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Pledging of shares: Do lenders need to rethink their strategy?
The laws that govern lenders and the right to invoke pledged shares
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Nearly Rs 4 trillion of shares still held in physical form, shows analysis
Even some blue-chips have over 30% shares in physical form
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Shares of small companies witness fresh bout of selling on Wednesday
Wednesday's fall comes on the back of a global risk off due to concerns over global trade war
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Forgotten wealth: Shares worth over Rs 13 bn lie unclaimed in top 100 firms
Such securities are transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund
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Most talked stocks of India
Tech Mahindra topped the charts with a gain of 947 per cent on Thursday; HCL Technologies was up 521 per cent, according to the BSE portal. Are these numbers real?They are but with a twist. Though these statistics appear on a dashboard on the BSEindia.com website, these are not stock prices. The TechM stock actually gained only 2.4 per cent, while HCL was down marginally at the time of writing. The numbers quoted earlier represent a measure of market attention for these stocks. A click on these names takes you to a snapshot of events in the past 30 days, interesting graphs and tweets. The market attention is measured by analysing what the 'financial crowd' is talking about, in traditional and social media. For example, these big information technology companies are in the news because of the layoffs across the sector. Two months ago, BSE tied up with a Swiss financial technology start-up, called Sentifi. Using a cross-platform application, this company aims to simplify the way ...
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European shares set three-month high, ECB in limelight
Timing of the ECB meeting is crucial for the market as heightened political uncertainty has been making investors jittery
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Overseas investors sell Rs 178 cr worth shares in 2 weeks
In March-April, Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) had pumped in a net Rs 29,558 crore into equity markets
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Companies buyback shares Rs 1,700 crore closed in FY16
The total amount on offer in the past fiscal was the lowest in seven years
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Jain Irrigation shares up 4% as arm raises Rs 402 crore
They raised money from Mandala Capital for growth of the company
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