During the year gone by, the National Stock Exchange (NSE) represented the largest share of trading in corporate bonds at 75 per cent. Bonds worth Rs 13.41 lakh crore were traded on the exchange in the period.
The Sensex ended the session up 88.90 points at 34,592.39, a rise of 0.26 per cent, while the Nifty rose by 30.05 points or 0.28 per cent to end the session at 10,681.25.
The RBI had remained net buyer of the US currency in November as it purchased $864 million from the spot market.
Residential Market: 2,18,500 units sold last year in nine cities — Gurgaon, Noida, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad — against 2,63,500 units in 2016.
The 30-share Sensex was trading higher by 76.05 points or 0.22 per cent at 34,579.54 at 1050 hrs.
The NSE Nifty traded higher by 9.05 points, or 0.08 per cent, at 10,641.25 in the opening trade.
Old 10-year benchmark bond yield hits highest level since introduced in May 2017.
Forex dealers said persistent inflows of foreign funds and weakness in the dollar against other currencies overseas supported the domestic unit.
Rising for the third straight day, the 30-share index spurted by 134.73 points, or 0.39 per cent, to hit a new peak of 34,487.52.
Apart from IFCI Factors, the other three entities are Shiva Cement's promoters -- Unicon Merchants, Akash Gupta and Preeti Gupta.
According to a Sebi order dated January 4, ARDIL had issued and allotted secured redeemable non-convertible debentures (NCDs) to at least 1,524 investors during the financial years 2011-12 and 2012-13 and raised an amount of over Rs 1.35 crore.
In its final order, the regulator has now revoked its directions against seven persons -- including two former CEOs Shreekant Javalgekar and Joseph Massey -- who had faced action for alleged insider trading in MCX shares.
Apart from renaming indices, IISL has announced closure of NIFTY Full Midcap 100 and NIFTY Full Smallcap 100 index with effect from April 2, 2018.
This is the highest finish for the home currency since April 29, 2015 when it had settled at 63.30.
The finance ministry on Thursday sought Parliament's nod for extra expenditure of Rs 80,000 crore towards recapitalisation of bad loans-saddled public sector banks through bonds.
Deficit concerns due to declining GST collection & additional govt borrowing have not hurt the equity markets much this time as FPIs, who take this data seriously, are not the only drivers and domestic retail money has witnessed a big surge.
The new norms will be applicable to all schemes of mutual funds with effect from February 1, 2018.
The dollar's gains against major world currencies after a strong US manufacturing data also impacted the rupee sentiment, a currency dealer said.
The Sensex opened a shade higher at 33,929.61 and advanced to 33,998.37, before falling to a low of 33,765.43.
TCS, Coal India Mahindra & Mahindra, Yes Bank, L&T, Hindustan Unilever, ITC and Tata Steel also gained up to 1 per cent in morning session.However, Dr Reddy's fell the most by 2.5 per cent, Tata Motors by 0.98 per cent and ONGC by 0.96 per cent.
Brokers said buying by domestic institutional investors (DIIs) and foreign funds amid a firm trend at other Asian bourses following yet another record close on Wall Street improved the market sentiment.
On Tuesday, the rupee closed at nearly 2-1/2 year high of 63.48, surging by 20 paise against the US dollar
Heavy dollar unwinding by speculative traders support the domestic currency.
However, the rupee lost steam soon and retreated to a low of 63.72 at 0930 hrs, down by 4 paise compared to previous close of 63.68 a dollar.
In October 2017, Sebi sent a second proposal suggesting that a “uniform procedure” be put in place for piloting all enforcement proceedings under the securities laws.






