NATIONAL STOCK EXCHANGE(NSE)

INTRODUCTION:
The National Stock Exchange (NSE) is a stock exchange located at Mumbai, India. It is the 9th largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization and largest in India by daily turnover and number of trades, for both equities and derivative trading. NSE has a market capitalization of around US$1.59 trillion and over 1,552 listings as of December 2010. Though a number of other exchanges exist, NSE and the Bombay Stock Exchange are the two most significant stock exchanges in India, and between them are responsible for the vast majority of share transactions. The NSE's key index is the S&P CNX Nifty, known as the NSE NIFTY (National Stock Exchange Fifty), an index of fifty major stocks weighted by market capitalisation.NSE is mutually-owned by a set of leading financial institutions, banks, insurance companies and other financial intermediaries in India but its ownership and management operate as separate entities.NSE is the third largest Stock Exchange in the world in terms of the number of trades in equities.It is the second fastest growing stock exchange in the world with a recorded growth of 16.6%.

ORIGIN:
The National Stock Exchange of India was promoted by leading Financial institutions at the behest of the Government of India, and was incorporated in November 1992 as a tax-paying company. In April 1993, it was recognized as a stock exchange under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956. NSE commenced operations in the Wholesale Debt Market (WDM) segment in June 1994. The Capital market (Equities) segment of the NSE commenced operations in November 1994, while operations in the Derivatives segment commenced in June 2000.

INNOVATION:
NSE has remained in the forefront of modernization of India's capital and financial markets, and its pioneering efforts include:


   

Being the first national, anonymous, electronic limit order book (LOB) exchange to trade securities in India. Since the success of the NSE, existent market and new market structures have followed the "NSE" model. Setting up the first clearing corporation "National Securities Clearing Corporation Ltd." in India. NSCCL was a landmark in providing innovation on all spot equity market (and later, derivatives market) trades in India. Co-promoting and setting up of National Securities Depository Limited, first depository in India [9] Setting up of S&P CNX Nifty. NSE pioneered commencement of Internet Trading in February 2000, which led to the wide popularization of the NSE in the broker community. Being the first exchange that, in 1996, proposed exchange traded derivatives, particularly on an equity index, in India. After four years of policy and regulatory debate and formulation, the NSE was permitted to start trading equity derivatives

Being the first and the only exchange to trade GOLD ETFs (exchange traded funds) in India.  NSE has also launched the NSE-CNBC-TV18 media centre in association with CNBC-TV18.  NSE.IT Limited, setup in 1999 , is a 100% subsidiary of the National Stock Exchange of India. A Vertical Specialist Enterprise, NSE.IT offers end-to-end Information Technology (IT) products, solutions and services.


MARKETS:
Currently, NSE has the following major segments of the capital market:
      

Equity Futures and Options Retail Debt Market Wholesale Debt Market Currency futures Mutual Fund Stocks Lending & Borrowing

HOURS:
NSE's normal trading sessions are conducted from 9:15 am India Time to 3:30 pm India Time on all days of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and Official Holidays declared by the Exchange (or by the Government of India) in advance.

EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS ON NSE

NSE has a number of exchange . These are typically index funds and GOLD etfs. Some of the popular etf's on NSE are.
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NIFTYBEES - ETF based on NIFTY index Nifty BEES Live quote GoldBees - ETF based on Gold prices. Tracks the price of Gold. Each unit is equalent to 1 gm of gold and bears the price of 1gm of gold. BankBees - ETF that tracks the CNX Bank Index.

MARKET PERFORMANCE:
The life high of Nifty was 6357 in 2008 and life low of 850 in 2001. The 52 weeks high of nifty is 6338 and 52 weeks low is 4783. It shows that is has given devasting returns in 10 years but also show it too volatile.

TOP 50 STOCKS OF NIFTY

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NSE Code ABB ACC AMBUJACEM AXISBANK BHARTIARTL BHEL BPCL CAIRN CIPLA DLF GAIL GRASIM HCLTECH HDFC HDFCBANK HEROHONDA HINDALCO HINDUNILVR ICICIBANK IDEA IDFC INFOSYSTCH ITC JINDALSTEL JPASSOCIAT

Company ABB Ltd. ACC Ltd. Ambuja Cements Ltd. Axis Bank Ltd. BhartiAirtel Ltd. Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. Cairn India Ltd. Cipla Ltd. DLF Ltd. GAIL (India) Ltd. Grasim Industries Ltd. HCL Technologies Ltd. Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd. HDFC Bank Ltd. Hero Honda Motors Ltd. Hindalco Industries Ltd. Hindustan Unilever Ltd. ICICI Bank Ltd. Idea Cellular Ltd. Infrastructure Development Finance Co. Ltd. Infosys Technologies Ltd. I T C Ltd. Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. Jaiprakash Associates Ltd.

Industry ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT CEMENT AND CEMENT PRODUCTS CEMENT AND CEMENT PRODUCTS BANKS TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT REFINERIES OIL EXPLORATION/PRODUCTION PHARMACEUTICALS CONSTRUCTION GAS CEMENT AND CEMENT PRODUCTS COMPUTERS SOFTWARE FINANCE HOUSING BANKS AUTOMOBILES 2 AND 3 WHEELERS ALUMINIUM DIVERSIFIED BANKS TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES FINANCIAL INSTITUTION COMPUTERS SOFTWARE CIGARETTES STEEL AND STEEL PRODUCTS DIVERSIFIED

Equity Capital (In Rs.) 423,816,750 1,877,402,020 3,046,612,130 4,032,084,690 37,969,519,800 4,895,200,000 3,615,421,240 18,966,678,160 1,605,842,714 3,394,502,566 12,684,774,000 916,820,010 1,346,219,552 2,858,553,370 4,552,365,640 399,375,000 1,913,433,052 2,181,441,805 11,137,408,530 31,000,952,090 12,960,901,040 2,867,676,165 3,795,325,160 930,781,836 4,243,681,902

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LT M&M MARUTI NTPC ONGC PNB POWERGRID RANBAXY RCOM RELCAPITAL RELIANCE RELINFRA RPOWER SAIL SBIN SIEMENS STER SUNPHARMA SUZLON TATAMOTORS TATAPOWER TATASTEEL TCS UNITECH WIPRO

Larsen & Toubro Ltd. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. NTPC Ltd. Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. Punjab National Bank Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. Reliance Communications Ltd. Reliance Capital Ltd. Reliance Industries Ltd. Reliance Infrastructure Ltd. Reliance Power Ltd. Steel Authority of India Ltd State Bank of India Siemens Ltd. Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Suzlon Energy Ltd. Tata Motors Ltd. Tata Power Co. Ltd. Tata Steel Ltd. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Unitech Ltd. Wipro Ltd.

ENGINEERING AUTOMOBILES 4 WHEELERS AUTOMOBILES 4 WHEELERS POWER OIL EXPLORATION/PRODUCTION BANKS POWER PHARMACEUTICALS TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES FINANCE REFINERIES POWER POWER STEEL AND STEEL PRODUCTS BANKS ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT METALS PHARMACEUTICALS ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AUTOMOBILES 4 WHEELERS POWER STEEL AND STEEL PRODUCTS COMPUTERS SOFTWARE CONSTRUCTION COMPUTERS SOFTWARE

1,200,545,626 2,798,212,650 1,444,550,300 82,454,644,000 21,388,725,300 3,153,025,000 42,088,412,300 2,102,086,790 10,320,134,405 2,456,328,000 32,864,135,810 2,252,702,620 23,968,000,000 41,304,005,450 6,348,802,220 674,320,400 1,680,783,722 1,035,581,955 3,113,463,486 4,798,380,830 2,371,886,650 8,873,890,170 1,957,220,996 4,777,602,094 2,935,144,164