All was not lost in today's market plunge as about 20% of stocks managed to register gains while a few of them also scaled new peaks.

One in five stocks buck downtrend

Press Trust of India

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) agreed to drop an administrative action against former Goldman Sachs Group director Rajat Gupta, and he pledged to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the regulatory proceeding violated his constitutional rights.

SEC drops charges against Rajat Gupta

Business Standard

Jonathan Barratt, managing director of Commodity Broking Services, a leading brokerage and investment house in Australia, spoke to Krishna Merchant on why commodities are falling and the outlook.

Q&A: Jonathan Barratt, MD, Commodity Broking Services

Trades between FIIs generated a volume of Rs 97 crore on the BSE Friday-an increase of 180.68% from Rs 35 crore clocked on Thursday. As many as seven stocks witnessed trades of 22 lakh shares on Friday.

FII-TO-FII: Grasim Ind traded at 6% premium

Bottom for stock prices thought to be near; analysts foresee volatility, but also possible upturn.

Brokers, investors to stay away for some weeks

US stocks extended the worst weekly slump since November 2008, as stronger-than-forecast jobs growth was overshadowed by concerns that America may lose its top credit rating, and Europe&rsquo;s debt crisis will spread. Treasuries and the dollar fell, while commodities erased gains.

US stocks extend fall

The key stock market indices slumped over 2 per cent on Friday, their lowest close in nearly 14 months, amid a global stock market rout as concerns about a slowdown in US growth and the euro zone debt crisis prompted investors to dump risky assets.

Global tremors rock markets

One of four stocks from the BSE-500 index plunged to 52-week lows on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on Friday amid the global sell-off in equity markets.

Shares of a fourth of top 500 companies hit 52-week lows

The markets plunged 5% during the week, clocking the sharpest fall in the last 21 months roiled by global recession concerns.

Weekly Review: Markets tank on global recession worries

Markets witnessed one of the worst sell-off in nearly two years, as global economic worries took centre stage.

Wkly Tech Analysis: Sensex likely to test 16,240 level

The non-convertible debenture (NCD) issue of India Infoline Investment Services, a unit of IIFL, has been fully subscribed. The issue consists of a base issue aggregating to Rs 375 crore, with an option to retain oversubscription up to Rs 375 crore.

India Infoline's NCD issue

US stocks fell the most in 32 months this week, erasing the Standard &amp; Poor&rsquo;s 500 Index&rsquo;s 2011 advance, as investors fled equities amid signs that the economy is stalling. An early rally faded yesterday as concern grew that S&amp;P would cut the American credit rating, speculation which proved to be true after financial markets closed.

US stocks sink in biggest drop since '08

The US debt crisis triggering deep cuts in the stock markets across the globe is likely to benefit India in due course, said a senior official associated with the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).

'US debt crisis to benefit Indian market'

Foreign institutional investors were on a selling spree last week and offloaded shares worth over $336.74 million (about Rs 1,492.20 crore) as the stock markets were rattled by global economic worries.

FIIs sell shares worth $336.74 mn last week

Fears of possible recession in the US and acute debt crisis in the euro zone that led to a massive fall in the stock market last week, also plagued the market value of blue-chip entities like TCS, RIL, Infosys among others.

Fears of recession in US plague m-cap of bluechips

Number of demat account holders in the country is likely to touch 25 million by 2015 from about 10 million now on growing tendency among young and middle aged persons to invest in capital market, SMC Global Securities said today.

Number of demat a/c holders will be 25 mn by 2015

The downgrade of US credit ratings by Standard &amp; Poor's is likely to trigger a fresh round of turmoil in global stock markets this week, leading to high volatility in Indian equities that were battered last week on worries over slowing growth worldwide.

US downgrade will lead to volatile stock markets

Market watchdog the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is planning a major upgradation of its key surveillance system through which it monitors data from stock exchange and depositories for identifying the manipulation activities.

Sebi to upgrade surveillance system

Investors say stocks to drift further, but impact of rating downgrade may be short-term.

US blues make Indian markets see red

This Friday&rsquo;s crash that saw many stocks sinking to their yearly lows has spooked retail investors. What&rsquo;s worse, with no positive cues from the global markets, fears of a further fall are not being ruled out either.

It's not yet time to hit the panic button 

Standard &amp; Poor&rsquo;s reduction of the US credit rating may make it harder for other top-rated countries to keep their AAA ranking, according to Mohamed A El- Erian of Pacific Investment Management Co.

Credit rating cut casts doubt on AAA nations

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