stock exchange

Buying American shares now as easy as investing in Indian equity

08 oct 2007

Indian investors can now do global hunting for investing in equity shares by choosing among the blue chips such as Microsoft, IBM, Wal-Mart, Coca Cola and Google. India’s number one online trading site, ICICIDirect.com has launched its overseas trading facility for Indian investors to invest upto $2 lakhs in a financial year in Equities, Exchange Traded Funds, Stock Options, Index Options.

Delhi Stock Exchange to become first regional stock exchange to be demutualised

18 jul 2007

The Delhi Stock Exchange (DSE) lying defunct since 2004 may soon start trading once again. It is looking at diluting 51% stake to 11 investors. About 3000 firms were listed in DSE, of which 1,800 were trading exclusively on it.

Track the Indian real estate though BSE Realty Index

09 jul 2007

To recognise the growing demand of real estate and its contribution in the Indian economy, The Bombay Stock Exchange on its 133rd Foundation Day, launched the Realty Index. The base year is fixed as 2005, with base index value of 1,000.

Mumbai gets one step closer to become Internal Financial Centre

18 jun 2007

A study by MasterCard has placed Mumbai at the 10th place in the financial flows hub list. Among the top ten there are 5 European, 2 American and 2 other Asian cities.

SEBI cracks the whip on Adani group, bars it from capital market for 2 years

29 may 2007

M. Damodaran, at the helm of affairs at SEBI, has contributed a lot towards the benefit of the common investors of the country. After bailing out UTI and IDBI, he has come done heavily on market intermediaries and companies involved in scams.