Archive for October, 2010

Sensex Tumbles 216 Points on Weak Global Cues

Stocks dropped on Wednesday, triggered mainly by weak sentiments in Asian markets  on concern over rising dollar, ahead of the expiry of October series of futures and option contracts. . European markets saw a gap-down opening, but recovered later, helping the market to gain some ground in the last half-an-hour of trade. The BSE Sensex trimmed 216.02 points, [...]

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SHIFT IN GOLD DEMAND: PERFORMANCE OF ETFs

Gold’s appeal as an alternative investment option remains high. Historically equities have performed better than gold barring certain minor aberrations here and there. However, asset allocation is an important aspect of any investment strategy. By balancing asset classes of different correlations, investors hope to maximize returns and minimize risk. While many investors may believe that [...]

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GLOBAL BOARD OF TRADE (GBOT)

Adding another trading floor in the whole list of numerous exchanges around the world, Global Board of Trade (GBOT) ”the first international multi-asset exchange”  based out of Mauritius, was officially launched by that country’s Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam. .   GBOT is a wholly owned subsidiary of Financial Technologies (INDIA) Limited, a leading provider of [...]

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Weekly Update 25th – 29th October

Losses due to profit taking in the Indian markets during initial part of the week were recouped seeing the huge response for Coal India offering especially from the overseas investors. The issue attracted bids that exceeded the combined gross domestic product of Latvia and Iceland. However most of the Asian markets corrected in the week [...]

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Equity News Update

Economy . •India’s food price index rose 15.53% while the fuel price index climbed 11.14% in the year to October 9. In the prior week, annual food and fuel inflation stood at 16.37% and 11.14%, respectively. .   Pharmaceuticals . . •Wockhardt has received tentative approval from the United States Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) [...]

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CIL sets IPO record; to list on Nov 4

India’s IPO market created history on Thursday with state-owned Coal India share issuer in the becoming the biggest country, beating Reliance Power’s 2008 initial public offering. . At the time of going to press, the CIL issue was subscribed 15.26 times, collecting Rs 2,36,113.28 crore. The shares will debut on the market on November 4, a day before [...]

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RED HERRING PROSPECTUS: A CAREFUL EXERCISE

Initial Public Offering (IPO) is an exercise done by a company for raising capital by going public. IPO is raised generally in two ways either through fixed price or through Book Building. Generally, most of the companies follow the book building process. For this purpose, the company assigns the Merchant Banker as a Book Running [...]

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Turmeric………Golden Spice

Turmeric is a very important spice in India from ancient times. India is the biggest producer with account of nearly 90% of the world’s total production and consume 80%of it. Turmeric, basically a tropical plant of ginger family is the rhizome or underground stem Global Trade and production The main producing countries of turmeric are [...]

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Weekly Update 18th – 22nd October 2010

Most of the world markets rallied in the week gone by on the buzz of further quantitative easing by U.S. Without giving details about the strategies on how the central bank will act its Nov. 2-3 meeting, Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke said additional monetary stimulus may be warranted because inflation is too low and unemployment [...]

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SMC Global Securities Selects SunGard Kiodex Risk Workbench

SMC Global Securities, one of India’s largest brokering firms, has selected SunGard’s Kiodex Risk Workbench, a fully integrated Web-based risk management solution, to help its clients in hedging their price risk in foreign exchange, commodities and interest rates. . SMC Global Securities also selected Kiodex Global Market Data for its independent market data needs. . [...]

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