Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's net worth has shrunk to $37.7 billion, taking him to 32nd on the Bloomberg Billionaire Index
Besides a campaign to portray themselves as responsible borrowers with prepayments and on-time payments of debt, executives have also kicked off a series of meetings to pacify overseas bondholders
Among the gainers were Adani Electricity Mumbai's dollar 2031 notes, which rose 0.7 cent to 72 cents as of 1.07 pm in Hong Kong
If it moved ahead with any offering and was able to secure investors, it could be the first debt issuance for Adani since shortseller Hindenburg Research alleged fraud and stock manipulation
Adani is an outlier, not representative of India Inc. as a whole," economists Abhishek Gupta, Scott Johnson and Tom Orlik said in their report Tuesday
Adani Enterprises has been in the spotlight since January 24 when the US-based short-seller Hindenburg Research released a report stating that its shares are overvalued
Nathan Anderson, the founder of Hindenburg Research whose damning report led to a USD 100 billion-plus rout in Adani Group shares, has said that his firm has never been banned, its bank account never seized and that it is not under any investigation. Since it published a scathing 100-plus-page report alleging that Adani pulled "the largest con in corporate history" on January 24, there have been comments on social media that Hindenburg had "three criminal inquiries" in the US and that it was banned by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), its bank accounts frozen and it has been barred from publishing any report on firms listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Anderson, in a tweet, attached a news report "debunking" such "lies" and said Hindenburg was neither banned nor is under any investigation. "We are banned by FINRA (never); Had bank accounts seized (no); Can't publish on NYSE-listed co's (this isn't a thing); Are under investigation (no)," he said. Hindenburg, .
CLOSING BELL: Among sectors, the Nifty Metal index fell 2.2 per cent, followed by the Nifty IT index (down 0.6 per cent), and the Nifty Bank index (down 0.3 per cent)
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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
AEL pulled the plug on its fully-subscribed $2.4 billion (Rs 20,000-crore) follow-on public offering FPO
The move is to shield investors against risky and speculative trades
The Opposition parties tried to raise the issue in both Houses of Parliament but were disallowed by the chair
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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
Hindenburg said last week that it had taken a short position in Adani's companies through US-traded bonds and non-Indian-traded derivative instruments
Pricing at a discount but shorting the stock ahead of the FPO won't be as straightforward