MARKETS
STOCK MARKETS:
Midcaps: From mania to phobia?
Not so long ago, a mid-cap bias in your equity portfolio was seen as a sure-fire way to outperform the stock market. This year’s long-drawn out correction has, however, changed that. Mid-cap stocks have suffered a greater blow than ...
OUTLOOK:
Index Outlook
Vigorous fire-fighting is on across the globe with central banks slashing interest rates blindly and stimulus packages being doled out all around in a bid to reduce the impact of recession. If reaction of equity markets in respective countries ...
RECOMMENDATION:
ICICI Prudential Gilt Fund: Invest
With inflation sliding more quickly than expected and interest rates declining across the world, the pressure continues to build on Indian policymakers to cut rates ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Titan Industries: Hold
The Titan Industries stock has remained fairly resilient to the recent meltdown thanks to the company’s improving financial performance and strong focus on ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Britannia Industries: Buy
For investors seeking a defensive option in choppy markets, the stock of Britannia Industries is an attractive buy. With a product basket comprising biscuits, bakery and dairy products and brands straddling several price points, ...
RECOMMENDATION:
UTV Software Communications: Buy
Investors can stay invested in UTV Software Communications, an integrated entertainment company that spans movie production, content, airtime sales and gaming, considering the stock’s reasonable valuation levels and bright ...
RECOMMENDATION:
E.I.D Parry (India): Buy
Sugar appears to be one of the few sectors that offers potential for strong earnings growth combined with good visibility over the next two years, as the economy enters a lean phase. With the sugar cycle likely to turn from a surplus to ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Query Corner: What the charts say
I have shares of Murudeshwar Ceramics purchased at Rs 80 per share. What are the short and long-term prospects of this ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Infosys
It was a disappointing show by Infosys last week and the stock was unable to move beyond Rs 1,300; tumbling to Rs 1,121 instead. Immediate support for the stock is at Rs 1,100 and below at Rs 1,050. But as we have been reiterating, the stock ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Maruti Suzuki
MUL recorded a very sharp reversal in the early part of last week that took it slightly below the near-term support at Rs ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Tata Steel
There was a strong reversal from the trough at Rs 146 last week and contrary to our expectation, the stock moved higher to the peak at Rs ...
STOCK MARKETS:
SBI
State Bank of India moved in line with our expectation, sliding down to an intra-week trough at Rs 995 and gaining more than 20 per cent from ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Reliance
RIL remained in the range between Rs 1,050 and Rs 1,200, within which it was confined the previous week as well. The short-term trend in the stock is indeterminate and it would be best to wait for a breakout beyond either boundary ...
STOCK MARKETS:
ONGC
The positive short-term trend was nullified by the sharp decline recorded last Tuesday. The stock could move lower to Rs 621 or Rs 598 in the near term. But the key long-term support band between Rs 570 and Rs 600 will continue to attract ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Prominent bulk deals on NSE and BSE
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STOCKS:
Mid-cap Minutes
In terms of price to earnings multiple, Sensex has always enjoyed a premium over the Midcap index. That, however, was not the case in April-May 2006 and Dec-Jan 2008, when the mid-cap valuations overtook or, at the ...
INVESTMENTS:
Tata AIG unveils unit-linked plan
Tata AIG Life Insurance has launched a unit-linked plan called ‘InvestAssure Optima’. The plan offers a balance of guaranteed additions and high allocation rates, while providing comprehensive insurance protection, a press release ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Set a Bull Call next week
Option traders can consider setting a Bull Call spread on Nifty for the coming week. This can be done by buying a call option on Nifty while simultaneously selling another Nifty call at a higher strike price. We suggest traders to set this ...
INVESTMENTS:
IRDA seeks investment details from insurers
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) has asked all insurance companies to furnish the details of investments made by them during the last ...
INVESTMENTS:
‘ULIPs not for short-term or active investors’
Their costs are high and they aren’t as transparent as mutual funds. Those are the charges often levelled against unit- linked insurance plans, the popular market-linked products marketed by insurance companies. But Mr V. Srinivasan, CFO ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
‘In handling the crisis, fund managers are not solely to blame’
Mr D. K. Aggarwal, a chartered accountant, CMD of SMC Comtrade and MD of SMC Wealth Management Services shares his views on asset allocation and equity investing in the present market conditions. He also talks of ...
REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS:
Exchange-traded interval fund: Lowering close-end discount, open-end cash drag
Recent reports suggest that SEBI is revising rules to make it mandatory for all close-end funds to list on the stock ...
OUTLOOK:
Why timing may make you miss the bus
We are currently in a market environment that has been variously described as “unprecedented and “extreme”. There has been sufficient volatility in the market to make even a seasoned investor pause. Equity ...
FINANCIAL SERVICES:
It pays to ask the right questions
Can you imagine someone selling a financial product that has actually been withdrawn from market? Read on, if you want to avoid being taken for a ‘financial’ ride. A month ago, I received a call from a person identifying ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Nifty future likely to stage a recovery
The NSE Nifty November future declined 2.18 per cent to end last week at 2711.1 against its previous week’s close of 2771.6. It also surrendered its premium in the process and closed at a discount of about three points over ...
COMMENTARY:
Weak global cues subdue market sentiments
Last week was that of mixed feelings for stock market investors. Even as the ‘heads began rolling’ in the South Block, the reason much-touted for the brief surge in the market earlier last week, the euphoria soon fizzled out ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Fund Talk
I am 27 years old. I have invested in the following mutual funds. SBI One India Rs 15,000, SBI Magnum Contra Rs10,000, Reliance Growth Rs 10,000, Fidelity International Opportunities Rs.10,000, Tata Indo Global Rs 10,000, DBS ...
NEW FUND OFFER:
Update
SEBI has announced that investors would no longer be allowed early exit from close ended mutual funds and have asked the fund houses to list the close ended funds on the stock ...
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