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MARKETS
REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS:
SEBI, Serious Fraud Office teams don’t get to question Rajus
Hyderabad, Jan. 10 Investigating teams of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) have not been able to interrogate Mr B. Ramalinga Raju, former Chairman of Satyam Computer Services and ...
OUTLOOK:
Index Outlook
Just when it appeared as if the Sensex would slip past the 10,500 mark, it was yanked back by the misdoings of Mr Ramalinga Raju. Bears exploited the situation to the hilt, bludgeoning stocks across sectors, sometimes for the most absurd ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Kotak 30: Invest through SIP
Investors with a two-three-year time horizon can consider adding Kotak 30 to their ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Nestle India: Buy
The Nestle India stock is a good investment option for those who would like to own a defensive stock in volatile markets. Nestle’s high profitability and return ratios and the healthy cash flows make it a likely beneficiary from ...
RECOMMENDATION:
REC: Buy
Investors with a low-risk appetite can consider taking exposures in the State-owned Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) stock as it is trading at attractive valuations. High demand for funds on the back of huge capacity-addition targets, ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Koutons Retail (India): Hold
In a world of tightening consumer expenditure, value retailers are placed better than their premium counterparts. In the stock markets, Koutons Retail, a value apparel retailer, has fared relatively better than its peers, losing just about ...
STOCKS:
Query Corner: What the charts say
Cairn India (Rs 167.70): In our previous review of Cairn India last September, we had expected the stock to recover from the long-term support-band between Rs 180 and Rs ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Canara Robeco Equity Diversified: Hold
Unit holders can retain their holdings in Canara Robeco Equity Diversified Fund based on the long term performance. The fund, having trailed the category average over its initial years, has managed to improve its performance over the past ...
INVESTMENTS:
‘Logical to grow via bancassurance’
ULIP products are a lot more transparent about their investments than traditional products, says Mr T.R. Ramachandran, CEO and MD, Aviva Life Insurance. Taking off after a 19-year stint with Citibank, Mr ...
STOCKS:
Reliance Ind
RIL rose to an intra-week high of Rs 1,384 before recording the giant engulfing candle in the weekly chart. The key near-term support at Rs 1,200 was breached as the stock declined to Rs 1,092 on Friday. Near-term resistance would be at Rs ...
STOCKS:
Tata Steel
Tata Steel could not move past our first target at Rs 258 last week. But the reversal from this peak has been relatively mild. The short-term trend can continue to be classified as sideways. A conclusive close below Rs 200 is needed to turn ...
STOCKS:
SBI
State Bank of India reversed lower from our first target at Rs 1,380 and declined to the stop-loss level at Rs 1,190 indicated last week. The presence of both the 50 and 200-day moving averages in the zone between Rs 1,200 and Rs 1,250 makes ...
STOCKS:
ONGC
ONGC reversed lower from Rs 734 last week with an evening star pattern in the daily candlestick chart. Failure to move past the resistance at Rs 740 reaffirms the negative medium-term view for the chart. Resumption of the down move from the ...
STOCKS:
Infosys
Infosys is one of the rare few stocks among the pivotals that have closed with a positive weekly close. The stock gained over 5 per cent last week to form a morning star pattern in the weekly candlestick ...
STOCKS:
Maruti Suzuki
MUL was untouched by the mayhem in the markets last week; recording a weekly gain of over 7 per ...
RECOMMENDATION:
TNPF scheme: An attractive debt option
Even as 2008 turned out to be a sore year for equity investors, debt offered solace to a great extent, with attractive interest rates and yields. However, the falling interest rates in 2009 suggests that attractive debt options could be ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Mid-cap funds: Huge value erosion
The year 2008 was bad for equity as an asset class. Irrespective of its market cap and fundamentals, almost every stock listed on the bourses bore the brunt of the bear onslaught (except perhaps, consumer non-durables). Growth sectors ...
STOCKS:
NYSE to resume Satyam trading
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced on Saturday that trading in Satyam’s ADRs may resume on Monday (January 12). However, it also said it can suspend trading in a security if it believes that continued dealing in that particular ...
STOCK MARKETS:
SIP moderate fear; set-up equity tilts
Credit defaults, bankruptcies and now corporate governance - or the lack of it - have all injected extreme fear into the market. Small wonder then that more investors are now inclined towards bond funds than ever before. Such an ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Downtrend may continue for Nifty futures
Despite a promising start in the New Year, the stock markets have now tumbled back, wiping away the entire gains of 2009, following the ‘Satyam ...
COMMENTARY:
Satyam fiasco brings back the bears
The first full-week trading in New Year 2009 witnessed heavy selling pressure in the Sensex, following gains made earlier in the week. The benchmark index Sensex started the week on a positive note by crossing the psychological level of 10000 ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Tech School
Most technical analysts would be familiar with the widely-used Japanese candlesticks charts. But the wise-men of ancient Japanese devised at least two more methods of chart construction that are just as useful in gauging the trend and ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Fund Talk
From the tables you published last week, I saw that some gilt funds had given a return of as much as 40 per cent in 2008. Can I switch from equity funds into gilt funds to recoup some of the losses I made last ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Tulip Telecom: Buy
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Update
JM Financial Mutual Fund has revised the exit load structure under JM Income Fund. The scheme will charge an exit load of one per cent for amounts less than or equal to Rs one crore, if redeemed within 365 days from the date ...
Columnists:
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Harish Bijoor
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Ramanujam Sridhar
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S Ramesh Kumar
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Radhika Chada
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