Issue: 0770 | Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Boost in oil prices as funds diversify towards commodities
Moody's releases its rating methodology for asset management firms
Retirement assets scale new heights
Setback for FX strategies
Global fund managers still reluctant about taking risks
TCS wins biggest ever Indian outsourcing contract
Emerging market debt register record issuances
Indian firms continue overseas acquisitions
 

 

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P-Notes and the Indian Stock Market

Mumbai - October 23, 2007

On Tuesday, October 17, 2007, the Bombay stock exchange (Sensex) opened lower by 9% from its previous day’s close, its biggest negative gap opening. The fall was triggered by the release of proposals by the stock market regulator, SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India), to tighten the rules for purchase of securities in Indian companies through participatory notes (P-Notes) - an offshore derivative instrument (ODI) used by overseas investors who buy shares anonymously.

SEBI’s proposals are aimed at regulating the flow of funds through Foreign Institutional Investor (FIIs) and include constraints on current and new ODIs with derivative underlyings, of FIIs and their sub-accounts. (Read more…)

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