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This has been a long weekend and don’t we just love long weekends? Anyhow, it appears that the same cannot be said for the top ranking companies of the country. Heavy losses were suffered by these companies in the past week,…

PM Modi has inaugurated India’s first ever International Stock Exchange at Gujarat International Financial Tec (GIFT) City, which is also India’s first smart city built from scratch. A wholly owned subsidiary of Bombay Stock Exchange…

Stock market is driven by market sentiments, emotions and fear. And more often than not, few unscrupulous elements manipulate these factors to bring in artificial demand/supply of particular stocks and commodities, which brings in…

Café Coffee Day’s debut IPO was launched yesterday, but as per reports coming in, investors were not too enthusiastic about it. Meanwhile, IndiGo has announced their IPO launch on October 26th, through which they aim to raise close to…

Just when the whole world is getting digitalized to the core , SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) is laying tracks to introduce e-IPO’s for the first time. In an initiative to make raising capital a task a click easy for all…

Raising funds is nothing less than a herculean task except that even Hercules would not want to carry! Especially in today’s scenario, with all the compliances and procedures, companies most love to go to their closest bank for funds. But…

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is planning to issue guidance for all listed companies, which will essentially pull the plug on social media information sharing. As per reports, it will be now mandatory for all listed…

IPOs or Initial Public Offerings are exciting because it is just like a lottery. Investors buy the lottery tickets years in advance, hoping that when the curtains are raised, they hit jackpot. And one such jackpot has been won by a…

Before I start, let me tell you that I am not a stock market expert. However, I have been dabbling in equity investments and stock trading for nearly 10 years and I have had my ups and downs. The article below gives a perspective of what…

This news has surely surprised me, and it is probably a first world over. SEBI is mulling upon a refund plan for IPO investments in Indian stock markets. According to a article in WSJ, Securities and Exchange Board of India is planning to…

Economy is at its worst, Rupee’s value is slipping, and estimates of GDP growth are falling by each report. When all looks so glum then why is Sensex the index of growth booming? Firstly economy and Sensex are two different things, but…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Are the high-flying “new economy” stocks crashing or just grinding through a patch of rough turbulence? Well, this circumspect question often crops-up in the mind of investors when relatively young companies witness sharp correction,…

The current economic situation is better termed as 'uncertain' rather than blatantly labeled as a 'recession'. Investors in India who have their money invested in Equity and Mutual Funds are probably tearing their hair apart because there…

Yes, Narayana Murthy has retired as the Chairman of Infosys. Yes, Infosys has drawn flak for visa issues for employees in its foreign operations. Yes, current COO S.D Shibulal has accepted that Infosys is facing a challenging environment…

The unthinkable has happened! Mukesh Ambani led Reliance has been upstaged as India's largest company by market capitalization and the one who has managed to achieve this feat is by no means a veteran in the Stock Market. Coal India,…