The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, December 29, 2005

Award for paper on capital markets
HYDERABAD: The Indian Institute of Capital Markets has adjudged the paper entitled `Information leadership and volatility spill over across countries: A case of Indian and other Asian Markets', authored by Mr Kedarnath Mukherjee and Prof. ... More

INSIGHT

Sense from Sensex — Removing infrastructural bottlenecks
REGARDLESS OF the upswing in the market sentiment, the danger of infrastructural bottlenecks making a shambles of the economy is real. The stark fact is that the country does not simply have on the ground infrastructure capable of underwriting ... More

STOCKS

ICSA India to hike authorised capital
ICSA India Ltd informed the BSE that the members at the extraordinary general meeting (EGM) today decided to increase the authorised capital from Rs 7.5 crore, divided into 75 lakh equity shares of Rs 10 each, to Rs 10 crore, divided into 1 ... More

IOC-IBP swap ratio revised to 110:100
Earlier, the boards of the two companies had approved a swap ratio of 125 shares of IndianOil for every 100 IBP shares More

IOC board okays offloading stake in ONGC, GAIL
THE board of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd today approved offloading the equity investment of the company in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) and GAIL (India) Ltd. Sources told Business Line that the IndianOil board has approved ... More

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

Volatile movement
WEDNESDAY'S trading activity witnessed Volatile movement. However, the sentiment reading of the tradable counters turned to bullish. Bear domination on Thursday is likely to change the sentiment reading in their favour. On the contrary, the ... More

STOCK EXCHANGES

Clause 49: Stock exchanges to stick to Dec 31 deadline
STOCK exchanges today said that companies would have to comply with the Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement relating to the appointment of independent directors on their boards from January 1. The BSE and the NSE said that all listed companies ... More

STOCK MARKETS

Weak denim price pares Arvind Mills
ARVIND Mills, a textile company, is on a downward move. On Wednesday, the stock fell 5.54 per cent at Rs 93.70 on the BSE with volumes of 12.44 lakh shares; on the NSE, it closed at Rs 93.65, down 5.69 per cent with volumes of 3.94 lakh shares. ... More

FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS

Foreign investments spur growth of stock market
THE equity market continued its bull run for the third year in row as good growth in corporate profits and government policies kept the faith of investors (especially foreign) in the markets with major stock indices closing at a new high. ... More

INTERVIEW

Indian equities expensive: Merrill Lynch
DESPITE a bullish view on global emerging market equities in 2006, Merrill Lynch is underweight on India. The Chief Equity Strategist-Asia Pacific at Merrill Lynch, Mr Spencer White, feels that the retail Japanese fund flows to India may not ... More

COMMENTARY

Profit-taking checks market progress
FRESH after a massive near-200 points rebound on Tuesday; the stock markets witnessed considerable volatility on either side of the index band during the mid-week session on Wednesday. The 197-point recovery on Tuesday managed to more than ... More

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