What changed for market while you were sleeping

Major Asian stocks opened lower Tuesday after jitters over the speed of rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve drove down Wall Street shares overnight. MSCI’s index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was trading 0.54 per cent lower.

FPIs lap up banking and finance stocks as credit cycle recovers

Financial stocks are back in demand as fresh bank sanction of loans rose by 90% to Rs 1.4 lakh crore in FY22 after a multi-year drop in FY21. In the previous corporate capex cycle fresh bank sanctions rose to Rs 4 lakh cr between FY10 and FY11. Further, the real lending rates have turned softer.

DreamFolks Services’ IPO to open on Wednesday

The IPO consists of an offer for sale of up to 1.72 crore shares by the promoters and selling shareholders. Bids can be made for a minimum of 46 shares and in multiples of 46 shares thereafter. The proposed primary offering is open for subscription till Friday, August 26.

ONGC, Indian Oil to make joint bid for JBF Petrochemicals

ET had first reported on May 27 that Reliance Industries, HPCL-Mittal Energy, Jindal Poly Films, Gail, Jindal Power, MCPI Ltd, and a consortium of ONGC and Indian Oil have submitted expressions of interest (EoI) for JBF Petrochemicals.

SP Group may raise ‘low dividend’ issue at Tata Sons AGM

The Tata Group holding company posted a 164% rise in net profit to ₹17,171 crore in the year ended March and announced a dividend cash outflow of ₹404.15 crore, or about 2.4%. Officials close to the SP Group said this is meagre against the industry normal of more than 25% and over 70% at Tata […]