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Mumbai: The rupee on Monday slumped to breach the psychologically crucial barrier of 95/$, upending market expectations of a stronger year-end showing, as it finished FY26 by retreating the most in 14 years - nearly 11%. The last month, coinciding with the Iran war, was particularly brutal and accounted for a 4% decline. The currency, which touched an all-time low of 95.21/$, had briefly advanced to 93.59/$ in the early hours, its strongest level on Monday. The trading amplitude for the unit wa ...Read More >
Jane Street faces scrutiny from India's Sebi over alleged manipulation in the options market, involving a hefty penalty and trading ban. The firm is appealing to SAT, arguing Sebi withheld exculpatory evidence. The outcome will determine Jane Street's future in India and test Sebi's enforcement transparency, impacting investor confidence in the booming options market. When Jane Street, a global trading powerhouse, was slapped with a Rs 4,800 crore penalty and a trading ban by India's market reg ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 2 (PTI) Markets regulator Sebi came out with a new framework for monitoring intraday positions in equity index derivatives, a move aimed at preventing risks caused by large exposures. Under the new framework, the net intraday position has been capped at Rs 5,000 crore per entity in index options as against the end-of-day limit of Rs 1,500 crore, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said in a circular. The gross intraday position has been restricted at Rs 10,000 cror ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) The All India Football Federation have congratulated Inter Kashi on being adjudged the I-League Champions following the decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). CAS has partially upheld an appeal by Inter Kashi Football Club (Inter Kashi FC) against Churchill Brothers FC Goa, Namdhari FC, Real Kashmir FC, and AIFF. CAS has ruled that the AIFF shall declare Inter Kashi FC as winners of the I-League 2024-25. After an unsuccessful first procedure i ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Companies are lapping up the qualified institutional placements (QIPs) route -- the easiest and the shortest way to raise equity capital -- like there is no tomorrow. As many as 30 issuers -- led by the Rs 25,000-crore issue by SBI being the largest-ever issue in the history of India Inc -- have raised close to Rs 60,000 crore via this mode so far this year. In the whole of 2024, 95 issuers had collectively raised Rs 1.37 trillion. Of the total so far, more than half -- Rs 30,470 crore ...Read More >
The car had a Maharashtra number plate. Luggage was tied to the roof of the vehicle, which made officials believe that a family had come from Maharashtra to visit Agra. A shocking and heartbreaking incident has come to light from the Taj Mahal complex in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. An elderly man was found unconscious and tied inside a locked car parked near the western gate. The incident has raised serious questions about human sensitivity and responsibility. According to Aaj Tak, the man had been ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 18 (PTI) A three-storey chawl collapsed in the western suburb of Bandra here in the early hours of Friday, with at least 10 people feared trapped in the debris, civic officials said. As many as seven people have been rescued from the debris so far and admitted to the civic-run Bhabha Hospital, they said. Also Read | Stocks To Buy or Sell Today, July 18, 2025: Hitachi Energy India, NTPC, HCL Technologies Among Shares That May Remain in Focus on Friday. According to preliminary info ...Read More >
Mumbai: State Bank of India's (SBI) record ₹25,000-crore institutional share sale was bid more than four times the stock on offer, with marquee names such as the $11-trillion asset manager BlackRock Group and London hedge fund Marshall Wace joining the queue to buy into the mass lender's first such capital-raising in eight years, people familiar with the bids told ET. Against ₹25,000 crore of stock SBI offered in India's biggest qualified institutional placement (QIP) to date, the most-valued g ...Read More >
MUMBAI: State Bank of India's Rs 25,000 crore qualified institutional placement (QIP) has been oversubscribed by over three times, with investment bankers expecting bids to touch Rs 1 lakh crore.The Life Insurance Corporation of India and domestic mutual funds such as HDFC Life and ICICI Prudential Life were among the top investors who bid for the shares. Foreign investors included Nomura, Millennium, BlackRock, and British hedge fund Marshall Wace.Bankers said foreign investors view the State B ...Read More >
New Delhi: US-based hedge fund Jane Street, which allegedly made handsome gains through market manipulation, has deposited the mandated Rs 4,843.57 crore in an escrow account in favour of Sebi and requested it to lift certain restrictions. The watchdog is examining the request, Sebi said in a statement on Monday. In an interim order on July 3, the regulator found Jane Street (JS) guilty of manipulating indices by taking bets in cash and futures & options markets simultaneously for making massiv ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) US-based hedge fund Jane Street, which allegedly made handsome gains through market manipulation, has deposited the mandated Rs 4,843.57 crore in an escrow account in favour of Sebi and requested it to lift certain restrictions. The watchdog is examining the request, Sebi said in a statement on Monday. In an interim order on July 3, the regulator found Jane Street (JS) guilty of manipulating indices by taking bets in cash and futures & options markets simultaneously for ...Read More >
Maharashtra Language Row: As Maharashtra's language war intensifies, prominent investor Sushil Kedia has found himself at the centre of a storm after a bold social media post challenging MNS chief Raj Thackeray over the Marathi language issue. The episode has triggered sharp political reactions, vandalism at his office, and a public apology, all amid rising street tensions across the state. Sushil Kedia, founder and CEO of Kedianomics, a SEBI-registered investment advisory firm, expressed frust ...Read More >
Mumbai: Capital markets regulator Sebi chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey on Saturday made it clear that market manipulation is not going to be tolerated. Speaking with reporters a day after an interim order against New York-based hedge fund manager Jane Street, Pandey said surveillance has been increased both by the regulator and also at the exchange level. When asked if similar patterns have been seen with other foreign portfolio investors as well, Pandey said, "All what I can say that market manip ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, July 7: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused the Modi Government of making the rich richer and pushing ordinary investors to the brink of ruin by being silent on 'manipulation' by big players in the F&O market. Gandhi, in a post on X, said that he had predicted the loopholes in the Futures and Options (F&O) markets. "I clearly stated in 2024 - the F&O market has become a playground for 'big players,' and small investors' pockets are continuously being dra ...Read More >
Mumbai: Sebi Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey on Monday said the capital markets regulator does not see "many other risks" like the manipulations done by the hedge fund Jane Street. Speaking to reporters days after a Sebi order pointed towards gains of over Rs 4,800 crore made by Jane Street, Pandey said Sebi is mulling upgrading its surveillance systems. "And I don't think there are very many other risks," Pandey said, replying to a specific question on whether there are other funds or investors wh ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 7 (PTI) Sebi Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey on Monday said the capital markets regulator does not see "many other risks" like the manipulations done by the hedge fund Jane Street. Speaking to reporters days after a Sebi order pointed towards gains of over ₹4,800 crore made by Jane Street, Pandey said Sebi is mulling upgrading its surveillance systems. "And I don't think there are very many other risks," Pandey said, replying to a specific question on whether there are other funds or i ...Read More >
Mumbai: Capital markets regulator Sebi chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey on Saturday made it clear that market manipulation is not going to be tolerated. Speaking with reporters a day after an interim order against New York-based hedge fund manager Jane Street, Pandey said surveillance has been increased both by the regulator and also at the exchange level. When asked if similar patterns have been seen with other foreign portfolio investors as well, Pandey said, "All what I can say that market manip ...Read More >
MUMBAI (Reuters) -India has barred one of the world's largest quant trading firms, Jane Street, from accessing its securities market after an investigation found it made "unlawful gains", taking the most stringent action ever against a foreign trading firm. The markets regulator also impounded $567 million from U.S.-based Jane Street, which said it disputed the findings. Here are facts about Jane Street and its India presence: WHAT IS JANE STREET? Jane Street has more than 3,000 staff in five ...Read More >
New Delhi: The survey, conducted in the first quarter of 2025, revealed that when asked about the greatest threats to their financial objectives over the next 12 months, more than two-thirds (70 per cent) highlighted a trade war. However, family offices expressed these concerns before the Trump administration's announcement of new US tariffs. Looking ahead over the next five years, family offices are also worried about the risks that may follow serious trade disputes. Almost two-thirds (61 per ...Read More >
New Delhi: Activist short-seller Nathan Anderson, known for his high-profile campaigns against the likes of Adani Group, said the decision to shut his firm, Hindenburg Research was not because of any legal or any other threat, but due to workload. And that he stands by all its reports including the one against Adani Group. Anderson told PTI that Hindenburg's January 2023 report accusing Adani Group of "the largest con in corporate history" was a result of following "red flags" raised against th ...Read More >
Over 40 companies, including WorldQuant and IMC, join IIT Bombay's placements The final placement process for 2024 kicked off on Sunday at premier IITs, including Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur, Roorkee, Kharagpur, Guwahati, and BHU. Students have started receiving impressive job offers, highlighting the robust demand for talent from these institutions. The placement season at IIT Bombay began with great enthusiasm, with more than 45 companies taking part on the opening day. A standout moment c ...Read More >
India's corporate earnings should pick up in the next two quarters, veteran investor and Managing Director of MK Ventures Madhu Kela said on November 28, adding that he sees the market setup as 'constructive' after signs of 'euphoric moments' in some spaces and companies. In conversation with CNBC-TV18, Madhu Kela said government's capex expenditure was slow due to recent elections as well as the monsoon factor, both of which are out of the way now. The Centre too indicated recently that the ca ...Read More >
Republican President-elect Donald Trump's picks for his Cabinet include some historic firsts, though women and people of color make up less of the overall number than they did when Democratic President Joe Biden first took office. Historic firsts Florida political operative Susie Wiles, who ran Trump's 2024 campaign, is set to be the first woman to hold the high-profile position of White House chief of staff. U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, Trump's pick for secretary of state, would be the first pe ...Read More >
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