Finally after 2 years of continuous upward revisions RBI, in its annual monetary policy for 2012-13, slashed the policy interest rates by 50 basis points surprising analysts and markets. They were expecting a rate cut of 25 bps, but RBI surprised them all by being aggressive. The repo rates
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What happens when the stock price of the country’s largest IT giant tanks 13% in a single session? The markets go into a frenzy, analysts go into an overdrive and investors fret. That’s exactly what happened when Infosys posted disappointing Q4 results on 13 April combined with the double
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As a shareholder how many times have you actually bothered to sift through companies’ annual reports packed with data, numbers, facts, information? Unless you are a Chartered Accountant, a Finance professional or someone who holds deep interest in business, it’s unlikely that you will take time out to go
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Initial Public Offering (IPO) has lost its sheen on the Dalal Street since a long time now. Invariably, the sentiment in the IPO market is directly proportional to the optimism-count in the secondary market. Now that the market sentiment has improved since more than a month, led by brightening
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BSE Sensex is back to its winning habit – the Indian benchmark index has crossed a key psychological resistance of 18000 to be comfortably perched at the highest level since August 2011, backed by emergence of favorable macroeconomic scenario over the last one month. Not surprisingly, leading the race
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What an oxymoron! Reliance Industries (RIL), the largest Indian conglomerate, is going through a stagnation phase in terms of its earnings performance, yet being the country’s most valued firm. For almost a year now, RIL has been a dragger on the benchmark indices – with its share price dipping
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Year 2011 is history now – I do not wish to start this post with its reference, but the year gone by was fraught with so much of pain and uncertainty, that it has become imperative for me to formulate an essay on top 2012 resolutions for the bruised
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2011 was not a very Happy year for investors in Indian Stock Markets – Indian as well as international investors lost money to the tune of lakh’s of crore rupees. Benchmark Index lost over 20% from the start of the year. This year though, Government is taking steps to
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Even as India Inc moves forward with its Q2 fiscal earnings, the top Wall Street companies are slowly oozing out with their Q3 results performance amid slowdown and deficit-reeling US economy. While the global sentiment is mired by the unanimous downgrade of Spain’s creditworthiness by three credit rating agencies
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NSE Nifty is down almost 18% from its November 2010 peak of 6300 points on the back of the US losing its top-notch AAA rating, unabated sovereign crisis in the euro zone and high domestic inflation. Well, that’s the tell-tale story related to the benchmark index. But, looking into
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