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Trump behind Ant IPO suspension? Ant IPO has been cancelled at Shanghai Stock Exchange which was about to be the world’s largest IPO. So, what went wrong? According to Reuters, Trump administration has put on hold an effort to blacklist Ant Group Co Ltd, the massive Chinese financial technology company. Ant Financials started under Alibaba […]

Due to the global pandemic, a new wave of work-style has been highly prevalent- the ‘Work from Home’ norm. Entire workstations and offices from almost every industry sector, have shifted to remote working, becoming highly reliant on cloud and IT services for better coordination of work. It has been reported that after the news of […]

According to a report published by HDFC Securities in March 2019, the Indian online trading industry took a quick rise. The trading shares surged from 22% in FY13 to 29% in FY18. This also depicted that an increasing number of millennials are moving towards trading in the stock market, as financial awareness rises. This brings […]

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, dragging their valuation down terribly. Nine of the top ten most valued companies in […]

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 (BSE), India International Exchange or INX will allow traders to buy and sell stocks for 22 hours in a day. […]

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 illegal profits for their companies. Rumors and misinformation triggers such ripples, which can devastate the small-time investor, and can ruin all […]

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 Rs 2500 crore. IndiGo IPO InterGlobe Aviation Ltd, which owns IndiGo Airlines has announced their initial […]

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 the retail investors, SEBI plans to make raising an IPO (Initial Public […]

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 this year saw, some companies make the most risk-averse investors want to go for a […]

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 companies to announce any market sensitive information to SEBI first, before revealing them on social media […]

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 mysterious India born investor, who has just made $3.8 billion after Twitter’s IPO went […]

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 I think is in store for Indian stock markets […]

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 force founders of IPO companies to pay back the amount lost by […]

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 a booming Sensex infuses investor confidence in economy. Hence it is important for […]

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 at which Indian banks borrow money […]

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 whammy of a lower guidance for […]

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 through a large annual report PDF […]

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 among the key index (S&P CNX […]

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 by almost 35% in 2011; adversely […]

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, especially, followed by rise to unprecedented price-to-earnings ratios during the bull phase. In new economy the value is created by intangible […]