Margin Trading Facility: Explained: What are the advantages of marginal trading facility or MTF

Margin Trading Facility: Explained: What are the advantages of marginal trading facility or MTF

Margin Trading Facility is an exchange approved product. It’s a safe and secure product that lets investors purchase more stocks with the limited capital. It involves borrowing money from a brokerage to purchase stocks and repaying the capital with interest later. This method is often referred to as leverage trading, amplifies returns but carries risks … Read more

Wall Street: Wall Street Week Ahead: Stock market’s record-setting rebound may have further to go

Wall Street: Wall Street Week Ahead: Stock market’s record-setting rebound may have further to go

A rebound that has taken the U.S. stock market to record highs this week may have further to run, if history is any guide. Fresh signs of a cooling economy calmed inflation worries in May, helping all three major U.S. stock indexes rise to records this week. The benchmark S&P 500, which fell over 4% … Read more

Sebi: Sebi plans to allow local MFs to invest in overseas funds

Sebi: Sebi plans to allow local MFs to invest in overseas funds

Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Friday proposed to allow domestic mutual funds to invest in overseas mutual funds that invest certain portion of their assets in Indian securities. Currently, there is ambiguity regarding rules on investments in such overseas funds. This deters mutual funds from investing in those overseas mutual … Read more

Big movers on D-Street: What should investors do with Tata Technologies, Apollo Tyres and Vodafone Idea?

Big movers on D-Street: What should investors do with Tata Technologies, Apollo Tyres and Vodafone Idea?

Equity indices shot up nearly 1% on Thursday in a highly volatile trade. The 30-share Sensex climbed 676 points to settle at 73,663 and the Nifty surged 203 points to 22,403. Stocks that were in focus include names like Tata Technologies, which closed flat, Apollo Tyres, which jumped 3.14%, and Vodafone Idea, whose shares fell … Read more

Go Digit Insurance IPO subscribed 50% so far on Day 2. Check GMP & other details

Go Digit Insurance IPO subscribed 50% so far on Day 2. Check GMP & other details

The initial public offer (IPO) of Go Digit Insurance was subscribed 50% so far around 12:20 pm on second day of the bidding process on Thursday. The retail portion was fully subscribed at 2.03 times around this time while the non-institutional investors’ portion was booked 0.48 times. As for the qualified institutional buyers (QIBs), the … Read more

Big movers on D-Street: What should investors do with Siemens, Oil India and LIC?

Big movers on D-Street: What should investors do with Siemens, Oil India and LIC?

Equity markets declined in a volatile trade on Wednesday. The 30-share Sensex declined 117 points to settle at 72,987 and the broader Nifty dipped 17 points to close at 22,200. Stocks that were in focus include names like Siemens India, which rose 6.33%, Oil India, which jumped 1.98%, and LIC, whose shares increased 6.82% on … Read more

fii selling: JP Morgan’s Rajiv Batra on why FIIs are selling and how to position portfolio now

fii selling: JP Morgan’s Rajiv Batra on why FIIs are selling and how to position portfolio now

Rajiv Batra, Head of Asia Pacific ex JP/CN, Equity Strategy and Head of India & Southeast Asia Equity Strategy, JPMorgan, says if one assumes policy continuity as the present dispensation is expected to come back to power, then one should keep positioned in a barbell manner. Invest in some safe and secured sectors like healthcare … Read more

Aadhar Housing Finance stock makes D-Street debut on flat note

Aadhar Housing Finance stock makes D-Street debut on flat note

After a healthy response to the IPO, the shares of Aadhar Housing Finance listed on the exchanges today at Rs 314.3, a marginal discount of 0.22%, on BSE. Ahead of the listing, the company’s traded with a premium of Rs 50 in the unlisted market The company boasts of highest assets under management (AUM) within … Read more

premiumisation: 4 sectors that can be beta plays with more premiumisation opportunities: Harsh Gupta Madhusudan, NSE Gift City

premiumisation: 4 sectors that can be beta plays with more premiumisation opportunities: Harsh Gupta Madhusudan, NSE Gift City

Harsh Gupta Madhusudan NSE Gift City, says FIIs have been unable to topple the Indian market and as soon as the FII headwind becomes a tailwind, that is where the real equity party in India will begin. For that to happen, it is just a matter of a few months at most because it is … Read more

Forget U.S. stocks — UBS says Europe’s are a better bet. Here’s why

Forget U.S. stocks — UBS says Europe’s are a better bet. Here’s why

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on April 29, 2024 in New York City.  Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images European stocks are now more attractive than their U.S. counterparts, according to Swiss Bank UBS, with factors such as economic data, interest rates and earnings playing a … Read more