Adani Power promoters sell 8.1% stake for $1 billion

Adani Power promoters sell 8.1% stake for $1 billion

Mumbai: Two promoter entities of Adani Power Ltd sold shares worth more than ₹8,710 crore (over $1 billion) to US-based investment firm GQG Partners, its co-investors, and others on Wednesday in block deals. Worldwide Emerging Market Holding Ltd and Afro Asia Trade and Investments Ltd, the two promoter entities, together sold 312 million shares translating … Read more

Bearish bets on IT bellwether Infosys reach highest since 2017

Bearish bets on IT bellwether Infosys reach highest since 2017

Recession fears have driven analysts to their most bearish on Indian information-technology sector bellwether Infosys Ltd. since uncertainties surrounding Brexit rocked the more than $200 billion sector six years ago. Around one-in-five analysts covering the company rate it a sell, the highest proportion since September 2017, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The stock is down … Read more

Hindenburg-inflicted losses still weigh heavily on Adani stocks

Hindenburg-inflicted losses still weigh heavily on Adani stocks

About four months after US short-seller Hindenburg Research shook Indian financial markets with a bombshell report on the Adani Group, the conglomerate’s stocks are finding it hard to shake off the impact. While two of Adani’s 10 stocks have bounced back strongly, a full recovery to pre-Hindenburg levels looks a ways away. The group’s market … Read more

Adani to raise $3.5 bn from share sale in three group cos

Adani to raise $3.5 bn from share sale in three group cos

Billionaire Gautam Adani‘s conglomerate is looking to raise about USD 3 billion through an equity share sale to institutional investors in the boldest comeback strategy after the ports-to-energy group was hit by a damning report of a US short seller. While boards of Adani Enterprises Ltd – the group’s flagship firm – and electricity transmission … Read more

GQG’s Rajiv Jain raises Adani stake by about 10% for $3.5 billion bet

GQG’s Rajiv Jain raises Adani stake by about 10% for $3.5 billion bet

NEW DELHI: NRI investor Rajiv Jain‘s GQG Partners, which had made a brave contra call by investing over Rs 15,000 crore in Adani stocks in the peak of the Hindenburg-led stock rout, has raised its stake in Adani Group by about 10%. “Within five years, we would like to be one of the largest investors … Read more

Six entities under lens for suspicious trading in Adani shares: SC panel

Six entities under lens for suspicious trading in Adani shares: SC panel

New Delhi: Six entities including four foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) are under lens for suspicious trading in Adani group shares prior to the release of the damning Hindenburg report, the Supreme Court-appointed expert committee has said. There was a build up of short positions in the Adani scips prior to the January 24 release of … Read more

Adani stocks lose $10 billion in value as MSCI exclusion weighs

Adani stocks lose $10 billion in value as MSCI exclusion weighs

Stocks part of Adani Group have lost a combined $10 billion in market value this week, weighed down by MSCI Inc.’s move to exclude two entities from its India gauge and concerns over potential dilution from a fundraising plan. Adani Total Gas Ltd. and Adani Transmission Ltd. — the two stocks to be dropped from … Read more

JPMorgan investment arm purges its ESG funds of Adani stocks

JPMorgan investment arm purges its ESG funds of Adani stocks

The asset management unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co. has wiped its ESG portfolios clean of their exposure to the Adani empire. The move, captured by an analysis of data compiled by Bloomberg, comes as a number of major investment firms such as BlackRock Inc. and the fund management unit of Deutsche Bank AG, DWS … Read more

Adani rout has room to run as charts show 85% call still valid

Adani rout has room to run as charts show 85% call still valid

The rout in Adani Group shares has room to run based on charts that show key stocks in Gautam Adani’s empire may still extend declines to the 85% downside flagged by Hindenburg Research.The combined market value of the 10 listed companies in the group has slumped by $146 billion, or about 60%, since the US-based … Read more

Adani credit facilities expose collateral web full of red flags

Adani credit facilities expose collateral web full of red flags

Financing arrangements across the Adani Group conglomerate have sent a fresh chill through ESG markets as investors wake up to a new risk. Norway’s largest pension fund, KLP, recently dumped its entire holding of shares in Adani Green Energy Ltd., the renewables part of the empire, amid concerns that it might inadvertently have helped finance … Read more