FIIs had mostly stayed away from Indian equities in 2011.
Suzlon needs to repay $360 million in June and $209 million in October.
homas Cook India (TCIL) on Thursday posted over three-time increase in consolidated net profit for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2011 at Rs 5.04 crore.
Emerging markets attracted close to $6 billion of fresh capital in equity funds during the first week of February, taking their total inflows so far in 2012 to $17 billion.
At 10:42 am, the rupee was at 49.29/30 to the dollar, stronger than Friday's close of 49.40/41 and off 49.54 struck in early trade.
The union government on Tuesday cut the growth estimate for the current fiscal year that ends in March. Still, the BSE Sensex is up nearly 15 percent this year while the rupee has risen about 8 percent from its 2011 close.
Shares of HPCL surged over 9 percent in early trade today on frenzied buying buoyed by an over 12-fold jump in net profit for the third quarter ended December 31.
Stocks turned lower on Thursday as initial enthusiasm faded over a long-stalled Greek deal and data indicating an improving US labour market.
The stock of Gammon Infra jumped to Rs 17.45, up 14.80 percent from the previous closing price, on NSE.
Shares in Thomas Cook (India) Ltd rose as much as 16 percent in early trade on Thursday, a day after its UK-based parent Thomas Cook Group Plc said it will look to sell its stake in the Indian travel operator.
Stocks edged higher on Wednesday as hopeful investors awaited the latest attempt by Greece to reach a deal on reforms in exchange for a new bailout.
Goldman raised its target prices for the oil and gas major to Rs 970 from Rs 960 previously.
Piramal Healthcare chairman Ajay Piramal said his company chose to invest in Vodafone for the short-term because of strong growth prospects.
'There is often only a thin line, and the interpretation of the motivation for outright OMOs could vary depending on the circumstances,' Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao told a conference.<br /><br />
17 top PSUs will invest a whopping Rs 1,40,000 crore next year
The rupee fell after opening steady as demand for dollars from oil importers weighed and traders said they would watch the stock market for clues on fund flows.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may intervene in the forward foreign exchange market, in addition to the spot market, to help manage liquidity in the banking system, a central bank source told Reuters on Friday.
Nintendo Co's shares tumbled nearly 8 percent to an eight-year low on Friday after the game maker reported a sharp drop in quarterly earnings and forecast its first ever full-year operating loss.
Netflix has regained almost as many customers as it lost following an unpopular price increase, signaling that the video subscription service is healing from its self-inflected wounds.
The government is likely to take a decision by the end of the week on whether to file a review petition on the Supreme Court verdict against a tax demand of Rs 11,000 crore in the Vodafone case.
Experts say that rising number of CDR cases does not augur well for the banking sector, as also for corporates.
HDFC Bank, India's third largest lender by assets, posted a 31.2 percent rise in December quarter profit, beating market forecasts, on lower loan loss provisions, stable asset quality and higher fee income.
Japan's Nippon Life Insurance Co plans to invest about 20 billion yen in Reliance Capital Asset Management, the fund management unit of Reliance Capital , the Nikkei newspaper reported on Thursday.
US stocks were on track to end the week with modest gains as major indexes pulled back from session lows after falling more than 1 percent on Friday.
The Reserve Bank today allowed foreign individual investors, pension funds and trusts as QFIs to directly invest in equities of up to five percent of paid up capital of the listed company.
Standard & Poor's is set to downgrade the credit ratings of several eurozone countries later on Friday, but not those of Germany and the Netherlands.
Mobius has a positive outlook on emerging economies in the long term and believes that their stock markets would be at much higher levels in the course of year.
European shares and the single currency rose on Friday after positive comments on the region's outlook from the European Central Bank .
Private sector lender DCB today reported 90 percent jump in net profit to Rs 15.6 crore for the third quarter of the 2011-12 fiscal.
The euro jumped and world stocks edged higher as strong demand at auctions for Italian and Spanish government debt on Thursday eased fears over the region's debt crisis.