1. IPOs grew 30.5% in calendar year 2006 to Rs. 1,61, 769 Crores with an average of six IPOs per month.
2. The average debt per Indian based on the Central Government's Total liabilities is Rs. 22000 up from Rs. 3500 in 1990-91.
3. The Economic survey states that the current disinvestment policy is to list large profitable central public sector enterprises(CPSEs) on the domestic stock market.
Total proceeds from disinvestment amounted to Rs. 49241.29 crores as of March 2006.
4. The total cumulative Foreign Direct Investment(FDI) inflow into India between August 1991 and September 2006 stood at Rs. 1,81,566 crores ($43.29 Billion). Delhi and NCR attracted the highest amount of FDI; around 24% of the total inflows. Mumbai follows with around 21.52% of the total inflows.
5. As per IMF data, India's share in World's exports is 1% as compared to China's 7.8% in 2006. However, India saw the highest export growth rate in 2006 at 40.4% followed by Singapore(34.5%) and China(25.8%).
6. Micro and Small enterprises sector accounted for 39% of country's manufacturing output and employing 29.5 million people.
7. BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty rose by 46.7% and 39.8% respectively in 206; marked by one of the highest levels of volatility in the World.
8. Investors' wealth as reflected in market capitalization has increased significantly by over 45% during 2006.
9. The Price-to-earnings(P/E) ratio was higher at a little over 20 by December end 2006 as compared to 17-18 as of December end 2005.
10. Market capitalization of the National Stock Exchange(NSE) stood at $834 Billion as on January 12, 2007 which was 91.5% of GDP.
11. Assets Under Management(AUM) of mutual funds increased by about Rs. 1.24 lakh crores to Rs. 3.24 lakh crores in 2006.
