While costs to trade both options and futures will rise after the STT hike, overall trading expense in options will be half ...

Union Budget 2026 raised securities transaction tax on futures and options, increasing trading costs across India’s ...

Finance Minister raises STT on futures & options, aiming to curb speculation. Markets react with a plunge. Impact on FPIs and ...

The hike in STT is aimed squarely at high-volume derivative trading, rather than the cash equity market, and is expected to meaningfully increase transaction costs for active and short-term trading ...

Financial Regulatory Authority has granted the Egyptian Exchange its first license to trade futures contracts linked to locally listed securities, marking the formal launch of Egypt's financial ...

STT kike will be a headwind for capital-market-linked stocks. With derivatives volumes already shrinking in recent months, ...

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The Union Budget 2026 offered little for foreign investors, maintaining tax burdens and raising Securities Transaction Tax on futures and options ...

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Budget proposes to increase STT on futures from 0.02 percent to 0.05 percent. Also, the STT on options premium and on options exercise has been hiked to 0.15 percent. The existing STT on the premium ...

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Market participants fear that repeated increases could eventually hurt liquidity, especially in a segment that plays a crucial role in price discovery and risk management ...