SEBI would take strict actions against illegal overseas lending and borrowing of Indian securities by FIIs. The regulatory body said in a release that it would not allow the overseas lending and borrowing activity of FIIs as it is not in the favor of cash market in India. It would give a vigil watch to such activities and may take more measures to deal with the lending/borrowing by FIIs.
The security and exchange board of India already asked FIIs to provide details of sub accounts and securities held by them. The detail would be available on the website of SEBI.
The government is taking various steps to ease the liquidity situation in the country. Now, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cuts rapo rates after successive cuts in the cash reserve ratio (CRR). The apex bank slashed rapo rates by 100 basis points. This is the step against the tight monetary policy adopted by the central bank. It is the first ever reduction in the rapo rates after March 2004. Rapo rates now stands at 8 percent.
The banks also started to slash the interest rates for consumers after revision of rapo rates. The fifth-largest state-owned bank, Union Bank of India reduced interest rates on home loan by 50 basis points up to a loan Rs 30 lakh.
The increasing problems for the Indian Carriers due to rising expenses, especially the rise in aviation fuel recently initiated an unwanted episode of firing of employees.
Following this, the owner of Kingfisher, Vijay Mallya approached the Parliament and Naresh Goyal of Jet Airways knocked the door of finance minister P Chidambaram with the aim to get tax relief for airlines.
“Job cuts and layoffs coupled with high aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices and larger taxes can affect in the number of flights which is likely to go down,” reported Mallya.