Bloodbath on BSE – Predictions Come True

On the weekend of Diwali, our Analyst took time out to inform you all about the impending correction as soon as he was alerted by the FII report on India. We saw Bloodbath on the bourses today. BSE Bankex was hammered down and all the SENSEX stocks were down except TCS.

All the sectoral indices on BSE suffered losses. BSE Bankex (down 4.89% to 10,237.68), BSE Capital Goods Index (down 4.34% at 19,466.24), BSE Metal Index (down 3.78% at 16,656.36), BSE Realty (down 2.92% to 10,142.65), BSE PSU index (down 4.43% to 9,777.98), underperformed the Sensex.

BSE Oil and Gas Index (down 2.67% at 11,812.98), BSE Consumer Durables index (down 2.83% to 5,180.07), BSE Auto Index (down 2.43% at 5,209.58), BSE FMCG Index (down 2.76% at 2,137.03), BSE Health Care Index (down 2.26% at 3,856.92), BSE IT Index (down 0.61% at 4,029.76) and BSE TecK index (down 1.23% to 3,571.37), were outperformers.

i-flex Solutions + IZB Informatik-Zentrum partnership

i-flex Solutions has informed us that the company and IZB Informatik-Zentrum, a Munich-based IT and telecommunication service provider for the financial sector has announced a strategic partnership to deliver a full range of banking application services to German banks. To this end, IZB Informatik-Zentrum will be using FLEXCUBE, i-flex’s flagship product, to deliver value-added application providing services (ASP) tailored to the specific needs of German banks.

i-flex is majority owned and managed by Oracle.

Gail India’s e-business inititaive applauded

GAIL India has received appreciation from K S Ramasubban, secretary (CVC) for its innovative initiatives undertaken for transparency and corporate governance today. The company provides a role model for e-business by leveraging technology like e-payment, e-banking, e-tendering, e-ledger, e-invoicing in its business dealings.

The complaint system is one of the latest e-initiatives in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) of the company which has been in the forefront of launching e-systems for ensuring consumer satisfaction and transparency in dealings. The company has signed MOU with Transparency international India and independent external monitors have been appointed in consultation with the CVC. The company has taken a number of initiatives for e-business, bill watch system, file movement system for fast decision making, customer relation management, customer grievance redressal system, alarm activation and ERP applications.