Adani faces a critical day on Monday with his flagship company's $2.5 bn share sale's second day of bidding overshadowed by a $48 bn rout in his stocks which was sparked by a US short seller's report
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Myriad issues like recent protests by the fisherfolk, back-to-back floods in Kerala, Cyclone Ockhi have taken wind out of Adani Group's sails, forcing its Rs 7,500-cr project to move at snail's pace
The Adani Group dismissed the report as "maliciously mischievous" and said it's exploring legal action
He was kidnapped by bandits in 1998 for ransom and when terrorists attacked Mumbai almost 11 years later, he was among the hostages held at the seafront Taj Hotel. College-dropout Gautam Adani's knack of surviving crises and his business acumen has propelled him to the ranks of India's richest but he now faces possibly the biggest challenge of his career. Hindenburg Research, a tiny New York firm that specialises in short selling, brought out a scathing report that has led to his group shedding more than USD 50 billion in market value in just two trading sessions and Adani himself losing in excess of USD 20 billion, or about one-fifth of his total fortune. The 60-year-old tycoon has now slipped behind Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to be the seventh-richest person in the world from the pre-Hindenburg position of being the third richest. More than his personal status, at stake is the reputation of an empire the first-generation entrepreneur built over three-and-half decades. The ...
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The Congress called for an investigation after a US-based research firm in its report raised concerns about the possibility of shares of Adani Group companies declining from their current levels
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Indias largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) said that its exposure to the Adani Group was well below the RBI's Large Exposure Framework and was secured by cash generating assets
The regulator had sought clarity from the group on these entities when the group approached it for regulatory clearance last year. These responses are under regulatory examination, sources said
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Offer garners just 1% subscription on opening day, with bids worth just Rs 150 cr vs Rs 14,908 cr on offer
Group loses $50 bn in m-cap in two sessions; Contagion fear drags market, banking stocks
Lender says all exposures secured by cash generating assets, and debt service will not be a challenge
Adani group stocks have seen an overall erosion of Rs 4.18 trillion ($50 billion) of market value
Total m-cap lowest since March 2022 after 2-day decline
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The sell-off in Adani Group firms has wiped out $45 billion of investors' wealth over the last two sessions after Hindenburg Research alleged "brazen stock manipulation"
Closing Bell: Adani Enterprises and Adani Ports were the leading Nifty losers, which ended 18 and 15 per cent lower, respectively. SBI, ICICI Bank, IndusInd Bank were next in line sinking up to 5%
Adani Enterprises, Adani Ports, ACC and Ambuja Cements witnessed significant build-up of OI in tandem with a fall in stock price so far this week, indicating build-up of shorts at these counters.