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The benchmark Nifty will be traded at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange from 19 July, making it the only globalized index in emerging Asia

Volcker, who is credited with taming inflation as US central bank chief in the 1980s, also gave his view on the economic recovery, which he said will be “a long slog”

The country’s largest stock exchange had announced earlier this week that it would launch futures and options products based on the commodity on Friday

Analysts said if the exchange starts operating Volatility Index, it would be a good tool to hedge the risk as investors can monitor the fear factor in the market

The regulator will allow an exchange to launch derivates on a volatility index that has a track record of at least a year

Sebi will discuss with the stock exchanges and institute an appropriate mechanism for physical delivery in derivatives market

The consensus view on the street is that the full implementation of the committee’s recommendations is difficult, especially considering the politically sensitive issue of deregulation of diesel and cooking fuel prices

The survey has usually been used as a contrarian indicator, with investors advised to exit crowded trades

Sebi issued the notice to the exchange for artificially creating volumes in the derivatives segment in 2008 through market makers without acquiring approvals from the regulator

The exchange-traded products are regulated by the Sebi anyway and hence, “...unlike many countries, India has established procedures for regulation of OTC derivatives”, the RBI report said

Foreign banks’ exposure to derivatives, letters of credit and guarantees declined 31.2% to Rs70 trillion at the end of March 2009 from Rs102.1 trillion last year

There is speculation whether the credit crunch in the fourth quarter of 2008 was due entirely to international factors or whether local factors such as the restrictive monetary policy played a role

The Indian Sugar Exim Corp. (ISEC) says it has suffered losses in currency hedging and blames Standard Chartered for bad advice

Guarantees on currency forwards, rate swaps by Clearing Corp means banks will need to set aside lower capital

“This will meet a large part of our equity and debt requirements... elections were a decisive factor and investors are very excited,” Tata Realty and Infrastructure chief financial officer Kishore Saletore said

On OTC derivatives, the committee has laid rather stringent guidelines on who can participate, with a minimum networth restriction of Rs500 crore at the client-level

ICICI Bank, ABN Amro, Axis Bank, Standard Chartered, State Bank of India are among those which sold currency-related derivatives to about 250 exporters from October 2007 onwards, when the rupee was appreciating fast

In options of any kind, the option buyer is under no obligation to exercise his option. However, once he chooses to do so, the option seller is bound to honour his promise

British bank alleges the Indian cement company owes it Rs179 cr; Sanghi hires Salve to fight claim in London court

In 1990-91, the percentage of total government expenditure to GDP was 38.13%