The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, November 15, 2009

Recession pains not over for 16 of 65 sectors surveyed
Commodity companies, global trade-reliant players continue to suffer. BL Research Bureau Corporate India’ slow march to recovery may have prompted the Finance Minister to hope for an over 7 per cent growth in GDP for FY-10, but for Sesa ...

Banks aim to score big with education loans
Mumbai, Nov. 14 The economic slowdown has not deterred students from taking bank loans to finance higher ...

Space odyssey: Mr Anand S... Wait…. Signals getting stronger
Telecom sector. Indian telecom companies have suddenly gone from being the institutional investors’ blue-eyed boys to last on the shopping list. Stocks such as Bharti Airtel are languishing close to their 52-week low even as the market is ...

Cos with prime land attract interest, benign and hostile
Chalking out plans to develop surplus land. Cigarette maker Golden Tobacco may not be doing well in its business but is still in the news because its factory on 7.5 acres sits on highly priced real estate in western ...

Inflation rate rises on costlier food, fuels
First monthly report shows Wholesale Price Index doubling to 1.34%. New Delhi, Nov. 14 In an ominous start to the Government’s first monthly release of prices report, the Wholesale Price Index-based inflation in October rose to 1.34 per ...

A demand Wave for new Google tool
AUCTIONING INVITES. Mumbai, Nov. 14 Netizens with entrepreneurial instincts are capitalising on the hype surrounding Google’s new online collaboration tool — Google ...

Index Outlook: Towards a new 2009 high
The correction from the 17,493-peak that threatened to bring the eight-month old party on our bourses to an end, turned chimeral once again as bulls pulled Sensex to a position of relative safety aided by some benign government-speak, ...

Whirlpool of India: Buy

ITC: Book Profits
Investors can consider booking profits in ITC shares, as the stock valuations (30 times trailing earnings, at Rs 254) seem to have outpaced the medium-term growth prospects. Forays into businesses less profitable than the core tobacco ...

Cox and Kings (India) — IPO: Invest
Investments with a long-term perspective can be considered in the initial public offering of the global tour operator Cox and Kings (C&K). The company’s strong brand image, wide geographical reach — both within the country ...

Unity Infraprojects: Buy
Investors with a two-three-year perspective can buy the stock of Unity Infraprojects (Unity). Primarily a construction contractor, Unity’s project portfolio comprises infrastructure and civil contracts. At Rs 479, the stock trades at ...

Lloyd Electric & Engineering: Buy
Sustained growth in the production of white goods, as suggested by the consumer durables index (in the IIP) indicates that air-conditioners (ACs) are back in demand, after a slump last year. This provides a good case for investing in the stock ...

Chart Focus: Redington India (Rs 284.2): Buy
Investors with medium-term perspective can consider buying the stock of Redington India. It has been on a steady intermediate-term uptrend from its all-time low of Rs 80 recorded in late February. Moreover, the stock’s medium-term trend ...

Sundaram BNP Paribas S.M.I.L.E.: Invest
Investors with a penchant for high risk can consider buying the units of Sundaram BNP Paribas S.M.I.L.E. (Small and Medium Indian Leading Equity) based on its three-year performance. It has generated a compounded annualised return of 18.6 ...

Birla Sun Life Dynamic Bond Fund: Invest
The volatility in bond prices over the past two years has proved that debt funds require active management and a sense of timing on the part of the investor, not very different from equity funds. If interest rates are upward bound, investors ...

Query Corner: Exit from Vishal Info and Austral Coke
I have purchased NMDC at Rs 398. Please let me know the medium and long-term outlook for this ...

Honing stock-selection skills
Investing in equities may seem like a simple business, but more often than not, it is more complex than one would imagine. The moot question is that with all of the hundreds of thousands of stocks available in the market for us to choose ...

Index Strategy: Long straddle to play the volatility
Traders looking to play the volatility in the markets can consider setting a long straddle on Nifty 5,000 November series. This option spread can be set by buying Nifty 5,000 November put and call options, which are trading at Rs 91.5 and Rs ...

Stock Strategy: Weak trend seen in Tech Mahindra, JP Associates
JP Associates (Rs 231): After hitting the key resistance at Rs 245, the JP Associates stock turned ...

L&T goes green
Rooftop solar photovoltaic modules to be installed at about Rs 10 cr. For Larsen & Toubro’s ECC premises in Chennai, it will be one more milestone. The administrative building along the busy Chennai-Bangalore national highway has won ...

Weekly News Round Up(Latest Audio:Enlgish))
HDFC announced acquisition from DSP Merrill Lynch Capital of a 41 per cent equity stake in a finance service company Credila Financial Services that specialises in education loans. Through this acquisition, HDFC is entering the education ...