The free-trade agreement with ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) should not enable cheap import of low grade coffee into India as this will impact the domestic brand of coffee in the international market.

'Import of low grade coffee should be avoided'

Business Standard

William (Bill) Barbour, investment specialist, APAC &amp; MENA, for Deutsche Asset Management, who manages its DWS Global Agribusiness Offshore Fund which has assets worth $3 billion, spoke to Jitendra Kumar Gupta on various issues regarding global and Indian agri-commodities, including the trend in prices, opportunities and outlook, and Indian markets.

Q&A: William Barbour, Director, Deutsche Asset Management

The markets may start the day on a quiet note in line with the cues from the global front and the subdued nature of the previous day's proceedings.

Pre-market: Markets may have a  quiet start

The foreign institutional investors (FIIs) were net buyers of Rs 816.63 crore in futures and options segments on Wednesday.

FIIs net bought Rs 816 crore in F&O on Wed

The Indian ADRs had a mixed session of trade. On the gainers side, Infosys ended at $68, stronger by $0.3 or 0.5%, Wipro ended at $13, higher by 0.3% and Dr Reddy's ended at $33, up $0.1 or 0.5%.

Indian ADRs end mixed

The Asian markets have started the day on a subdued note.

Asian markets open subdued

Cheering the robust earnings and dividend declaration, the stock jumped by 5.81% to touch a one-month peak of 1,945 on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Aventis Pharma surges by 6% on BSE

Press Trust of India

There were bouquets and brickbats for Chandrasekhar Bhaskar Bhave, as his three-year term as Indian capital market's most powerful person ended today.

Bhave gets compliments and criticism as Sebi chief

Domestic institutional investors (DIIs) were net buyers of Rs 244.40 crore (provisional) today, according to data released by BSE.

DIIs net buyers of Rs 244 cr in cash mkt today

Broadly, we were not comfortable with the market at 6,300, due to its very expensive valuations.

Q&A: Vinay khattar, Head (Research of WAIS), Edelweiss

Sebi-RBI committee looking at ways to boost dwindling volume.

Sebi looks at cash settlement in IRF

While stock exchanges worldwide are consolidating, not much action is happening in India due to the cap on equity holding in stock exchanges.

Indian exchanges miss global M&A action

UTI Mutual Fund on Thursday said it had appointed a search firm to identify a suitable candidate to head the company, after the appointment of U K Sinha as chairman and managing director of Securities and Exchange Board of India. &ldquo;The firm will look at both internal and external candidates. The process is expected to be concluded at the earliest,&rdquo; UTI MF said in a statement. In the interim period, to run the day-to-day affairs, a four-member committee has been formed. The members include its Chief Marketing Officer Jaideep Bhattacharya, Chief Financial Officer I Rahman, Equity Head Anoop Bhaskar and Fixed Income Head Amandeep Chopra. Sinha, who replaces C B Bhave as Sebi chairman, will take charge on Friday.

UTI MF's search firm to find chairman

It is that time of the year again. The stock prices of companies catering to Indian Railways have begun their annual rally ahead of the Rail Budget to be presented on February 25. The same stocks fall right after the event.

Rail stocks rally ahead of budget

With five states going to the polls after the Budget session, Vivek Mahajan, head-research, Aditya Birla Money, tells Ujjval Jauhari that we may expect a populist Budget. And, there could be a possible rollback of the economic stimulus package.

Market voice: Vivek Mahajan, Aditya Birla Money

Servalakshmi Paper has received the SEBI nod for its proposed initial public offering (IPO). The company proposes to enter capital markets with a public issue of equity shares aggregating Rs 60 crore through 100 per cent book building process.

Servalakshmi Paper gets SEBI nod for IPO

The sharp turnaround in the Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitive Index, or Sensex, in the past few trading sessions suggests that the stock market is entering a pre-Budget rally zone.

Eye on Budget, markets start rallying

Trades between FIIs generated a volume of Rs 33 crore on the BSE Thursday-an decrease of 47.67% from Rs 63 crore clocked on Wednesday. As many as eight stocks witnessed trades of 5.85 lakh shares on Thursday.

FII-TO-FII: Pantaloon traded at 19% premium

The Indian ADRs had a good session of trade in line with the general trend across Wall Street.

Indian ADRs end higher

Asian markets were in green this morning with energy and commodity stocks outperforming.

Asian markets gain; Shanghai dips

Anil Ambani-led Reliance Infra has sought an Intelligence Bureau probe into alleged hammering down of 23 infrastructure stocks by a &quot;powerful stock market operator&quot; for personal gains of hundreds of crores of rupees.

ADAG seeks IB probe in hammering of 23 infra stocks

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