Ambani group on Friday said that it has identified the stockbrokers behind the spread of malicious rumours and 'baseless sensational charges' against it and sought immediate action by the Securities and Exchange Board of India against the perpetrators.
Exchanges will have to facilitate a more direct interface between clients and the clearing corporation, bypassing intermediaries such as brokers, under this new proposed framework.
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Rising outgo towards clearing and settlement fees has led to an altercation between the BSE and the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE), with the latter striking down the former's request to lower the charges. NSE said it has no plans to restructure the same and that it will continue with the pricing defined under the interoperability framework. The interoperability framework, introduced in 2019, allows trades executed on any of the exchanges to be settled or cleared at either of the two clearing corporations -- NSE Clearing (NCL) or Indian Clearing Corporation (ICCL), fully-owned by the NSE and the BSE, respectively.
Bank of India will not resort to panic selling and is open to offer funds to brokers needing additional liquidity in the face of the stock market mayhem, a top bank official said.
Several Ahmedabad-based stock brokers are playing a key role in arranging dummy investors. The 'investors' apply for their full quota of shares. After allotment, they transfer the shares to the accounts of the brokers fronting for the operators in exchange for a 2.5 per cent commission.
'It is like a chicken-and-egg situation.' 'All these product tweaks are innovative, but traders won't move unless there is liquidity.' 'And liquidity cannot be generated until traders move.'
While a 6 million pounds (Rs 56 crore) fine has already been imposed on the Indian businessman, Rameshkumar Goenka, the Financial Conduct Authority took action against three more persons today in the same case by imposing total fines of about Rs 2 crore (Rs 20 million) on them.
Sixteen years after the stock market scam orchestrated by Harshad S Mehta, the custodian has put up eight apartments in a complex called Madhuli, which is occupied by his family in upscale Worli, for sale.
Emkay Share and Stock Brokers said that over the last couple of months, there has been a lot of disturbance in the telecom sector due to the regulatory issues on spectrum allocation, resulting in the gross under performance of the telecom shares.
SBI was the top loser in the Sensex pack, shedding over 1 per cent, followed by Reliance Industries, Tech Mahindra, M&M, L&T, Bharti Airtel, IndusInd Bank and HDFC. NSE Nifty slipped 31.60 points to 15,824.45.
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If the gift is received from a relative, there is no tax implication. But if the gift is received from a non-relative and exceeds Rs 50,000 in value during a financial year, the entire value of the gift is taxable.
NSE asks brokers to strictly follow rules for investor funds.
The regulator is unhappy with the exchange in the market crash case that occurred in 2012.
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