The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Principal MF plans bank index fund
The proposed Principal PNB Banking Index Fund, which by definition will invest in securities in the same proportion that constitute the underlying index, will try to provide returns that closely follow the total returns delivered by the concerned ... More

STOCKS

IVRCL board okays stock split
IVRCL Infrastructures and Projects Ltd has informed the stock exchanges that its board of directors, by a circular resolution, has resolved to subdivide every share of Rs 10 each to five shares of Rs 2 each subject to approval of the shareholders ... More

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

Bull domination
BULL dominated over Monday's trading activity. The sentiment reading of the tradable counters changed to bullish. Bear pressure on Tuesday is likely to change the sentiment reading in their favour. On the contrary, the bullish sentiment is likely ... More

STOCK MARKETS

Vashisti Detergent: Interest ahead of merger
VASHISTI Detergent on Monday witnessed surge in value and volume as investors rushed to buy the stock ahead of the company's merger with Hindusthan Lever. The stock closed up 3.59 per cent at Rs 18.75, the day's high on the BSE with a traded ... More

What's ahead for mid-caps now
AS the Sensex hit the 10,000-mark, the CNX Midcap index, too, rallied to close the day at 4,347.85, up 60.40 points or 1.41 per cent. However, the Midcap index clearly seems to have outperformed the Sensex. Experts give their views on this ... More

FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS

Fidelity picks up 9% stake in MCX
FIDELITY International, a leading foreign institutional investor, has picked up 9 per cent stake in Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX) for $49 million (about Rs 216 crore). This is the first foreign investment in an Indian commodity ... More

EVENTS

Market scales 10k tower — Sensex up 238 pts; Nifty gains 2 pc
AFTER a week spent testing the heights, the BSE Sensex finally crossed the 10,000-point mark on Monday before retreating to close in the more familiar terrain of 9,980.42 points, up 237.84 from the previous day's close. The new milestone, ... More

Sensex 100 & 10,000: A dramatic story
SENSEX 10,000 is obviously a far cry from Sensex 100 in terms of numbers. The most interesting aspect is, however, the changes in the basket of Sensex stocks (refer table 1). Stocks such as Asian Cables, Scindia Steamship, Bombay Burmah, Zenith ... More

The journey so far...
MONDAY invariably appears to have something special for the stock markets. Usually it is a steep fall earning the market the sobriquet, `Black Monday'. But this time around, Monday turned out to be positive for the market sentiment with the ... More

Stocks that missed the bus
MISSED the entire stock market rally from Sensex 5,000 to 10,000 because you were wary of valuations? Maybe you needn't despair; for there are still a large number of stocks that haven't kept up with the markets' furious pace over the past two ... More

Sensex 10,000: What they say
Psychologically, 10,000 is a big landmark in the history of the Indian stock markets but the fundamentals of the markets are still strong. With current P/E levels hovering around the 18-19 levels and next year earnings around 16, there is ... More

OUTLOOK

Market participants advise caution over Sensex surge — Ambani brothers row, crude oil prices `ignored'
AS the Sensex made a historic top today, stock market operators reacted cautiously as to where the market is headed in the near term, particularly in view of the fact that the market has `ignored' completely some of the negative developments ... More

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