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Dharmaj Crop IPO subscribed 1.8x on Day-1, QIB portion not fully covered

Retail, HNI fully covered, institutional investor portion subscribed 35%

Fewer active investors even as benchmark indices hit record highs

Market volatility and lacklustre 1-yr returns weigh on activity

Adani Enterprises to raise Rs 20,000 crore through follow-on public offer

The face value of each Adani Enterprises share would be Rs 1 each and the approval of the shareholders would be taken via postal ballot

Prosus posts $80-million loss on investment in PayU India

Technology investor Prosus on Wednesday reported widening of its consolidated trading loss to USD 80 million, about Rs 654 crore, on account of investment in PayU India business during first half of the current fiscal. The Netherlands-based investor firm, however, registered a 59 per cent growth in total payments volume (TPV) at USD 28 billion, about Rs 2.29 lakh crore, in India. PayU revenue increased to USD 183 million, about Rs 1,497 crore. "Consolidated trading losses expanded to USD 80 million, as we continued to invest in growing our credit operations in India. In India, our largest payments market, TPV grew 59 per cent to USD 28 billion, and revenue increased 48 per cent to USD 183 million, following increased digitalisation in e-commerce, financial services and bill payments, and a rebound in post pandemic travel," the company said. The Prosus group's overall trading loss widened to USD 1.4 billion during the reported period from USD 2.8 billion a year ago. The revenue of

Five-Star Business up 3.4% on debut as Rs 684 cr worth of shares are traded

Listing day gains come despite lukewarm response to IPO

As property market hits a slump in China, are investors turning to India?

-date period till October, investment in real estate development fell 8.8% compared with the same period in the previous year, commercial floor space sold dropped 22.3%

FTX fallout: Crypto markets on the back foot as investors pull funds

Investors continue to pull funds from digital-asset exchanges despite the latter's efforts to reassure markets about their stability.

Sovereign investors favour US, India as top 2022 investment markets: Study

Among developing nations, India has overtaken China as the most popular emerging market, having climbed to No. 2 in 2022 from No. 9 in 2014.

Lula da Silva's efforts to boost spending in Brazil rattles markets

On the campaign trail, Luiz Incio Lula da Silva promised to sustain a massive welfare programme, increase the minimum wage and boost health and education spending. Now, Brazil's president-elect is trying to make good on those pledges -- and investors are showing concern. Da Silva's transition team on Wednesday night presented Congress with an outline of a proposal to skirt a constitutionally imposed spending cap by creating a carve-out for welfare. Then, at the climate talks in Egypt on Thursday, he reiterated that he pays little heed to whether his plans to lead a socially responsible government might cause jittery speculators to sell off. When trading opened on Thursday, Brazil's currency slid to its weakest level against the dollar since July and the benchmark Bovespa stock index fell more than 2.5 per cent, before trimming losses hours later. Traders have begun pricing in interest-rate hikes next year rather than cuts, as da Silva's proposal "confirmed (fiscal) risk that before .

New guidelines for financial influencers under works, says Sebi

Merely giving disclaimers may not guard finfluencers from regulatory action

SpaceX mulling secondary share sale at $150 billion valuation: Report

The offering would be aimed at helping employees and shareholders cash out, two of the sources said

Confidential IPO filing: How it will work and why it is being introduced

Under this mechanism, the information in the DRHP is made available only to the regulator, not to the public at large

Sebi now receives lesser complaints, resolves them at faster pace

Even as number of investors has risen, shows SCORES data

Gatik's driverless B2B delivery service gains pace in US and Canada

The middle-mile segment, unlike long-haul transport or last-mile delivery to an end consumer, involves business-to-business (B2B) operations, mostly from a warehousing location to a retail centre

Investcorp plans major ramp up of India assets to $5 billion: Alardhi

The Middle East firm expects to reach $5 billion of assets in India in the next five years, up from just over $600 million currently, or 1.5% of the $42.7 billion in assets managed by Investcorp

Mahindra Lifespaces Developers logs net loss of Rs 8 crore in Q2

The company has also set a target of achieving annual residential sales of Rs 2500 crore and annual leasing of Rs 500 cr

Investors shed $7 billion off Credit Suisse Saudi backer over stake deal

Investors have wiped about $7 billion off Saudi National Bank's market value amid growing concern over the lender's plans to purchase a stake in Credit Suisse Group AG

India's decoupling from global capital market surprising: Mukul Kochhar

Country attractive for global investment because of 'visibility for high growth', says head of Institutional Equities, Investec India.

'It is unacceptable': Investors react to 40-minute Toronto Exchange Outage

A 40-minute outage across three stock exchanges stalled equity trading in Canada, leaving some investors frustrated and others refusing to place orders even after it reopened.

Vedanta stock slips over dip in commodity prices despite in-line Q2 show

Soft prices of commodities including metals is weighing on investor sentiment