On the side-lines of a FICCI conference, the SEBI chairman, Ajay Tyagi, underlined the need to protect the interests of small retail investors better in the case of new-age IPOs. Tyagi was obviously referring to the slew of digital IPOs that have hit

The National Stock Exchange has vide it circular dated 22nd December 2021 has decided to reduce the number of weekly option expiries from 7 consecutive expiries to 4 consecutive expiries. This will only be applicable to the pure weekly expiries and w

Read here about breakout stocks, its meaning and what are the breakout stocks for today. Breakout Stocks: What are the breakout stocks for today? A breakout is a phase where stock price moves outside a consolidation with increased volumes. Such

It was a victory of sorts for the Subhash Chandra (Essel) family. When the deal between Sony Pictures and Zee Entertainment was finally approved by the shareholders, there were two things that worked in favour of the promoter group. Subhash Chandr

Wipro has announced plans to acquire Texas based Edgile for a consideration of $230 million. Edgile is an emerging player in the area of cybersecurity, which has assumed importance as more of business activities either go online or more of the data g

In a rather swift move, SEBI (which currently regulates the commodity derivatives markets) suspended futures and options trading in a slew of agricultural commodities for a period of 1 year. These agri contracts include chana, mustard-seed, crude pal

When we talk of a Fed taper, the memories of 2013 are still fresh in the mind. Back in August 2013, the US Fed announced for the first time since the global financial crisis of 2008 that it would start to taper the bond buying. It resulted in FPIs

The market plunge in the last few days has been quite stark, but the markets have been gradually falling for the last 2 months. Actually, in closing terms, the Nifty peaked on 18-October at a level of 18,477 levels. As on 20-December mid-day, the Nif

The government has announced the cut in GST rates on ethanol meant for blending from 18% to 5%. It may be recollected that the government had pushed back the target of 20% ethanol blending in petrol from 2025 to 2030. This sharp cut in GST is in

Breakout Stocks: What are the breakout stocks for today? A breakout is a phase where stock price moves outside a consolidation with increased volumes. Such breakouts generally lead to good price movement in short term and this is one of

Read here about breakout stocks, its meaning and what are the breakout stocks for today. Breakout Stocks: What are the breakout stocks for today? A breakout is a phase where stock price moves outside a consolidation with increased volumes. Such

In the last couple of years, some interesting trends have been evident in the stock markets. Firstly, there has been a surge in demat accounts and trading accounts in the Indian securities market. Secondly, there has been a huge millennial digital sa