The Bombay Stock Exchange has extended trading timings in equity and equity derivatives segments by 10 minutes. The move would be effective from this Friday (December 18, 2009). Trading in these segments will commence from 9.45 am onwards, instead of the present timing of 9.55 am onwards….

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The Commodity market regulator FMC has asked brokers to keep a close watch on “inactive trading accounts” to avoid possible misuse and warned that failure to do so would attract penalty. “To curb manipulation of inactive trading accounts, we have asked members (brokers)…

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Without a strong global economic recovery, the maritime sector will find it tough to overcome the demand-supply mismatch. While freight rates, an indicator of health of the shipping industry, have moved up from their September lows this year, a faster global economic recovery seems to be…

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Abu Dhabi feeds Dubai $10 billion to cover debt on deadline, calming financial worries for now DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Oil-rich Abu Dhabi pumped $10 billion into its indebted neighbor Monday, sending stocks soaring while sparing Dubai and the rest of the Emirates federat…

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Cox & Kings one of the newly listed stock in NSE (COX&KINGS) and BSE (533144) made is debut on Firday, 11th Dec’09. The Stock on the listing date touched an high of 433, after opening at 304.10. The stock zoomed 30% on its first day closing 95rs higher in NSE. Cox and Kin…

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Open Interest: It is the total number of options and/or futures contracts that are not closed or delivered on a particular day. By monitoring the changes in the open interest figures at the end of each trading day, some conclusions about the day’s activity can be drawn. Increasing ope…

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Nifty opened at 5147 (day high), made a low of 5090 and finally manged to close at 5112 ending 0.70% lower. Sensex fell 102 points to close at 17,125, it made a high of 17,227 and a low of 17,057. The disappointing economic numbers from Japan had a negative impact on the Indian Markets…

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The Nifty fell below 5,080 and closed at 5,066 on lack of buying support. The Nifty December futures continued to trade at a premium and shed 233,300 shares in open interest, indicating that bear operators are using the current sideways movement to cover short positions. Bloomberg data s…

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Obama eyes bank bailout funds to create jobs, help businesses get loans; speech on Tuesday WASHINGTON (AP) — Under heavy pressure to get Americans back to work, President Barack Obama on Monday suggested using a suddenly available pot of money left over from the government’s …

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In October 2009, FDI was at US$2.3bn. The flow of foreign direct investments (FDI) into the country saw a jump of 56% at US$2.3bn in October against the same period last year. In October 2008, FDI was at US$1.5bn. During April-October 2009-10, FDI stood at US $17.6bn compared to US $18.7…

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