Markets & Investing

Flour mills to buy wheat from govt through e-auction

Come January and flour mills across the country will start buying wheat from government under open market sales scheme (OMSS) via electronic auction process on

Cotton use by mills down 2.4% on lower textile demand

Cotton consumption by domestic mills in 2008-09 (October-September) declined about 2.4 per cent year on year to 19.09 million bales (1 bale = 170 kg), ...

Cardamom prices up 50% on low output

Cardamom growers are reaping a good harvest as the prices of the commodity have jumped 50 per cent in the last two months due to ...

Delayed interest hurts sugar firms

Sugar mills are in a fix since the Union government has not disbursed the entire interest amount due to the banks under the Rs 4,000-crore ...

NCDEX to start online spot trading in Rajasthan

NCDEX Spot Exchange (NSPOT), a spot trading arm of the countrys largest agri commodities futures trading platform, National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX), is all ...

Scrap traders seek changes in tax duty structure

Faced with the threat of closure, metal scrap traders have appealed the government to reshuffle taxation structure to volume-based from value-based. ...

PE, M market set for upswing, say players

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and private equity (PE) investments in India dipped both in value and volume terms in 2009 due to the global slowdown. ...

'Deal sizes may go up'

Renuka Ramnath moved out of ICICI Ventures in 2009 to start her own alternative asset management firm, Multiples. A pioneer in the Indian private equity ...

'We are bullish on telecom, infrastructure'

Singapores Temasek, which is one of the largest sovereign wealth funds, manages $6.4 billion assets under in its South Asia portfolio. A majority of these ...