Indian stock market rises today – News

The benchmark BSE index fell 2.1 percent for the
week, posting a third weekly decline after emerging markets were hit hard by the U.S. Federal Reserve's signal of a rollback in its monetary stimulus and weak manufacturing data in China.

 
The Nifty should not go below 5,500 in current circumstances until and unless the government remains silent

    The news sent the rupee to a record low, sparking
fears foreign investors would sell domestic assets to avoid
seeing their returns eroded. Overseas funds have been sellers for eight consecutive sessions for a total of 59.5 billion rupees ($995.82 million). 
    Indian shares are expected to remain volatile next week
ahead of the expiry of June derivative contracts on Thursday and investors will continue to monitor global markets.
    "Foreign investors more specifically ETFs are panicking but government measures, pep talk may help shares in the near term

Julia gillard air & hair on national port authority plan

It's estimated that trade through our nation's ports will triple over the next 20 years.

 

The Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese will unveil the plan in Perth. With an eye to that prediction the Federal Government is launching its National Ports Strategy later today aimed at boosting productivity and eliminating the bottlenecks that held back the last commodities boom

Australian stock market Update

With the merger war between Dell, Inc. (DELL) and Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) at last drawing to a close with the latest $33 a share offer from HP for 3par, Inc. (PAR), tech stocks have really been in focus lately. A spate of merger and acquisition action has prompted a renewed focus on information technology companies, particularly cloud computing stocks.

However, don't be fooled into thinking that a bunch of big spenders in the technology sector means that all tech picks are doing well. In fact, a number of big name blue chips in the industry continue to face very difficult roads ahead. Here are 5 blue chip tech stocks stumbling right now


Wesfarmers has pulled out of the race to acquire the assets of financially strapped miner Griffin Coal.

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International banking regulators known as the Basel Committee will likely require banks to have a Tier 1 capital ratio of 6 percent, up from 4 percent, said the BdB banking association, whose members include lenders such as Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank.

Regulators are bumping up the amount of capital banks need to hold in an effort to ensure lenders have an array of loss-absorbing backstops that can be used in case of a downturn.

Buffers for capital conservation of an additional 2 percent and a countercyclical capital buffer of 2 percent more are also likely to be applied, the BdB said on Monday.

The Tier 1 ratio and each of the buffers probably would be composed of 80 percent of top quality or "core Tier 1" capital, which consists of equity capital and retained earnings, BdB said.