Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a major increase in the Securities Transaction Tax (STT) on Futures and Options ...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget 2026 proposed raising STT on Futures and Options trading, a move that crashed ...

The announcement means that the Securities Transaction Tax (STT) charged on futures trading has been increased to 0.05 per ...

Tax-return errors with stock comp are painful, from accidentally taxing yourself twice to underreporting and getting a scary ...

A major data center outage halted futures and options trading early Friday, leaving investors in the dark for more than 10 hours. CME Group, a Chicago-based exchange operator, said trading had resumed ...

STT increase in Budget 2026: In her Budget speech, Sitharaman proposed to increase STT by a massive 150% on futures transactions and by 50% on options transactions. The announcement shook Dalal Street ...

Domestic equity benchmarks slid sharply after the Budget presentation, as broad-based selling across most sectors -- except IT -- pulled the indices lower.

Since STT is charged on every trade, and not on profits, traders must pay it even if they incur losses. This makes frequent ...

CME Group said it would reopen futures and options trading after an hourslong glitch at a data center prompted it to halt exchanges across asset classes. The exchange operator said Friday that its CME ...

STT on futures has been proposed to be raised to 0.05 percent from the existing 0.02 percent. Meanwhile, STT on options premium and exercise of options has been increased to 0.15 percent from the ...

SEBI has announced a major change in rules applicable to single-stock futures and options (F&O) contracts. Capital market ...