The Initial Public Offer (IPO) market has been abuzz over the last 2 years. While IPOs helped raise nearly $2 billion in the fiscal year 2016-17, the fiscal year 2017-18 is likely to see well over $5 billion raised through the IPO markets. When we talk about IPOs we normally use the terms IPO, FPO …
Ask any stock market trader why they lost money and the standard answer would be that they got their price prediction wrong. But is it really possible to predict stock prices? Prices are after all a series of random movements and believing that you can predict prices is audacious; to say the least. The answer …
Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) have been aggressively selling across emerging markets and India has been no exception. In the 4 weeks of August, FIIs have pulled out over Rs.15,000 crore from Indian equity markets with the trend turning sharply negative due to a combination of geopolitical uncertainty and weak earnings season in the June quarter. …
During the week, the Tatas have called a special meeting on September 21st to consider converting Tata Sons from a Public Limited company into a Private Limited Company. This decision needs to be seen in the light of the recent differences that cropped up between the Tatas and the Mistry family leading to the eventual …
IPL 2018 is on in full swing and it will be another 3 weeks before the eventual winners are known. But IPL 2018, like in each of the past 11 years, has had its share of thrills, adventures, disappointments and some earnest lessons. Interestingly, there are some interesting lessons that the stock markets in general …
If you did a casual search for “Indian pharma companies” on Google, then there will be a typically depressing story that will be underlying these search results. Consider a few of them… Offshore transfer of IP assets by pharma companies under RBI radar… 5 Reasons why Pharma Stocks could still come under pressure… Pricing pressure …
As Indian PSU banks face the big challenge of expanding their asset books without expanding the NPAs, the question of bank capital is back again. If Indian banks are to adhere to the Basel III norms by 2019, they will require billions of dollars in capital. The question is; where will the money come from? …
Ok, just as an option has a buyer, it also has a seller. Is that not what any market is all about? Unlike the option buyer who has unlimited profit potential and limited risk, the option seller is in a converse situation. An option seller has unlimited loss potential but his profits are limited to …
On the 31st of July SBI announced a cut in deposit rates for small savings accounts up to a deposit value of Rs.1 crore. Currently, all savings accounts of SBI pay an annual interest of 4% on the minimum average balance between the 1st and the 10th of the month. Effective immediately, SBI has decided …
The recent special bulletin brought out by the NSE on the occasion of the index touching 10,000 had an interesting comparison over the last 12 years time frame. Back in 2005, the weightage of banking and financial services in the overall Nifty was just about 12%, with automobiles, oil and IT having around the same …
