Typically, investors who want to bet that the company's stock will fall borrow shares in the market and sell them, hoping to buy them back at a lower price, in a practice called short selling
The domestic currency closed at 82.18 per US dollar as against 81.93 per dollar on Wednesday
As per data provided by Prime Database, these 29 companies were targeting to raise a cumulative of Rs 11,000 crore
The fall was triggered by short seller Hindenburg Research's accusation against the group of accounting fraud and stock manipulation
Lord Jo Johnson, younger brother of former British prime minister Boris Johnson, has resigned his non-executive directorship of a UK-based investment firm linked with the now-withdrawn Adani Enterprises Follow-on Public Offer (FPO). 'The Financial Times' newspaper referenced UK Companies House records to reveal that 51-year-old Lord Johnson had been appointed as a director of London-based Elara Capital Plc in June last year and resigned on Wednesday, the day when the Adani Group announced the withdrawal of the FPO. Elara, which described itself as a capital markets business raising funds for Indian corporates, was among the bookrunners on the FPO. Johnson insisted he has been assured of the company's "good standing" and has stepped down due to his own lack of "domain expertise". "I joined the board of Elara Capital, an India-focused investment firm based in London, as an independent non-executive director last June in the hope of making a contribution to UK-India trade and investmen
When a stock is included in the ASM list, it serves as a warning to the investors about unusual activity in the stock
The oppn leaders demanded a discussion on the Hindenburg report against Adani Enterprises while also seeking the constitution of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) into the alleged aberrations
Given the unprecedented situation and the current market volatility, Adani Enterprises has cancelled its Rs 20,000 crore follow-on-offer (FPO)
Stocks to watch today: The Board of Adani Enterprises (AEL) has announced that it will not go-ahead with the fully subscribed Follow-on Public Offer (FPO)
Given the extraordinary circumstances, AEL's board felt that going ahead with the issue will not be morally correct
Nifty fall over 2% from day's high to end in red
A Bloomberg report said that Credit Suisse Group AG has stopped accepting bonds of Gautam Adani's group of companies as collateral for margin loans
It is typical of markets to rally ahead of the budget proposals and see some profit taking once the measures are announced. This time, however, the Adani group stocks played spoilsport
Wednesday's stock losses saw Gautam Adani slip to 10th on Forbes rich list with an estimated $84.1 billion, just below rival Mukesh Ambani
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The close to $70 billion rout in Adani Group stocks has seen the domestic market slip to sixth position in the world
Adani on Friday added about $300 million worth of shares for a loan made by a group of banks including Barclays Plc, one of the people said, asking not to be named discussing internal matters
SEBI asked about the maturity profile of Adani Group debts, its liquidity, the founder's leverage and the overall rating process
The flagship firm Adani Enterprises rose nearly 3.4 per cent after its follow-on share sale managed to sail through
The fully subscribed offering removes one overhang for India's $3.2 trillion stock market, which recently dropped out of the world's five biggest by value