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The hay-days for Indian stock Markets seem to have come back again – Positive rally for past 8 days has seen Indian markets scale peaks seen more than 30 months back. I have been off-and-on trader in Stock Markets and most of my…

In ultra-fast world, where the stock market is concerned, a few minutes can affect one’s profit and loss margin. Stock market prices and market fluctuations can literally change in minutes. The facility to trade stocks from a mobile enables…

The MakeMyTrip (MMYT) stock surged 89% on its listing last Thursday, and has been the best IPO to list in the US since Athena health Inc’s IPO in 1997 which surged 97% on listing. MakeMyTrip raised $70 million by selling 5 million shares…

The buzzword in stock market today is Microfinance entering Capital markets. SKS Microfinance is going to raise Rs. 163 Crore through its IPO which is in news for few weeks. The Hyderabad based institution will be priced at Rs. 985 per…

Let me take you back by 6 years, when I took a plunge into stock markets - Infosys was a marquee name for me then and, may be, even now. And, at that time I was not even aware that TCS was a bigger company than Infosys (Oops! my ignorance).…

Indian stock Market closed at a high of above 18000 after two and half years bringing cheers to many stock market investors – Last couple of years, starting Jan 22, 2008 have been quite tough – Sensex had dipped to 8000 levels from a high…

Ring! Ring! Didn’t hear it? Worry not; you will hear it ringing louder as the telecom sector is up for re-rating on the back of brokerage up gradation. First, a look at the telecom stocks on the Indian bourses: Date: July 9, 2010 -…

The 2008 recession has turned the global currency picture upside down. The impact of the slowdown has been felt harder on the advanced economies such as the US, UK and Europe, leading to substantial drain in their currency strength and…

Better late than never! That’s the phrase that came to my mind when the Manmohan Singh government, finally, decided to partially decontrol the fuel prices yesterday in order to bring down the burden of subsidies from the increasing…

Changing climate and growing concern over carbon emissions have led to immense focus on the development of Green/Clean technologies. It is well understood that these clean/green technologies posses the key for the future growth and…

Indian benchmark index Sensex had peaked out at 18000 on April 7. Later, it touched a panic low of 16000 on May 25. This slump of 2000 points can be safely assumed to have been visited on the back of Greece-led European crisis, mixed with…

On April 2, we had posted under this very section of Friday Finance, regarding India’s first ever IDR issue by Standard Chartered Bank aiming to raise anywhere between $500-750 million through issue of 24 crore IDRs. Every 10 IDR will be…

We have already see that Indians are currently most optimistic investors on back of robust growth in the domestic consumption market and a positive economic outlook. Having said that the first question that would come to the…

The development and growth taking place in the Asian continent seems to be the latest buzz on the street. The Asian economy led by India and China is chugging at the fastest growth in the world marking a crucial shift in the economic power…

Usually fundamentals take a backseat in the eyes of extreme market conditions. Sentiment led by fear and greed factors come on fore during pessimistic and optimistic times, respectively. However, when market enters a phase of normalcy…

On Friday, the SEBI passed a stunning order of banning 14 life insurance companies involved in serving ULIP products, on the ground that they were akin to mutual funds and may need to obtain registration from SEBI to proceed further with…

Isn’t rebound equal to the recovery? Not really! Read on… The rebound in the market valuations in the global markets in 2009 has not turned out to be an all-inclusive recovery around the sphere. Despite impressive gains registered during…

New financial year 2010-11 kicks-off much on the back of pompous global recovery witnessed during the second half of the FY 2009-10. And, equity markets are no laggards in terms of catching these cues before hand. However, the markets…

Those investing in equity markets must be aware of the market mantra - that large-cap stocks yield lower returns than mid-cap counters. Mid-cap companies are emerging companies with ability to grow faster than their larger counterparts…

In what could be termed as one of the rare notifications – related to the IDR Rules 2004 - passed by the government in as early as 2004, but gets tapped by an overseas company only after 6 years of notification of the law, in 2010 now. The…