The projects need cash, and Adani could well face serious shortfalls. Whether the govt bails them out by giving money or takes them over is a billion-dollar question
Lok Sabha was on Monday adjourned till 2 pm following protests by opposition parties demanding a joint parliamentary committee probe into the fraud-allegation-triggered rout in the Adani Group company stocks. Soon after the House met after the weekend break, opposition members, primarily Congress MPs, came to the well of the House shouting slogans and demanding a probe into the the tanking of the Adani Group scrips and sought a probe into the business practices of the corporate giant. Speaker Om Birla appealed them to go back to their seats and participate in the debate. This is not good. Sloganeering is against the dignity of the House. People have elected you to raise their issues in Parliament but you are not interested in participating in debate, he said. Birla said the opposition members should come to his chamber and discuss their demands and assured that he would give them enough time to raise the issues in the House. However, the opposition ignored his pleas and continued
The selling coincided with a slide in equity benchmarks, with Nifty 50 falling 2.45% in the first month of 2023
To know whether Adani is more likely to float than sink, bondholders are turning to rating companies, advisers and lawyers
The company might look at 16-18 months for growth in certain businesses instead of a 12-month target, according to a newspaper report
Banks have an exposure of Rs 80,000 crore to the conglomerate, with the SBI leading the pack with Rs 27,000 crore
Sebi has begun examining the crash in Adani group stocks and is said to have increased the scrutiny of the Adani group and its investors
'Foreign reserves grew to USD 8 billion. FPOs (follow-on public offers) come and go'
Amid the raging controversy over Adani Group's stocks, the BJP on Saturday said financial markets are highly regulated and the Centre is closely monitoring the situation. Stocks of the Adani Group have taken a beating on the bourses after US-based activist short-seller Hindenburg Research made a litany of allegations, including fraudulent transactions and share price manipulation at the Gautam Adani-led group. The Adani group has dismissed the charges as lies, saying it complies with all laws and disclosure requirements. "I do not want to name any particular group but Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has already spoken on this subject. The Reserve Bank has also given a detailed explanation as per which banks of the country have given huge loans to various companies by following all parameters," Bharatiya Janata Party's national spokesperson Gopal Krishna Agarwal told reporters. He said financial markets are heavily regulated by the Reserve Bank, SEBI and other regulators. The ..
Amid a raging controversy over a meltdown in Adani group stocks, regulator Sebi on Saturday said it is committed to ensuring the stock market's integrity and all necessary surveillance measures are in place to address any excessive volatility in individual shares. Without naming the Adani group specifically, the capital markets watchdog said in a statement that unusual price movement in the stocks of a business conglomerate has been observed in the past week. Officials confirmed that the statement has been issued in the wake of the Adani matter only. "As part of its mandate, Sebi seeks to maintain orderly and efficient functioning of the market and has put in place a set of well-defined, publicly available surveillance measures (including the ASM framework) to address excessive volatility in specific stocks. "This mechanism gets automatically triggered under certain conditions of price volatility in any stock," the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said. Stock exchange
Adani Enterprises Ltd. has shelved a plan to raise as much as 10 billion rupees ($122 million) via its first-ever public sale of bonds following a market rout
Advisors remain in favour of Nifty despite its recent underperformance to the Sensex
A fight could have spread effects not only on those who financed the projects Adani embarked on, but also the govt's manufacturing and infrastructure ambitions, writes T N Ninan
State Bank of India, the country's largest lender, said on Friday any further financing to projects of the embattled Adani Group would be "evaluated on its own merit"
Total has a 37.4% stake in Adani Total Gas (ATGL) and a 19.75% stake in Adani Green Energy (AGEL), according to its statement on Friday
More than $118 billion was erased from the market capitalization of his 10 stocks since US-based Hindenburg claimed last week that offshore shell entities were used to inflate revenues
Adani Enterprises to review capital raising plans once shares stabilise
Hindenburg Research on January 24 accused the Adani group of using offshore shells for money laundering and fraud
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The move is to shield investors against risky and speculative trades