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12 firms to default in 2012. Are FCCBs losing their charm?
Sanjit Oberai •Calendar year 2012 seems to be the year of reckoning for foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) as almost $ 7 billion worth of bonds are set to mature this year.
Having lost Rs 750 crore on MTNL, LIC wants out now
Fp Editors •LIC finds that its investment in MTNL is a dud. But it wants to sell out just as the state telecom players appears to have developed a better strategy
LIC & ONGC: An insurer discovers love in dying minutes
Shishir Asthana •True love can happen in minutes. And so LIC discovered that it was dying for ONGC's shares just before the embers of the auction process were dying.
Huh! $5 bn FII money pumped in markets this Feb?
Fp Archives •This is the highest monthly net investment by FIIs in equities since October 2010, where they had infused Rs 28,563 crore.
The EPFO is ruining your savings; time to wind it down
Jagannathan •The EPFO needs to be wound down and its corpus transferred in phases to the re-energised National Pension Scheme.
Why is iGate giving Patni's investors a rotten deal?
Shishir Asthana •The offer price of Rs 356.74 offered by iGate to buy out the remaining shareholders of Patni is too far below the offer it made just nine months ago.
Your petrol price cut has cost investors Rs 4,400 cr
Shishir Asthana •The petrol price rollback is vexing the stocks of oil companies at a time when government is not compensating them adequately.
Sept quarter: Ghost of 2008 is back to torment investors
Fp Editors •Even gold lost some of its lustre as a safe-haven asset, as September turned into one of the shiny metal's worst months in recent years, although it ended the quarter with respectable gains.<br /><br /> <br /><br />
FMCG beats Sensex at its own game, but valuation a turn-off
Bose •Judging by the June-ending quarter results, the sector seems to be cruising along. Overall, consumer goods companies have posted a healthy 2.5 percent growth in revenues.
If Subbarao's a hawk, he should be raising interest rates
Fp Archives •If the RBI Governor wants to be seen as the man who defended the rupee, he should be doing more than holding rates