Developments in information and communications technology, infrastructure improvements and technology adoption in the last decade have significantly changed the lives of the people and provided new opportunities for consumers and businesses. It brings consumers online and familiarity and comfort...

Bond markets are better indicators of the investment climate than equity markets and tend to react much faster. Global emerging local currency Bond markets have grown rapidly from US$ 1.4 trillion in 2000 to US$ 8.1 trillion in 2011.Debt Capital Market (DCM) development is a widely-discussed...

Business cycles and Market cycles are related, but they both have distinct attributes. The market cycle refers to the ups and downs of the financial market, while the business cycle refers to the ups and downs of the overall economy. The performance of particular sectors in stock market depends...

Blockchain is one of the most splendid technologies in today's industrial sector which is going to disrupt various sectors and the way the process, product, and services have been done today. Both government, corporate and institutions started exploring the opportunities in blockchain technology...

Indian stock market has seen a boom which was started from December 2005 and rallied throughout 2006-2007 and reached highest in 8th Jan 2008. The financial crisis that hit the global economy since the summer of 2007 had less impact on Indian economy and stock market. India's industrial growth...

On line services offer customers a splendid display of benefit such as enhanced control, ease of use and reduction transaction charges. In the last few years we have witnessed a substantial growth of Internet — based services, both from pure Internet businesses and from traditional companies...

Seasonality is a repeatable tendency of a financial instrument to move in relation to a particular influencing factor. That factor could be the time of year, the year of a decade, changes in interest rates, inflation, energy prices, etc. We focus on stock price action and seasonal cycles derived...

This paper examines the calendar anomalies in the NSE indices by analyzing the trends in annual returns and daily returns for the period 2002-07. A set of parametric and nonparametric tests are employed to test the equality of mean returns and standard deviations of the returns. The findings of...

Indian security market has seen a boom that started in December 2005 and rallied throughout 2006-07. It reached the highest in January 8, 2008, then started declining from October 2008, but is recovering now. India's industrial growth attracted more foreign investment which was the major reason...