Whether you give stocks held for more/less than a year, benefits are nominal; donating cash is better.
Investors were seen in a cheerful mood and widened their positions in frontliners as well as midcap and smallcap stocks to mark the beginning of their new accounts
'By entering at an early age, they stand a better chance of developing into skilled investors.'
The wider NSE Nifty too fell by 20.15 points or 0.19 per cent to end at 10,749.75.
The majority of global equity trading and a significant proportion of trading in bonds, currencies, commodities and derivatives, is done on electronic platforms
'While renegotiating the deal, it is likely that Anil Ambani could ask for a huge compensation from RIL to satisfy the ADAG firms' shareholders, a broker closer to the Ambanis said.
Sentiments remained upbeat for yet another session following healthy gains across Asian and a higher opening at European markets
The BJP legislature party in Karnataka will meet in Bangalore on Wednesday for the first time after the party's central leadership brokered peace between Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and dissidents recently.
In yet another step to attract foreign money, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed non-resident investors to acquire shares of listed Indian companies through stock exchanges under the foreign direct investment (FDI) scheme.
Given the very fluid state of national politics where a party can emphatically say diametrically different things at different times, it is hard to understand the basis on which brokers made this judgment.
Last year, Nikhil Kamath and his brother Nithin jettisoned into a club of the country's 100 wealthiest with their net worth pegged at around Rs 24,000 crore
Scams happen with high regularity because the price of getting caught is insignificant. Aggrieved investors run from the police to already clogged courts to find redress for issues for which financial regulators have been specifically set up. For over 3,750 years we have known what to do, but we don't do it, observes Debashis Basu.
The benchmark Sensex gained 4,642.84 points, or 16.%, while the broader NSE Nifty surged 1,572.85 points, or 18.20% during this period.
It pegs the value of these companies at Rs 2 lakh crore (Rs 2 trillion).
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Wednesday said short-selling and securities lending and borrowing will be operationalised from April 21.Short-selling refers to the practice of selling a stock which the seller does not own at the time of trade with the hope of buying it back at a lower price.
Market regulator is trying to build a large team of software experts for efficient monitoring and surveillance
Sellers of financial products know how to play with your emotions. That's the reason you end up buying a financial product that you shouldn't.
The Bombay Stock Exchange's journey from being a brokers' club to becoming a professionally managed entity seems to have got derailed once again, with a spate of resignations in the past three months.
More than 30 entities, including brokers and high net worth individuals, have come under the scanner of market watchdog Sebi for unusual trading activities on the day of Lok Sabha election results.
Brokers hope of a stable government after elections and signs of economy returning to growth path.
Sebi said it was closely monitoring the situation at the NSE following the disruption of trading due to technical issues.
Yes Bank was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, surging 3.76 per cent, followed by SBI at 3.18 per cent.
Top losers in the Sensex pack include Bharti Airtel, Infosys, Asian Paints, RIL, Coal India, HDFC Bank, HDFC, TCS, ONGC and M&M, falling up to 3.09 per cent.
The 50-share NSE Nifty shed some ground to settle at 8,699.40 points, up 40.30 points, or 0.47 per cent
It will take a big change in economic policy and very radical, coordinated action among all advanced and emerging-market economies to avoid disaster.
Just because you work for a blue chip company does not mean that you should invest most of your money in it.
The NSE Nifty ended 55.75 points, or 0.57 per cent, higher at 9,912.80 after moving between 9,925.75 and 9,882.
FIIs have offloaded shares of Bajaj Corp, Nestle, Jyothy Laboratories and Britannia.
On Sunday, exchanges and brokers got support against CTT from the apex commodities market regulator--the Forward Markets Commission. The regulator said that it would take up the demand for CTT withdrawal with finance minister Chidambaram.
Sebi has proposed to examine the margining system of stock market, in an effort to make the system easier for retail investor.
Gold loan companies offer loans to financially-excluded customers and MSMEs by enabling them to monetise their gold without the need for documentary proof of income
The Sensex resumed lower at 28,566.50 and dropped further to 28,183.32 before finishing at 28,227.39, showing a loss of 490.52 points or 1.71 per cent.
Market sentiment suffered a jolt after other Asian markets closed with widespread losses and European markets dropped in early trade
With pressure mounting on 18 regional exchanges to demutualise, some bourses have decided to shut shop, while others are going in for demutualisation - leading to an eventual consolidation.
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