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Big winners & losers after the Budget

Several stocks are riding high on the back of friendly proposals in the recent Budget; others have taken a beating and are sliding down

Sanket Dhanorkar and Ravi Samalad
Low MF assets speak volumes on investor apathy

Despite a booming economy and vibrant equity markets, equity assets under management at many mutual fund houses remain abysmally low

Yogesh Sapkale & Sanket Dhanorkar
SEBI asks all investors to pay 100% margin upfront for public issues

In a bid to create a level playing field between all investor participants, all investors, including QIBs, will now be required to make full payment during new share applications.

Moneylife Digital Team
Financial services stocks on a downward spiral

It is widely assumed that the stocks of financial companies, especially broking companies are correlated to the market. But the majority of stocks of financial services companies have been on a downward trend since May 2009

Debashis Basu
Local tailwind, global headwinds

The Budget measures will support a short-term and a long-term rally, but the market’s medium-term prospects are clouded by global worries

Ravi Samalad
Retail investors steer clear of Emmbi Polyarns & DB Realty IPOs; flop debut on BSE

Retail investors and employees have given a ‘thumbs down’ to both the IPOs; DB Realty listed at an 8% discount while Emmbi Polyarns shed 59% on its debut

Swapnil Suvarna & Pratibha Kamath
Sectoral winners and losers during the recent market fall

Out of the 49 sectors, sugar, the hot sector of late 2009, was the worst performer, crashing 22% whereas printing & publishing was down 21%

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IRFC bond issue leaves retail investors high and dry

With easy access, large players oversubscribed IRFC’s bond issue within a few hours, leaving small and individual players high and dry

Ravi Samalad
70% of Interlink Petroleum held in physical form; will help price-riggers

The bulk of Interlink’s shares are in physical form even as market punters peddle rumours about its oil find. This will help price-riggers

Moneylife Digital Team
Mutual fund outflows defy market trends

Investors have been withdrawing money virtually every month for the past 13 months—whether we are in a bull market or a bear market. This gives the lie to the fund industry’s notion that investors are merely booking profits


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Sanket Dhanorkar
Brokers to sell MFs, but many are not qualified
Trading of mutual fund (MF) units through stock exchanges is now a reality, but many brokers lack necessary qualifications to actually deal in MF schemes
Sucheta Dalal
SEBI board cannot quash order against NSDL: ex-CJI
Justice JS Verma says such quasi-judicial orders can only be reviewed and quashed “by a judicial forum with requisite jurisdiction, at the instance of a petitioner with standing to seek relief.”
BSE plans to launch mobile trading platform
In a move to increase retail penetration, the BSE is coming out with a mobile trading platform as well as websites in various regional languages
SEBI calls board meeting to dispose NSDL issues
SEBI's board meeting would ensure that with three whole-time members reporting to the chairman or the finance ministry and outside directors who are subject to their regulation, the NSDL issue will be buried
Viability of SEBI’s proposed SME platform remains a concern
SEBI has allowed exchanges to set up independent SME exchange platforms, but doubts persist over how far it will succeed at creating a thriving market in SMEs
Another SME trading platform; will it work this time?
The market regulator has allowed exchanges to set up a separate trading platform for SMEs; will it be any different from its previously failed attempts at creating exchanges for SMEs?
Orders that SEBI suppressed
What were the DSQ Software and Rajnarayan case all about? Sucheta Dalal looks at the two surprise orders revealed by the SEBI board. The two were in connection with NSDL's role in the DSQ Software case and that of Rajnarayan Capital Market Services
Biased austerity
The austerity move adopted by the babus got a new dimension when corporate affairs minister Salman Khurshid pointed out that even private sector companies should refrain from doling out obscene salaries.
Petition filed against SEBI in NSDL row
Aggrieved investor files PIL in Andhra Pradesh High Court asking for SEBI to be directed to publish the committee report that has been allegedly suppressed by the market regulator to keep its current chairman away from controversy
Sticky Wicket
IDBI Bank’s loan restructuring is highest among peers


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Big winners & losers after the Budget
Several stocks are riding high on the back of friendly proposals in the recent Budget; others have taken a beating and are sliding down
Low MF assets speak volumes on investor apathy
Despite a booming economy and vibrant equity markets, equity assets under management at many mutual fund houses remain abysmally low
Know your bank as well, says Kishori J Udeshi of BCSBI, in
While banks have ‘know your customer’ norms, it is also essential for customers to ‘know your bank’, says the former deputy governor of the RBI.
DQE’s growth may bank on its IP content
DQE has shifted its business model from a largely outsourced model to a co-production model and its future growth may depend on continued rollout of IP content in which the
SEBI asks all investors to pay 100% margin upfront for
In a bid to create a level playing field between all investor participants, all investors, including QIBs, will now be required to make full payment during new share applications.

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