The global markets were up against negative data flows on 18th October. For the third quarter ended Sep-21, China reported GDP growth of just 4.9. That is a full 300 bps lower compared to 7.9 GDP growth reported in the Jun-21 quarter. The two major

SEBI has given its approval for the Rs.6,017 crore IPO of PB Fintech. Incidentally, like in most cases, this is another case of the digital brand being better known than the promoting company. PB Fintech is the company that owns and operates some of

If Aug-21 seemed like a good month with over 67 lakh passenger flying domestically, Sep-21 has done even better. The Sep-21 figure was higher than the August figure by 5.45 at 70.66 lakh passengers. These numbers were reported by the Directorate Gen

In an interesting development, the NCLT Mumbai Bench permitted Reliance Retail Ventures to call for an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) to seek approval of its creditors and shareholders for the Future group merger deal. The NCLT Mumbai Bench also

Hyderabad based Penna Cements, which had filed DRHP with SEBI for its proposed IPO about 2 months back, has secured IPO approval from SEBI. It can now go ahead with the IPO and can take up the next steps like filing the RHP with the Registrar of Comp

In a way Radhakishan Damani’s wealth creation has been synonymous with D-Mart (Avenue Supermarts). That is true and D-Mart alone accounts for over 97 of the total portfolio value of his holdings. However, Damani is also known to be one of th

Ashish Kacholia has emerged as a very focused value investor in mid-cap and small cap stocks in India. He floated Lucky Securities in 1995 but eventually went on to become one of India’s ace investors. As of the close of September 2021, Ashish K

In early trades on 18th October, the stock of PNB Finance was locked in lower circuit as a slew of brokers and analysts downgraded the PNB Housing stock. The downgrade came after PNB Housing and Carlyle decided to mutually call off the share placemen

Just a week after the government announced that Air India was being sold to the Tata group, Air India has come out with numbers. It just underlines that the bleeding of the national carrier continues almost relentlessly. This comes just a week after

In its latest meeting of shareholders, the board has approved the raising of funds to the tune of Rs.2,000 crore via the issue of securities. This could be via the issue of equity shares or other securities. The amount is likely to be raised in tranc

In the midst of the ongoing fracas between Invesco Fund and the Zee management, led by Punit Goenka, it emerges that Reliance walked in and then walked out of the deal to buy a strategic stake in Zee Entertainment. The Reliance group has confirmed th

With a slew of IPOs already slated to hit the primary market in the last week of October, there are more big IPOs getting lined up. Two more companies got SEBI approval for their proposed IPOs and can now seriously start actioning the IPO process.