Articles for Market Participants

Vivek Kaul: RBI’s new governor will have to confront a tricky old trilemma
1 week, 1 day ago

Vivek Kaul: RBI’s new governor will have to confront a tricky old trilemma

Live Mint  

Shaktikanta Das’ tenure as governor of the Reserve Bank of India has come to an end. For companies, lower rates mean lower interest outflows on their existing borrowings and hence higher profits and possibly higher stock prices. For market participants, lower rates mean that retail investors are incentivized to invest more in stocks in search of higher returns, leading to …

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SEBI puts in place SOP for handling commodity exchange outages, extension of trading hours
6 months, 3 weeks ago

SEBI puts in place SOP for handling commodity exchange outages, extension of trading hours

The Hindu  

SEBI on May 27 came out with a standard operating procedure asking stock exchanges having commodity derivatives segment to inform about trading disruptions within 15 minutes of such occurrences and extending the trading time by 30 minutes in certain outage conditions. For contracts or products traded up to 5 p.m./9 p.m., SEBI said that if trading resumes to normalcy at …

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ETF Delay, Interest Rate Hike, More: Factors Affecting Current Crypto Prices
1 year, 2 months ago

ETF Delay, Interest Rate Hike, More: Factors Affecting Current Crypto Prices

ABP News  

While 2022 was a challenging year for the entire cryptocurrency market, the dawn of 2023 brought a glimmer of hope as most cryptocurrencies began to rebound from the losses incurred in the preceding year. This strengthening of the dollar typically signals a robust domestic economy and can be driven by multiple factors, including higher interest rates, increased investor confidence in …

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NSE launches WTI crude oil, natural gas futures
1 year, 7 months ago

NSE launches WTI crude oil, natural gas futures

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The National Stock Exchange on Monday announced the launch of rupee-denominated NYMEX WTI Crude Oil and Natural Gas futures in its commodity derivatives segment. After receiving the approval from Securities & Exchange Board of India, the NSE signed a data licensing agreement with CME Group that allowed the Indian exchange to list, trade and settle rupee-denominated NYMEX WTI …

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MSCI reviews Adani Group securities amid sell-off crisis
1 year, 10 months ago

MSCI reviews Adani Group securities amid sell-off crisis

The Hindu  

Index provider MSCI said on Thursday it was reviewing the free float status of Adani Group securities after market participants raised concerns about the eligibility of companies in the Indian conglomerate for some of its indexes. “MSCI has received feedback from a range of market participants concerning the eligibility and free float determination of specific securities associated with the Adani …

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Adani Group stocks fall after 2 days of gains as MSCI to do free float review
1 year, 10 months ago

Adani Group stocks fall after 2 days of gains as MSCI to do free float review

Live Mint  

Index provider MSCI said on Thursday that it was reviewing the free float status of Adani Group securities after market participants raised concerns about the eligibility of companies in the Gautam Adani-led Indian Group for some of its indexes. Adani Group’s shares, which rebounded this week, fell in opening deals today with flagship Adani Enterprises dropping as much as 15% …

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Rupee, bond yields seen in narrow range as 2022 ends
1 year, 11 months ago

Rupee, bond yields seen in narrow range as 2022 ends

Live Mint  

The Indian rupee and government bond yields are expected to trade in a narrow range amid thin volume this week, the last of 2022, due to the lack of major triggers, with the rupee also likely to continue to benefit from the central bank's support. Indian government bond yields, too, may remain largely rangebound in thin trading volume as the …

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Bitcoin tops $57,000 after Tesla starts accepting crypto asset as payment
3 years, 9 months ago

Bitcoin tops $57,000 after Tesla starts accepting crypto asset as payment

Live Mint  

Prices of the world’s oldest cryptocurrency, bitcoin, regained the $57,000 level on Wednesday after Tesla chief Elon Musk announced that people can now start buying the company’s electric vehicles using the digital asset. Bitcoin, which was trading in the red below the $54,000 level spurted past the $57,000 level reacting to the Musk’s announcement. “Aside from demand holding firm and …

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The invisible hand in India’s stock market
3 years, 9 months ago

The invisible hand in India’s stock market

Live Mint  

Not many people would have heard about these firms. While these are basic examples of what an algo can do, market participants say that more complex and sophisticated algos are now being used by the deep-pocketed global and even domestic institutional investors and brokerages. That is a pretty large share considering the fact that algo trading was allowed in India …

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IEX launches two new contracts for renewable energy trading
4 years ago

IEX launches two new contracts for renewable energy trading

Live Mint  

Power trading platform Indian Energy Exchange has expanded its delivery based green market with the launch of two new products - Green Daily Contract and Green Weekly Contract. With this launch, IEX Green Market now has four contracts, and offers greater choice to the market participants to buy renewable energy on the same day and upto 11 days ahead. IEX’s …

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How a piece of hardware took down world’s third biggest stock market
4 years, 2 months ago

How a piece of hardware took down world’s third biggest stock market

Live Mint  

At 7:04 a.m. on an autumn Thursday in Tokyo, the stewards of the world’s third-largest equity market realized they had a problem. “Exchanges are a crucial part of market infrastructure and it’s unacceptable that trading opportunities were denied,” Finance Minister Taro Aso told reporters in Tokyo. “We didn’t know if it was our system or the exchange,” said Masaya Akiba, …

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Tokyo stock markets reopen after hardware failure halted trade all day; shares seen rebounding, says expert
4 years, 2 months ago

Tokyo stock markets reopen after hardware failure halted trade all day; shares seen rebounding, says expert

Firstpost  

Officials said there was no indication of a cyber attack and the problem was traced to a memory breakdown that failed to trigger a switch to a backup system Tokyo: Tokyo stock markets successfully reopened on Friday after a hardware failure caused an unprecedented day-long halt to trade on one of the world’s biggest exchanges. “We would like to express …

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The share market is telling us how we're doing in the fight against coronavirus
4 years, 4 months ago

The share market is telling us how we're doing in the fight against coronavirus

ABC  

The share market has, so far, proven to be an accurate measure of how well Australia is handling the pandemic. When coronavirus first struck, the market recorded some if its biggest falls in history, but it's since been slowly clawing its way back up as some restrictions ease. Let's not forget tens of billions of dollars in money printing by …

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