The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Tuesday proposed a service platform called MITRA (Mutual Fund Investment Tracing and Retrieval Assistant) for investors to trace inactive and unclaimed mutual fund (MF) folios. The new platform is aimed at preventing the risk of fraudulent redemptions of any inactive or unclaimed folios in cases where
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has barred foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) from issuing offshore derivative instruments (ODIs) with derivatives as underlying assets or using derivatives to hedge their ODIs in India in bid to curb regulatory arbitrage . Also ReadSEBI may relax AIF norms: Ananth Narayan “A foreign portfolio investor shall not
Capital market regulator SEBI appointed a forensic auditor to look into financial statements of New Delhi-based real estate company TARC between years FY21-23, citing that disclosure by the company may have been ‘detrimental to the interest of investors’. The company’s stock lost 10% on Tuesday and ended at Rs 189.55. It has a market capitalisation
Taking cues from other Asian equity markets and weighed down by an across-the-board selloff, the benchmark indices fell over 1% on Tuesday. The Sensex remained under selling pressure throughout the session and closed 1,064 points, or 1.30%, lower at 80,684.45, marking its second consecutive day of decline. Similarly, the NSE Nifty fell 332.25 points, or
The Indian rupee was mostly unchanged today and trade closed at Rs 84.90 against the US dollar. This was a strengthening of 1 paisa from its previous all-time low of 84.91 on Monday.The marginal uptick came despite a weakening economic outlook, a widening trade deficit, and weak domestic markets weighing on investor sentiment. At the
By Ravi Singh The benchmark indices began the week with a negative bias, suggesting a period of consolidation following a marginal gain in the previous week. For the continuation of last week’s momentum, the Nifty needs to firmly close above 24,850. In the derivatives market, the Nifty November weekly options exhibit significant open interest at
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) may relax regulations for alternative investment funds (AIF) as recent regulatory measures have reassured the watchdog about reduced circumvention practices, a senior SEBI official said. Speaking at the CII AIF Summit, SEBI whole-time-member Ananth Narayan said, “Now that we have these checks and balances in place, I
The markets have been trading in range for most part of the week. The Nifty and the Sensex closed around 1.3 percent lower ach. The Sensex ended the day in deep red, plunging by 1.30 per cent or 1064.12 points to close at 80,684.45. The Nifty too mirrored the move and closed at 24,336.00, a
With Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman all set to table the Union Budget 2025 in Lok Sabha on February 1, the real estate segment is betting on industry status for the sector, incentives for affordable housing and sops for sustainable development. The real estate industry is hoping for transformative measures in the form of incentives and
Investors lost a record Rs 13.3 lakh crore in the first fortnight of the current calendar year — the highest-ever in absolute terms. In percentage terms, the 3% decline was the second-highest in a decade. Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) were the primary drivers of the downturn, selling shares worth $4.9 billion (Rs 42,363 crore) during
The October-December quarter broadly marked a turning point for domestic IT firms, with signs of revival in discretionary spending and a healthy order book. This was met with some optimism by analysts as the quarter is seasonally a weak one due to furloughs. While Infosys and Wipro exceeded Street expectations, TCS and HCLTech were not
U.S. stocks rallied on Friday to close out a strong week on optimism over the health of the economy and path of interest rates as investors braced for a slew of policy changes under the incoming Trump administration. The S&P 500 and Dow Industrials registered their biggest weekly percentage gains since early November and the
Jio Financial Services on Friday reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 295 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2024, which was flat versus Rs 294 crore posted in the year-ago period. On a sequential basis, net profit sharply dropped from Rs 689 crore in Q2FY25, as the company received significant profits from associates