The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has proposed easing reporting norms for stockbrokers, extending key exemptions to those that double up as primary dealers in a bid to improve ease of doing business. In a consultation paper issued on Friday, the markets regulator has sought to relax certain requirements around naming, tagging, and…
And here’s the kicker: investors went crazy for it. Alphabet wanted to raise £1 billion with this century bond and received £9.5 billion in bids. That’s nearly 10 times oversubscribed. The overall debt raised across dollars, sterling, and Swiss francs hit almost $32 billion in less than 24 hours. This is unprecedented in modern technology….
State Bank of India’s (SBI) December quarter (Q3FY26) results landed strongly on Saturday against a slightly jittery backdrop. Bond yields had crept up after the Union Budget, reviving the familiar fear trade around banks—higher yields, tighter liquidity, and pressure on margins. SBI stock had declined almost 5% in response, but has since recouped the losses,…
since the product’s launch in April last year, every SIF that has come to market has fallen into just three of the seven strategies permitted by the regulator—equity long-short, equity ex-top 100 long-short and hybrid long-short. No fund house has launched either of the two debt strategies or a sector rotation equity fund, or an…
While Claude isn’t the first to do all of this, it still sent the entire software world into a meltdown over the past few days. In a world awash with technology companies hoping to automate work with generative AI, how did Claude make such a massive splash? mint explains. What is Claude Cowork? Very simply…
India’s market regulator has proposed targeted regulatory changes for real estate and infrastructure investment trusts, seeking to ease cash deployment, borrowing flexibility, and post-concession asset handling while retaining existing investor protection norms. In a consultation paper issued on Thursday, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has proposed allowing InvITs to continue holding special…
The move could materially tighten oversight across India’s $50 billion pharmaceuticals market, even as industry stakeholders urge caution on the plan. The proposal by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) involves increasing the imprisonment duration by three-and-a-half times to seven years, and financial penalty by up to 28 times under the Drugs and Cosmetics…
Market breadth has hit at least a five-year low during Sunday’s budget session, with four out of every five BSE 500 stocks retreating. This marks the most widespread sell-off on a budget day since 2021, erasing gains across every sector except pharma and textiles. The analysis is based on the common sample of stocks currently…
Lodha Developers Ltd put up a solid show in the December quarter (Q3FY26) with best-ever quarterly pre-sales or bookings of ₹5,620 crore, up over 20% sequentially and year-on-year. Pre-sales were primarily driven by a project launch in South Mumbai. While launches picked up versus H1FY26, they were focused on select micro markets. In the first…
With the Union budget for FY27 just about there, trading patterns in the derivatives market suggest that foreign investors are bracing for either a correction or a long spell of post-budget calm. Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs), who have prevailed over bullish retail investors by shorting the Indian markets since October 2024, are running into the…
