A financial market is a market in which people and entities

can trade financial securities, commodities, and other fungible items of value at
lowtransaction costs and at prices that reflect supply and demand. Securities
include stocks and bonds, and commodities include precious metals or agricultural
goods.

Global Financial Market
A global financial market is a mechanism that allows people to easily buy &
sell (trade) financial securities (such as stocks & bonds), commodities (such as
precious metals or agricultural goods) at international level.

Departments of Global Financial Market







Capital markets which consist of:
Stock markets, which provide financing through the issuance of shares
or common stock.
Bond markets, which provide financing through the issuance
of bonds.
Commodity markets, which facilitate the trading of commodities.
Money markets, which provide short term debt financing and investment.
Derivatives markets, which provide instruments for the management
of financial risk.
Insurance markets, which facilitate the redistribution of various risks.
Foreign exchange markets, which facilitate the trading of foreign exchange.














Infosys is an Indian multinational corporation that provides business
consulting,information technology, software engineering and outsourcing services.
It is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.
[4]
Infosys is the third-largest India-
based IT services company by 2014 revenues,
[5]
and the fifth largest employer
of H-1B visa professionals in the United States in FY 2013.
[6]
On 31 March 2014,
its market capitalisation was 188,510 crores, making it India's fifth largest publicly
traded company.
Infosys was co-founded in 1981 by N. R. Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N.
S. Raghavan, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh, Venugopal and Ashok
Arora after they resigned from Patni Computer Systems.
The company was incorporated as "Infosys Consultants Pvt Ltd." with a capital of
Rs. 10,000 (roughly $250) in Model Colony, Pune as the registered office and
signed its first client, Data Basics Corporation, in New York.
In 1983, the company's corporate headquarters was relocated to Bangalore.

Listings
Infosys made an initial public offer (IPO) in February 1993 with an offer price of
Rs. 98 per share against book value of Rs. 10 per share.
In October 1994, it made a private placement of 5,50,000 shares at Rs. 450 each
against book value of Rs. 10 per share to Foreign Institutional
Investors (FIIs), Financial Institutions(FIs) and Corporates.
The share price surged to Rs. 8,100 by 1999 making it the costliest share on the
market at the time. At that time, Infosys was among the 20 biggest companies.
The credit rating of the company is A- (given by Standard & Poor's on 13-Dec-
2013).

Locations: Infosys has a global presence with 72 offices and 94 development
centers in the United States, India, China, Australia, Japan, Middle East, and
Europe.
Services
It provides software development, maintenance and independent validation
services to companies in banking, finance, insurance, manufacturing and other
domains.
One of its known products is Finacle which is a universal banking solution with
various modules for retail and corporate banking.

Acquisitions
In December 2003, Infosys had acquired Australia-based IT service provider
Expert Information Services for $23 million.
In December 2009, Infosys BPO acquired Atlanta-based McCamish Systems for
about $38 million.
In January 2012, Infosys BPO acquired Australia-based Portland Group, provider
of strategic sourcing and category management services, for about AUD 37
million.
In September 2012, Infosys acquired Switzerland-based Lodestone Management
Consultants for about $345 million.









Current Shareholding
Shareholders (as on 31-Mar-2014) Shareholding
[2]

Promoters group 15.94%
Foreign Institutional Investors (FII)
42.10%
ADR 16.10%
Individual shareholders 09.95%
Banks, Financial Institutions and Insurance Companies 09.08%
Mutual Funds 04.58%
Others 02.25%
Total 100.00%








TATA MOTORS

Tata Motors Limited (formerly TELCO, short for Tata Engineering and
Locomotive Company) is an Indian multinational automotive manufacturing
company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India and a subsidiary of
the Tata Group. Its products include passenger cars, trucks, vans, coaches, buses,
construction equipment and military vehicles. It is the world's seventeenth-largest
motor vehicle manufacturing company, fourth-largest truck manufacturer and
second-largest bus manufacturer by volume.
Tata Motors has auto manufacturing and assembly plants
in Jamshedpur, Pantnagar, Lucknow, Sanand, Dharwad and Pune in India, as well
as in Argentina, South Africa, Thailand and the United Kingdom.
Founded in 1945 as a manufacturer of locomotives, the company manufactured its
first commercial vehicle in 1954 in a collaboration with Daimler-Benz AG, which
ended in 1969. Tata Motors entered the passenger vehicle market in 1991 with the
launch of the Tata Sierra, becoming the first Indian manufacturer to achieve the
capability of developing a competitive automobile.
In 1998, Tata launched the first fully indigenous Indian passenger car, the Indica,
and in 2008 launched the Tata Nano, the world's most affordable car. Tata Motors
acquired the South Korean truck manufacturer Daewoo Commercial Vehicles
Company in 2004 and purchased Jaguar Land Rover from Ford in 2008.
Tata Motors is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, where it is a constituent of
the BSE SENSEX index, the National Stock Exchange of India and the New York
Stock Exchange.
Tata Motors' principal subsidiaries include the British premium car maker Jaguar
Land Rover (the maker of Jaguar, Land Rover and Range Rover cars) and the
South Korean commercial vehicle manufactuer Tata Daewoo. Tata Motors has a
bus manufacturing joint venture with Marcopolo S.A. (Tata Marcopolo), a
construction equipment manufacturing joint venture with Hitachi (Tata Hitachi
Construction Machinery), and a joint venture with Fiat which manufactures
automotive components and Fiat and Tata branded vehicles.
ONGC
ONGC was founded on 14 August 1956 by Government of India, which currently
holds a 69.23% equity stake. Key people:- D.K. Sarraf (Chairman and Managing
Director of ONGC). Owner is Government of India.
Subsidiaries
ONGC Videsh:-
ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) is the international arm of ONGC. It was started
on 15 June 1989. It currently has 14 projects across 16 countries. ONGC holds
100% stake in ONGC Videsh Limited.
Presence of ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) in Latin America:
Brazil
Colombia
Cuba
Venezuela
Presence of ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) in CIS & Far-East;
Vietnam
Myanmar
Russia
Kazakhstan
Presence of ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) in Africa;
Libya
Nigeria
Sudan & South Sudan
Mozambique
Presence of ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) in Middle East;
Iraq
Syria
Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited:


Joint Ventures
ONGC Tripura Power Company Ltd (OTPC) is a joint venture which was formed
in September 2008 between ONGC, Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services
Limited and theGovernment of Tripura. It is developing a 726.6 MW thermal
power generation project at Palatana in Tripura which will supply electricity to the
power deficit areas of the north eastern states of the country.
Product
Revenue
(billion)
Crude Oil 562.38
Gas 168.88
LPG 31.48
Naptha 76.80
C2-C3 13.44
SKO 3.69
Others 1.59
Adjustments - 32.74
Total 825.52

Ranbaxy Laboratories
Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (BSE: 500359) is an Indian
multinational pharmaceutical company that was incorporated in India in 1961. The
company went public in 1973 and Japanese pharmaceutical company Daiichi
Sankyo acquired a controlling share in 2008. In 2014, Sun Pharma acquired the
entire 63.4% share of Ranbaxy making the conglomerate worlds fifth largest
specialty generic pharma company. Ranbaxy exports its products to 125 countries
with ground operations in 43 and manufacturing facilities in eight countries.
Ranbaxy was started by Ranbir Singh and Gurbax Singh in 1937 as a distributor
for a Japanese company Shionogi. The name Ranbaxy is a portmanteau of the
names of its first owners Ranbir and Gurbax. Bhai Mohan Singh bought the
company in 1952 from his cousins Ranbir and Gurbax. After Bhai Mohan Singh's
son Parvinder Singh joined the company in 1967, the company saw an increase in
scale.

Acquisition

In June 2008, Daiichi-Sankyo acquired a 34.8% stake in Ranbaxy, for a value $2.4
billion. In November 2008, Daiichi-Sankyo completed the takeover of the
company from the founding Singh family in a deal worth $4.6 billion by acquiring
a 63.92% stake in Ranbaxy. Ranbaxy's Malvinder Singh remained as CEO after the
transaction.
On 7 April 2014 India based Sun Pharmaceutical and Japan based Daiichi Sankyo
jointly announced the sale of entire 63.4% share from Daiichi Sankyo to Sun
Pharma in a $4 billion all share deal. Under these agreements, shareholders of
Ranbaxy, will receive 0.8 share of Sun Pharmaceutical for each share of
Ranbaxy. After this acquisition, the partnerDaiichi-Sankyo will hold a stake of 9%
in Sun Pharmaceutical. The combination of Sun Pharma and Ranbaxy creates the
fifth-largest specialty generics company in the world and the largest
pharmaceutical company in India.

HCL
HCL Technologies Limited is a global IT services company headquartered
in Noida, India. It offers services including software consulting, enterprise
transformation, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services,
and business process outsourcing (BPO). It was founded in 1991. The founders
were Arjun Malhotra and Shiv Nadar.
HCL has offices in 31 countries to provide services across industry verticals,
including aerospace & defense, energy & utilities, independent software vendors,
manufacturing, professional services, servers & storage, automotive, financial
services, industrial manufacturing, media & entertainment, retail & consumer,
telecom, consumer electronics, government, life sciences & healthcare, medical
devices, semiconductors, and travel, transportation & logistics.

Acquisitions
Company acquired Country Date
CapitalStream Inc U.S.A. 20-Feb-08
Liberata Financial Services United Kingdom

Control Point Solutions, Inc. U.S.A. 25-Aug-08
AXON Group Plc United Kingdom 15-Dec-08
UCS Groups Enterprise Solutions SAP practice South Africa 16-Jul-09



Operations
HCL has offices in 31 countries across the globe.
Australia, China, HongKong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, New
Zealand,Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, UAE and Qatar are the places
where offices are located.
In Europe, HCL has offices in Belgium, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway,Poland
, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.
In the Americas, HCL has offices in Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the USA.