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Analysts say Yum!'s - which operates Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut food chains - performance has improved, driven by aggressive store expansion vis-a-vis other players

Vedanta dividend 2023: The company has already given four interim dividends totalling Rs 81 so far in the current financial year

The direct investment in the cash segment by retail investors continues to be muted

Global Surfaces Ltd, which is into processing natural stones and manufacturing engineered quartz, on Friday said it has set a price band of Rs 133-140 a share for its Initial Public Offering (IPO). The initial share sale, which opens for subscription on March 13, will close on March 15, the company said in a statement. The IPO comprises fresh issuance of 85.20 lakh equity shares and an Offer For Sale of up to 25.5 lakh equity shares by promoters -- Mayank Shah and Sweta Shah. Funds raised through fresh issuance will be used for setting up the company's proposed facility -- Global Surfaces FZE -- in Dubai. At the upper end of the price band, the company is expected to fetch Rs 155 crore from the IPO. Half of the issue size has been reserved for qualified institutional buyers, up to 35 per cent for retail investors and the remaining 15 per cent for non-institutional investors. Unistone Capital is the sole book running lead manager to the issue. The equity shares of the company will

Equity mutual funds attracted Rs 15,685 crore in February, making it the highest net infusion in nine months despite significant volatility in the stock markets. This is higher than Rs 12,546 crore inflow seen in January and Rs 7,303 crore reported in December. February also saw the 24th straight month of inflows into equity-oriented mutual fund schemes, data with the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi) showed on Friday. Backed by healthy inflow into equity funds, the mutual fund industry saw an inflow of Rs 9,575 crore in February. As per the data, the total net flows in equity schemes stood at Rs 15,685 crore. This was the highest level since May 2022, when equity funds attracted Rs 18,529 crore. Investors continue to invest in a disciplined manner, countering the volatility in stock markets arising out of Foreign Portfolio Investor (FPI) outflows, Gopal Kavalireddi, Head of Research at FYERS, said. Moreover, contribution from SIP (Systematic Investment Plan) has been .

With an aim to recover fines from elusive offenders, capital markets regulator Sebi on Thursday introduced a reward system for up to Rs 20 lakh to informants for sharing information about the assets of defaulters. The reward may be granted in two stages -- interim and final. While the interim reward amount will not exceed two and a half per-cent of the reserve price of the asset regarding which tips was provided or Rs 5 lakh, whichever is less and the final reward amount will not exceed 10 per cent of the dues recovered or Rs 20 lakh, whichever is less. Coming out with guidelines on grant of reward to an informant who provides credible information about the assets of the defaulter under recovery proceedings, Sebi said, "information and the identity provided by the informant or the reward paid to him shall be held in confidence." As per Sebi, a person will be considered to be an informant eligible for reward if he or she furnishes original information in relation to the asset of a .

Embattled Adani Group on Tuesday said it has repaid share-based financing of Rs 7,374 crore (over USD 900 million) and will prepay all such remaining loans by the end of the month, as it looks to allay concerns over leverage and debt to win over investors. The repayment will release pledge on shares of promoters in four group companies, it said in a statement, adding that together with repayments done earlier, the group has prepaid USD 2.016 billion of share-backed financing. In September last year, CreditSights, a Fitch Group unit, said the group was "deeply overleveraged" as it used debt to expand an empire centred on ports and coal mining to include airports, data centres and cement as well as green energy. In a January 24 report, US short seller Hindenburg Research flagged "substantial" debt levels at the group while alleging accounting fraud and use of offshore shell companies to inflate stock prices. The group has denied all Hindenburg allegations, calling them "malicious", .

Stock market holiday news: While most people are celebrating Holi on Wednesday, March 8, BSE and NSE have declared a stock market holiday on March 7

Eligible NPOs can begin by registering on the SSE segment. Post-onboarding, NPOs can initiate the fund mobilisation process by issuing instruments

The announcement has been made to safeguard investors from traders who claim to have services other than broking services without having the applicable registration

The value of foreign portfolio investors' (FPI) holdings in the domestic equities reached USD 584 billion at the end of December 2022, which was 11 per cent lower from preceding year, according to a Morningstar report. This was largely on low return given by the Indian equities and exodus of foreign money from the domestic stock market. Going by the report, the value of FPIs investments in Indian equities dropped to USD 584 billion as of December 2022 as compared to USD 654 billion at the end of December 2021. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, the value of FPIs investment grew 3 per cent from USD 566 billion in the three months ended September 2022. This was also the second consecutive quarter, when the value of their investment in the domestic stock market had increased. Consequently, FPIs' contribution to Indian equity market capitalisation also went up during the quarter to 17.12 per cent from 16.97 per cent in the September 2022 quarter. After posting a robust growth in 2020 and

European and Indian stocks are both higher today than when the conflict began

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian tycoon Gautam Adani's conglomerate has been pummelled by a stock rout and come under increasing scrutiny after U.S. short-seller Hindenburg Research

TotalEnergies has not yet signed a contract announced last year to extend its partnership with India's Adani to the production of green hydrogen, the chief executive of the French oil major said

The decision to undertake an independent assessment comes at a time when investor faith in the group has been shaken

Since then, various Adani Group stocks have lost 16 per cent (in case of ACC) to 60 per cent of their market capitalisation or m-cap (in case of Adani Total Gas)

Investors have been worried about various banks' exposure to the Adani Group ever since U.S.-based short-seller Hindenburg Research alleged improper use of offshore tax havens and stock manipulation

Vaishnaw declined to comment on how allegations against Adani were being assessed by the government

Stocks to watch today: The Board of Adani Enterprises (AEL) has announced that it will not go-ahead with the fully subscribed Follow-on Public Offer (FPO)

CLOSING BELL: Broader markets were unable to recover from the intra-day lows with BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices dropping up to 1 per cent