If you compare the current closing of the F&O series with the previous month, what are the top performers? Obviously, the Nifty-50 would become a very small sample and the Nifty 500 would become too large a sample with too many non-F&O stocks

In a circular issued late on 25th November, the NSE announced the addition of 2 stocks to the list of eligible futures and options trading. The two companies are Aditya Birla Capital (ABCAPITAL) and Honeywell Automation India (HONAUT). These stocks h

In what was a long anticipated move, SEBI laid down detailed operating norms for silver ETFs. Like gold ETFs which invest in gold as an underlying and issue units against such underlying, the silver ETFs will have graded silver as an underlying asset

The story of Paytm has been a story of extreme volatility in the first 5 days of trading. The stock lost close to 41% from its IPO price of Rs.2,150 to touch a low of Rs.1,271. However, from the lows of Monday, the stock gained around 40% over the ne

Sameer Gehlaut, one of the original promoters of Indiabulls Housing Finance, may be looking to reduce his stake to below the statutory minimum required to be classified as a promoter. Currently, Sameer Gehlaut holds about 21% stake in Indiabulls H

In an interesting move in the stock markets, the stock of Reliance Industries was the top gainer on the Nifty on 25th November, gaining 6.4% in a single day. This bounce comes after a couple of days of weakness due to the stake sale in the O2C busine

The announcement to go ahead with privatization of PSU banks was made in the Union Budget 2021. During the budget presentation, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had committed that 2 PSU banks, other than IDBI Bank, would be privatized during the y

The much awaited Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Digital Currency Bill, 2021 is likely to be taken up for discussion in the Winter session of Parliament, which commences on 29th November and will get over on 23rd December. It is 1 among the 26 bi

On 23 November, the Indian government announced that it would release nearly 5 million barrels of oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The decision has an interesting background. Just a couple of days earlier, Joe Biden had announced th

In a circular issued after market hours on 23-November, SEBI announced that it was postponing the implementation of the framework for segregation and monitoring of collateral at client level to 28th February 2022. In addition, even the implementat

In a move that could set the tone for the new paradigm in the telecom industry, Bharti Airtel took the lead in raising pre-paid tariffs by 20-25%. These new tariffs would be effective from 26-November. The pre-paid set of customers are normally th

In a move that was not exactly surprising, Reliance Industries and Saudi Aramco, have mutually decided to rework and reassess their agreement . Under the 2019 original deal, Reliance was to sell 20% in its oil-to-chemicals business to Saudi Aramco fo