Stocks below a certain size in terms of market capitalisation don't attract much institutional interest
Investment advisers believe that it makes little sense to swap assets (shares) accumulated over time for an expense (holiday). "Selling shares of a blue-chip company only reflects that you don't believe in it," said Gaurav Mashruwala, a certified financial planner.
More than 350 moguls lost their billionaire status this year. Some will make comebacks, while others will have to live with being a mere millionaire.
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.
Dr Reddy's Laboratories & Strides Arcolabs are at a risk of raiders as their promoter holdings are less than 26%. Promoters of Dr Reddy's have 25.15% stake as on Dec 31, 2007 and the share value of the company has dipped 19.9 per cent since January 1 this year. The Bangalore-based Strides Arcolab had only 18.82% promoter-holding as on Dec 31, 2007. The stock price of the company has gone down 34% in the same period. The promoters are taking steps to correct the situation.
Gold prices crashed by Rs 115 per ten gram and silver plunged by Rs 375 per kilo in the bullion market in Mumbai on Tuesday due to heavy stockists' selling after steep fall in the international prices.
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.
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Gold prices crashed by Rs 105 per ten gram on the bullion market in Mumbai on Friday due to heavy offering by stockists after a sharp fall in New York prices.
The onshore yuan trading band is tightly controlled.
Valuations of broking companies have halved since January 2008. Patient investors can start accumulating selective stocks with a long-term perspective.
In the wake of market crash on Thursday following the finance minister's proposal to levy a 0.15% turnover tax on securities transactions, Sebi said there was no need to panic as the proposal will be applicable only after the Finance Bill is passed.
When it comes to the average assets under management among the top five mutual funds, there has been a shuffle in positions. While Reliance Mutual Fund has been able to maintain the number one position at Rs 700 billion, ICICI Prudential has been pushed to number four from second spot by HDFC Mutual Fund. ICICI Prudential was above HDFC by Rs 73 billion in January-end 2008. But at the end of December, HDFC's assets were up by Rs 48.79 billion over that of ICICI Prudential.
With intermittent disruptions in the supply chain of raw materials from China, the Indian pharma industry has braced itself with bigger inventory. Even smaller drug makers are now carrying a month of buffer stock of key raw materials, said industry insiders. The lockdown in various Chinese provinces, including Shanghai, is likely to delay shipments by two weeks to a month, said domestic players. Shipments are critical for the Indian drug industry, which imports 70 per cent of its raw material from China.
The recent stock market crash has been particularly harsh on one investment category -- mid cap stocks/funds. Compared to their large cap peers, mid cap stocks/funds have fallen more sharply. The view that many frustrated investors might take is that investing in mid caps was a bad idea in the first place. And they can't really be blamed, in many ways mid caps were presented as an opportunity to make quick money without informing the investor of the higher risk involved.
Since 2016, Sebi has made many rules to prevent unauthorised trading by stockbrokers. Yet, one comes across dozens of cases of blatant overtrading in client accounts, every year, leading to massive losses to investors, observes Debashis Basu.
The Sensex ended with a loss of 109 points at 5,650. The Nifty shed 39 points to close at 1,805.
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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The 15% meltdown in the Bangkok bourse following currency-control measures highlights the volatility of developing markets as the dollar swoons.
The BJP's investor cell has asked the Prime Minister to gag finance minister P Chidambaram from making any statements, saying his 'abnormal behaviour' was creating more trouble in the capital market.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered setting up of a six-member committee headed by former apex court judge Justice A M Sapre to investigate the recent Adani group shares crash triggered by the Hindenburg Research's fraud allegations and other regulatory aspects related to stock markets.
My expectation is for the present downturn to last for between one and three months, says the investment guru.
A recession is a decline in a country's gross domestic product (GDP) growth for two or more consecutive quarters of a year. A recession is also preceded by several quarters of slowing down.
Given wild swings, investors are wondering where the metal market is going. There was a strong uptrend in industrial metal through much of the last three years due to fears of supply chain issues - first due to Covid-19 and then due to the Ukraine War. That uptrend broke down as it became apparent that global growth would moderate as inflation rose and Western Europe (the EU plus the UK) went into a near-recession and China was in a rolling lockdown.
Just when stocks are seen as invincible, we should worry, warns Akash Prakash.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Even as the Indian benchmarks, the BSE Sensex and Nifty 50, crumbled over three per cent today, experts are optimistic about the Indian economy and believe investors can still make 30 per cent plus returns in 2015
The report said not only was the government's $500 billion infrastructure programme on the back burner, but the spread between private and public sector borrowing costs had widened, which is bad news for private investment spending. CLSA said tax revenues were crashing. It forecast that the public sector deficit, already 11 per cent of the GDP this fiscal year, would rise to 14 per cent in FY09/10.
Normal monsoon makes FMCG, automobile and consumer durable companies optimistic about growth prospects
Small stocks made a dashing comeback in 2020 after delivering negative returns in the last two years as increased retail investor participation in pandemic times saw small-cap index surging up to 31 per cent and outperforming the bigger benchmark gauge. This year turned out to be eventful for the equity market, witnessing bearish and bullish sentiments at different points of time. While the initial part of COVID-ravaged 2020 saw the bears in full force amid concerns related to the pandemic and lockdowns hurting economic activities, bulls made a comeback towards the latter half of the year. As the market swayed with many lows as well as highs, small and mid-cap indices emerged as markets favourites in 2020.
Stock market crash: TCS sheds $21 billion in market capitalisation, Infosys $7 billion and Wipro around $3 billion
The Pharma sector has underperformed the market and their performances have not been that bad for them to lag behind. I guess they are catching up with other index stocks, says market expert Pranav Sanghavi.
The employee stock options, which lost its charm following the dot-com bust of late 90s and crashing markets, are regaining popularity with more and more companies using them to attract and retain talent, say industry insiders.
The Securities Appellate Tribunal chief Justice Kumar Rajaratnam has resigned amid controversy over the UBS Securities case relating to the stock market crash last year.
An investor would be better off concentrating on the job on hand than to spend a lot of time towards investments
What should you do when the stock markets show no signs of stabilising and you lose money by the day?
The markets had been on an upward trajectory since August 2013.
