The recent surge in crude oil prices could shave off the gains made by India Inc in profit margins in the past few quarters. Worse, it comes at a time when consumer demand in the country is slipping and major global economies are witnessing a slowdown. A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that the margin expansion accounted for three-fourths of the rise in the listed firms' operating profit between the April-June quarter (Q1) of FY23 and Q1FY24, and only a quarter of profits gains came from revenue growth.
'Very few of small investors stay invested for those three or four or five years.' 'If there's like a six month, one-year period when market is not doing well, you exit.' 'After the market has run up, you get in again.' 'This way you will never make returns.'
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The series is held together by a superbly astute performance by Gagan Dev Riar, who moves from cheerful conman to menacing criminal with remarkable skill, observes Deepa Gahlot.
The index widened its loss towards the fag-end on emergence of intense selling in heavyweights like ITC, RIL and ICICI Bank. In percentage terms, however, Sun Pharma was the biggest loser with 9.39 per cent drop. Intra-day, the pharma major's shares tanked over 20 per cent.
China's malfunctioning stock markets remained semi-frozen.
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'Silicon Valley people are generally used to layoffs.' 'Every person who has been in the industry for 15-20 years would have been laid off at least 3-4 times.' 'In India, we aren't used to that concept.' 'So when it came here, people were shocked.'
In a big relief to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, pilot error was found to have caused the crash of the India-made Advance Light Helicopter 'Dhruv' in Ecuador in October, a probe conducted in the United States and India into the mishap has revealed. The crash, during a military parade on October 28 in the South American country, injuring two pilots, was considered a major setback to India's efforts to market its indigenous helicopters overseas.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear on Friday a plea seeking a direction to the Centre to constitute a committee monitored by a retired apex court judge to inquire and investigate into the Hindenburg Research report which has made a slew of allegations against the business conglomerate led by industrialist Gautam Adani.
Sensex crashed more than 1,000 points in opening trade. Asian stocks plunged too on Friday.
Investors took the Yes Bank event negatively because it raises a question on the stability of the overall Indian financial system.
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Even before the Wall Street the world's stock market hub in New York - opened on the 20th anniversary of the original Black Monday today, the domestic stock market's benchmark Sensex plunged over 438 points.
Officials said Sebi is closely in touch with RBI on the market developments.
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Asia has opened largely in the green ahead of a raft of Chinese data due during the day.
A day after Dalal Street witnessed its bloodiest battering, NSE chief Chitra Ramkrishna on Tuesday said there is no need for panic as in an inter-connected world, global developments are bound to have an impact on all markets.
The US dollar strengthened against the world currencies after the Turkish lira dived almost 8 per cent, sparking a sell-off in global markets.
The stock market nearly made up for the 1,744 points it tanked on Wednesday after the government and regulator SEBI reassured investors there was no move to ban Participatory Notes (PNs) but only curb funds inflow.
A fresh PIL was filed on Thursday in the Supreme Court seeking a probe by multiple central government agencies under the supervision of a panel or a former apex court judge against the Adani Group of companies following allegations of fraud and share price manipulation made by the US-based Hindenburg Research.
Senior Executive Director & Co Head (Strategy) of Kotak Institutional Equities Sanjiv Prasad tells Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com that even if there are a number of challenges facing the Indian equity markets, there are certain sectors that offer a ray of hope.
Six entities including four foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) are under lens for suspicious trading in Adani group shares prior to the release of the damning Hindenburg report, the Supreme Court-appointed expert committee has said. There was a build up of short positions in the Adani scips prior to the January 24 release of the Hindenburg report, and substantial profits were booked thereafter as stocks crashed, the 178-page report said. A "short" position is generally the sale of a stock one does not own.
The broader economy risks a potential flight of foreign portfolio capital, therefore pressure on the rupee and more bad news on the stock market, warns T N Ninan.
An Indonesian airliner carrying 54 people went missing on Sunday after losing contact with ground control during a short flight in bad weather in the country's mountainous easternmost province of Papua, officials said.
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The NSE said it is investigating the matter and the abnormal orders that resulted in multiple trades at low prices.
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'In many parts of the country, the empty nest-and-empty-nest egg story is a painful boom-to-bust saga.' 'Among the old and young, it is hitting pockets hard, in a linked chain of debt-laden banks, corrupt politicians and builder mafias and disastrous government policies,' says Sunil Sethi.
The near-term prognosis isn't good. For the last three years, the Indian stock market has ridden to successive highs on a tsunami of forex inflows. A large proportion of that is through participatory notes. A lot of that money will flow out in the short run.
First Global's Vice-chairman Shankar Sharma said he had nothing to do with the market crash in early 2001 as alleged by the market regulator.
Among the 30-share basket, 27 stocks led by Bajaj Auto and Bharti Airtel ended with losses.
Tomato farmers from Haryana to Tamil Nadu have been forced to abandon their crop in the field or dump the harvest.
It is too early to judge if the fall in Nifty from an all-time high of 11,170 to February 12 closing of 10,539 is a big trend reversal or merely a short-term correction, says Devangshu Datta.
Major realty firms, including Emaar MGF and Sahara, on Tuesday approached market regulator Sebi for public offerings to raise collectively an over Rs 11,000 crore (Rs 110 billion), reflecting that sector has emerged from the worst of the global financial crisis.
Apart from signalling the shape of things to come, the stock markets are seen as an important source of funds for investment - so their health can be critical.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said although his outfit does not agree with the demand of anti-Bharatiya Janata Party outfits for a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe into allegations against the Adani group, it will not go against their stand for the sake of Opposition unity.
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