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GAAR postponed for a year; Foreign investors breathe easy, rupee gains

After a couple of months of stress and anxiety over The General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) and its provisions, foreign investors can finally breathe easy as Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has deferred GAAR by a year. Mukherjee also said the ...

Investors await response to debate on Finance bill

Markets and investors, particularly foreign investors are keenly awaiting a debate on the Finance Bill, with hopes of a re-think on the General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) provisions. It is unlikely that Pranab Mukherjee will make any changes, though the ...

Nifty breaks 200 DMA; What next?

With NSE Nifty breaking below the 200 day, daily moving average (DMA), markets are expected to be under selling pressure as trading resumes next week. Clearly, technically the markets look weak and fundamentals too suggest a downward pressure. To begin with ...

What's bugging foreign investors?

Last week the Swiss based investment banking firm UBS downgraded Indian shares to neutral, saying it preferred China to India. Earlier, CLSA, Asia’s leading and longest-running independent brokerage and investment group cut the Sensex target citing several reasons in doing so. ...

Preference for China rather than India: UBS

Global investment bank, UBS has downgraded Indian equities to "neutral" from "overweight", Reuters has reported. The investment bank has said China is the better bet and India was unlikely to see big downside surprises on inflation and hence no aggressive ...

Rupee may witness bearish trend next week

The partially convertible Indian rupee which has exhibited volatility since the beginning of this year is expected to trade lower next week, as adverse newsflows will play a wet blanket. Stock markets generally move in tandem with the rupee and ...

Markets surge as FM clarifies on P-notes taxation

Markets rallied smartly today following comments from the Finance Minister that the question of liability for tax in India of participatory note holders (FIIs) would not arise. The BSE Sensex closed the day higher by 311 points at 17,370 points, while ...

Markets open lower as global rally sees a pause

Markets opened the day lower as the rally in global markets saw a pause. The BSE Sensex was trading lower by 93 points at 17,164 points and the NSE was trading at 5211.40 points, 31.75 points lower at 9.20 AM ...

GAAR: A new headache for markets and foreign investors

Markets and foreign investors are now bracing for a new ambiguous policy: General Anti-Avoidance Rule (GAAR). Learning quickly from the Vodafone ruling in which the government lost the case in the Supreme Court, Finance Minister introduced GAAR with effect from April ...

GAAR, FII selling spooks markets

The New General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR) provisions which will be applicable from April 1, saw large scale selling pressure from Foreign Institutional Investors, with markets still unclear on the impact of the provisions. The Sensex closed the day down 308 ...

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