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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday said that countries, including India, have learnt their lessons from the previous taper tantrum, while assuring that the government and the RBI were keeping close tabs on situation.

The deal value will be closer to the $2.5 billion valuation VFS Global and its investors had sought when they launched a sale and a parallel IPO process in 2019. That move was aborted due to the pandemic.

Inter Scheme Transfer trades are excluded from the revised framework, Sebi said in a circular. The new norms will come into effect from December 1, 2021.

The issue will be for consideration other than cash, at par, for an aggregate value not exceeding Rs 1,000 crore on a private placement basis.

In London business, Macrotech Developers achieved a sales booking of Rs 1,450 crore in the September quarter.

In another transaction, Chhattisgarh Investments bought 1.8 million shares of Mercator at Rs. 1.7 apiece through a bulk deal on the NSE.

The markets have once again added massive shorts in the system. Wednesday’s decline has added fresh shorts; this is evident from the Nifty futures data. The October series of Nifty futures have added over 7.72 lakh shares or 6.40 per cent net Open Interest.

The amount of the GSAP for Q3 could be reduced with the provision that it could be revised up when required. Moreover, the RBI could continue to sterilise its GSAP purchases going forward to keep the impact of its yield management tools liquidity neutral.

In September, the regulator had notified corporate governance rules for listed entities which have listed their debt securities.

The Nasdaq Composite dropped 144.38 points, or 1.00 per cent, to 14,289.45 at the opening bell.