MARKETS
INVESTMENTS:
Smart domestic investors see value in falling market: Bhave
‘No evidence of any market manipulation so far’. New Delhi, Nov. 22 “If you think that Indian investors don’t have money or are running away from the market (capital market), think again”, said the SEBI Chairman, ...
FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS:
India-specific hedge funds fare the worst
BL Research Bureau It is no secret that the stock market decline in October was spurred by hedge funds selling to meet redemption ...
TAXATION:
Long and short of capital gains tax
As the old adage goes, ‘Nothing is certain but death and taxes’. If stock market investing has caught your fancy, here too, you cannot avoid the taxman. Whether you are busy making money or burning your fingers out in the markets, ...
INVESTMENTS:
Pension fund managers shun market
Invest less than 1% of New Pension Scheme corpus in equities. Mumbai, Nov. 22 The fund managers of the New Pension Scheme for government employees appear to be prudent as they invested only less than one per cent of their total corpus in the ...
OUTLOOK:
Index Outlook
The incessant pounding of negative tidings from overseas pushed the Sensex back towards the 8000-mark last week. There are multiple swords hanging over the market’s neck: Detroit automakers tottering on the verge of bankruptcy, the ...
RECOMMENDATION:
UTI Mahila Unit Scheme: Invest
UTI Mahila Unit Scheme is a good investment option for women investors looking for a debt-oriented fund as part of their core portfolio. The fund’s consistent performance across market cycles and superior return (in the debt category) ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Welspun Gujarat Stahl Rohren: Buy
Fresh investments with a two-three year perspective can be made in the stock of leading steel pipe manufacturer Welspun Gujarat Stahl Rohren ...
RECOMMENDATION:
NTPC: Buy
Investors looking for a defensive play in the current market can buy the stock of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), trading at Rs 150 (price earnings multiple of 13). The stock has managed the market storm relatively better than ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Indraprastha Gas: Buy
Not too many stocks have held their ground in the meltdown of the last three months. Indraprastha Gas Ltd. (IGL) is one of them. Compared to the 43 per cent erosion in the Sensex since mid-August, the IGL stock has shed just 7 per cent with ...
RECOMMENDATION:
MindTree: Buy
Investments with a one-two year perspective can be considered in the shares of MindTree, considering its relatively strong business positioning among mid-tier IT companies and reasonable ...
FINANCIAL MARKETS:
Focus on asset allocation
I am 36, working in a gulf country. My wife is a homemaker, aged 30. I have two daughters, aged five and three. I plan to retire on achieving my financial goals (by 2025). I started investing in mutual funds from 2004 and my risk appetite ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Who shouldn’t invest in stocks
Stock market investing has turned out to be much more risky than most of us thought. The bull market that lasted till end-2007 had its moorings in strong earnings growth from India ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Magnum Emerging Businesses: Switch
Investors can consider exiting Magnum Emerging Businesses (MEB) Fund. The fund has consistently underperformed its benchmark BSE 500 during rallies as well as downturns such as the present one. Its aggressive positioning in the mid- and ...
STOCKS:
Query Corner: What the charts say
Please advise whether I can purchase Graphite India and Jyoti Structure at current ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Infosys
Infosys declined below the near-term support at Rs 1,180 to the intra-week trough at Rs 1,100. As explained earlier, the stock has key long-term support at Rs 1,100 and a sustainable trough can be formed here. The sideways move between Rs ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Tata Steel
Tata Steel recorded an intra-week trough at Rs 150 as indicated in this column last week. A rebound is possible from these levels that can take the stock higher towards Rs 190 or Rs 212. If the stock fails to surpass the first resistance, ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Maruti Suzuki
MUL tested the support at Rs 475 fleetingly on Thursday before reversing upward. But the short-term trend in the stock continues to be down. Immediate resistances in the week ahead would be at Rs 532 and then Rs 572. Reversal from either of ...
STOCK MARKETS:
SBI
The 9 per cent surge in SBI in the second half of the trading session on Friday has made the short-term outlook positive for the ...
STOCK MARKETS:
ONGC
ONGC moved lower as indicated in this column last week. But the decline halted near the support at Rs 600. The stock has key long-term supports at Rs 620 and below that at Rs 550. Though the lower support was tested on October 27, the ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Reliance Ind
Reliance Industries moved lower in line with our expectation towards the intra-week trough at Rs ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Performance in a rally: Variations among funds
It has been a very volatile market for the past seven weeks. Certain funds recorded a tremendous recovery during the relief rally, but have fallen with a thud over the last 10 days. Although these are very short-term trends, they offer clues ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Nifty to remain volatile
Despite a sharp recovery on Friday, the Nifty November future closed a good 3.6 per cent lower over its previous week’s close of 2829 ...
COMMENTARY:
Market ends negative
The stock market once again ended the week on a negative note, losing five per cent and closed at 8915 points. Following the record slump in US consumer prices, the Sensex plummeted to November 2005 levels during the week, on cues of ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Tech School: Exhaustion gaps
The third and final type of gap is exhaustion gap. From the name one can understand that this gap has something to do with the final stages, for that is when exhaustion sets in. Exhaustion gaps are the gaps which occur at the end of a strong up ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Fund Talk
I am a retired professional aged 59 years. My investments in mutual funds are given below. I have invested between Rs 15,000 and Rs 20,000 in each of the funds. Due to the present volatile market conditions most of the investments in MF are ...
NEW FUND OFFER:
Fund Update
Dutch financial services major Aegon and Religare Enterprises have decided to call off their joint venture. The AMC has got approval for setting up the mutual fund business recently from SEBI. Religare Aegon has recently ...
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