Reserve Bank of India on Monday allowed foreign institutional investors to offer domestic and foreign government securities as collateral to stock exchanges for cash segment transactions. According to market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India’s regulations, FIIs are required to post collaterals for their transactions in the cash segment of the market.
SEBI chairman C B Bhave, and IRDA chief J Harinarayan had separate meetings with finance secretary Ashok Chawla on Monday over the ongoing tussle between the two regulators over equity-linked insurance schemes. The differences between the two regulators over administration of the unit-linked insurance products (ULIPs) are likely to be resolved by this evening, IRDA chief Harinarayan indicated after his meeting with Chawla.
Ministry of defence plans to oppose a proposal from the ministry of commerce and industry to allow foreign defence corporations to establish fully-owned defence units in India. The new Consolidated Foreign Direct Investment Policy, effective from April 1, limits FDI in defence units to 26 per cent. But the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion of the commerce ministry is in favour of raising this limit.
A senior official in the finance ministry said the Central Board of Direct Taxes addressed the nine areas of concern in the Code identified by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. Besides, many other parts would be changed to take care of the concerns of various stakeholders.
New Delhi, the 13th April, 2010- Notification No. 18 / 2010-Central Excise (N.T.).G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 3A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend Chewing Tobacco and Unmanufactured Tobacco Packing Machines (Capacity Determination and Collection of Duty) Rules, 2010, namely :-
(i) Jarda scented Tobacco falling under Tariff item 2403 99 30 of the First Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986),manufactured with the aid of packing machine and packed in pouches as notified goods, on which there shall be levied and collected duty of excise in accordance with the provisions of the said section 3A.
Despite being one of the most complex methods of stock valuation, Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis gained wide popularity following the Great Stock Market Crash of 1929. Though DCF calculation has been used in some form or other since ancient times, it was formally expressed in modern economic terms for the first time by Mr Irving Fisher in his book “The Theory of Interest” in 1930.
Notification No. LAD-NRO/GN/2010-11/06/1097, dated 13-4-2010. In exercise of the powers conferred by section 30 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (15 of 1992), the Board hereby makes the following Regulations to further amend the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Stock Brokers and Sub- Brokers) Regulations, 1992, namely :-
EBITDA (Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortisation) multiple is often called as Enterprise Multiple since it takes into account entire enterprise irrespective of capital structure. It takes into account a company’s debt and cash levels in addition to its stock price and relates that value to the firm’s cash profitability. It is calculated by using the following formula:
Price-To-Earnings Ratio is one of the simplest and most popular method of valuation which measures the price paid for a single share in comparison to its earnings per share. It is calculated by using the following formula:PE Ratio= Market Value Per Share / Earnings Per Share (EPS)
