Shares in Bank of India make a sharp fall before quickly recovering in what some traders describe as a "freak" trade. Trading at 336.65 rupees, down 1.2 per cent, Bank of India shares suddenly fell to 314 rupees, down 7.8 percent on the day, at around 12:20 p.m IST. The shares, however, recover to 337.35. ...
02:43 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Amid turbulent times for the stock markets across the world, the equity turnover fell on Indian bourses as well in 2012, but the fall was meagre at 1.57 per cent when compared to the global average. Globally, the equity turnover fell sharply by 14.7 per cent, while the fall was nearly 8 per cent for the bourses in Asia Pacific region as well. ...
02:11 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Bharti Infratel, backed by billionaire Sunil Mittal, fell as much as 12.7 per cent in its trading debut after raising about $760 million in India's biggest IPO in two years, weighed down by a cautious outlook for mobile tower operators. The IPO, priced near the lower end of an indicative price range, struggled to find interest from retail investors and was supported mostly by foreign institutional investors. But analysts are...
11:27 AM, Dec 28, 2012
The BSE Sensex is up 0.25 per cent and the Nifty gains 0.17 per cent higher, tracking steady Asian markets. Export-driven technology shares leading gains on the back of short covering as recent underperformance was seen overdone. ...
01:09 PM, Dec 24, 2012
New Delhi: Market regulator SEBI has begun probe into the 900-point 'flash crash' of National Stock Exchange (NSE) index Nifty on Friday morning. The flash crash halted trade on the exchange for about 15 minutes. The NSE had blamed abnormal orders placed by stock broker Emkay Global for the crash and claimed there were no technical glitches in its system. In a statement issued on Friday evening, NSE said, "Stringent...
11:26 AM, Oct 06, 2012
Mumbai: The National Stock Exchange said financial firm Emkay Global Financial Services was responsible for the erroneous trades of over 6.5 billion rupees that caused a halt in the bourse's trading systems. The bourse said Emkay had placed 59 erroneous orders that resulted in multiple trades with an aggregate value of over 6.5 billion rupees on behalf of an institutional client. The non-algorithmic trades were identified to a specific dealer...
01:02 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Mumbai: A technical error on Friday took the Nifty down 800 points to 4,997 at around 10 am, due to which trading was halted for a while. But trading in the National Stock Exchange's cash market has resumed after the brief halt. While brokers speculated that it could have been caused by a freak trade, NSE said that it was shut due to execution of bulk orders. In a statement...
11:15 AM, Oct 05, 2012
Mumbai: Trading in the National Stock Exchange's cash market resumed after it was briefly frozen following a 162-point plunge. The 50-share Nifty fell to an intra-day low of 5625 around 10 am, with stocks like Bharti Airtel, Cipla, SBI, Hindustan Unilever and Axis Bank tumbling between 8 to 11 per cent. Even as the NSE froze trading in the cash market, the 30-share Sensex fell around 290 points, but recovered...
10:35 AM, Oct 05, 2012
Mumbai: The National Stock Exchange emerged as the world's second-largest bourse in terms of turnover in trading of index as well as stock futures, according to latest data. Index and stock futures are generally contracts based on a particular stock or index. NSE is ranked second in trading turnover for index futures for the month of June, just behind European bourse Eurex, according to market regulator Sebi's July bulletin. Sebi...
11:01 AM, Aug 19, 2012
Mumbai: The BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty closed the session with marginal losses on Wednesday ahead of settlement day for July contract. The market saw the second highest turnover on Wednesday of Rs 3.01 lakh crore while the highest ever turnover stood at Rs 3.29 lakh crore that traded on February 23, 2012. Benchmarks erased all Tuesday's gains as the market has not been getting any action on government's reforms....
09:34 AM, Jul 25, 2012
Mumbai: A benchmark index for Indian equities markets fell below the psychological resistance level of 18,000 points on Friday on continued selling pressure for the second day after the central bank hiked its key policy rates to curb inflation. The sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened in the positive at 18,251.18 points, slipped into the red within half an hour of trading. In the afternoon,...
02:03 PM, Mar 18, 2011
Nifty ended the day at 4,922.3 points, up 1.29 percent or 62.55 points. ...
06:05 PM, Feb 26, 2010
Indian equity markets opened lower on Monday. ...
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