What is ISIN?

ISIN or International Securities Identification Number is a 12 character alpha-numeric code that uniquely identifies a security, across the ...

20-20 rule in stock selection? Interesting!

ET has this interesting article on stock selection in a bearish/bullish market . The idea it churns out is something like this. When the mar...

SEBI makes IPOs more transparent

The Securities and Exchange Board of India, SEBI, issued a new investor protection guideline that prevents companies doing IPO from sharing ...

Now Interest Rate Futures can be traded in National Stock Exchange

After a gap of six years, the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India re-launched trading in Interest Rate Futures. This will give the invest...

SEBI mandates Rs. per share dividend declaration

In a good move, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, SEBI, has asked listed companies to declare dividends on a per share basis rathe...

The Stock Markets may be on Recovery

The Indian Stock Markets have performed promisingly well in the last few weeks. Though the performance wasn’t an all-round one comprising ma...

How does Short Term Capital Gain/Loss work?

I found this interesting snippet circulated through email by ICICIDirect, which describes in simple anecdotes how Short Term Capital Gain/Lo...

Investing in times of recession

One of the reasons why the stock markets are taking time to comeback is the lack of ‘investible’ money in the hands of people. Most of the m...

Application Supported by Blocked Amount for IPOs

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has introduced Application Supported by Blocked Amount (ASBA); a supplementary process for...

What are the 30 Stocks of BSE SENSEX

The SENSEX gives an indicative figure of the trading happened in BSE, which is the chief stock market of India. A group of 30 stocks that re...

Online share trading websites of India

Ever since the dematerialization of shares happened in India, stock trading has shifted its base to the internet world. It made share tradin...

CFDs: Contract for Difference

An agreement between buyer and seller of an asset saying that the seller will pay the buyer the difference between current value and end of ...

SEBI to introduce Currency Futures

The Market regulator SEBI has announced that it will introduce exchange traded currency futures in the next three months. The currency futur...

Money no longer gets locked in IPOs

When investors apply for Initial Public Offering (IPO), they have to pay money upfront to the registrar/banker with whom the money gets lock...

Markets come of age?

From its teen ages, the SENSEX had nibbled the 20K mark yesterday and much of today’s opening was above the same though at present it’s trad...