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MARKETS
INVESTMENTS:
Retail investors make Rs 1.9-lakh cr in market rally
Promoters walk away with Rs 13 lakh crore. BL Research Bureau Stock price gains have generated crores of rupees in notional wealth for investors holding on to equities so far this year. However, only a small slice of this may have accrued to ...
STOCKS:
Euphoria is short-lived
Qualified Institutional Placements. Qualified Institutional Placements (QIPs) have created a buzz in the stock market in recent months, with companies raising QIP funds seeing a surge in stock prices in the run-up to such offers, foreign ...
OUTLOOK:
Index Outlook: Market keeps everyone guessing
Market was at its provoking best last week. It rallied higher in the early part of the week, but not enough to make the bulls perk up. Then it declined, but so slightly that the bears were left unsatisfied as well. The close was on a very ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Tata Elxsi: Buy
RECOMMENDATION:
Neyveli Lignite Corp: Book Profits
Investors can consider booking partial profits in the Neyveli Lignite Corporation stock as valuations have run ahead of fundamentals, driven by divestment ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Phillips Carbon Black: Buy
The passenger car industry is on a strong growth path. Although commercial vehicles have posted a more tentative recovery, a near 5 per cent year-to-date growth in domestic sales from the steep declines last year offers hope of an early ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Hotel Leelaventure: Hold
Shareholders can retain their exposure to the stock of Hotel Leelaventure, which owns and operates a chain of luxury hotels across the ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Chart Focus: United Sprits (Rs 1,195.2): Buy
Investors with medium-term perspective can consider buying the stock of United Sprits. Following steady decline from Rs 2,160 to Rs 425 over a year, the stock reversed from the long-term support range between Rs 400-425.The stock has been on ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Kotak Opportunities Fund: Invest
Investors can buy the units of Kotak Opportunities fund considering its long-term performance. Over a five-year period the fund clocked an annualised return of 30 per cent and outpaced its benchmark S&P CNX500 by nine percentage points ...
STOCKS:
Stocks Strategy: Consider short straddle in Tata Teleservices
Tata Teleservices Maharashtra (Rs 25.9): The stock has been in a downtrend for quite sometime. It faces a strong resistance at Rs 33 and so as long as it stays below that level, the weak trend is likely to persist. However, it ...
INVESTMENTS:
Index Strategy: Bull spread for high-risk traders
The coming week being the derivative expiry week promises to showcase a lot of volatility. So even though the overall bias is positive, traders may have to brace themselves for wild swings in option premiums. A risky proposition and hence ...
RECOMMENDATION:
ICICI Pru Balanced Fund: Sell
Investors can consider selling their holdings in ICICI Pru Balanced Fund (ICICI Balanced) considering that its performance has lagged its benchmark as well as peers consistently. The fund trailed its benchmark Crisil Balanced Fund Index over ...
REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS:
New SME guidelines: Compromising on liquidity
The Securities and Exchanges Board of India (SEBI) recently laid down guidelines for the listing and trading of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). These guidelines have made it easier and less expensive for such companies to raise equity. But ...
STOCKS:
Query Corner: Bharti Airtel remains in structural uptrend
I have bought shares of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) at Rs 80. Should I hold for the long-term or exit at current level or buy ...
INVESTMENTS:
Pay agent fee in instalments
Committee recommendations vs insurance sector. The Swarup committee recommendations for the insurance industry – calling for the abolition of selling commissions borne by policyholders – have made the players unhappy. The regulator, ...
INVESTMENTS:
Keynes’ thoughts on investing
John Maynard Keynes – the name rings a bell for several reasons, an economist who proposed government spending to fight slowdowns and the one who predicted the rise of Germany under the Third Reich, due to the harsh reparation terms for ...
STOCKS:
Pivotals: Reliance Industries (Rs 2,125.1)
It was a bumpy ride for investors on the Reliance counter as the stock first rose to Rs 2,163 then plunged to a low of Rs 2,051 only to recoup all the losses in the second part of Friday’s session to close the week on a flat note. The ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Funds for senior citizens
We are senior citizens. We do not need any income from mutual funds for our day-to-day living. We are conservative investors with average risk taking ability and with an expectation of minimum 10-12 per cent yearly tax free ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Focus on intrinsic value
Fidelity India Value Fund. Funds that adhere to “value investing” aren’t all that common in the Indian context, with just a handful of the over 200 diversified equity funds positioned as value-oriented funds. Fidelity Mutual ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
How many funds should you hold?
Investors like to hold a number of mutual funds in their portfolios in the name of diversification. A typical portfolio would, hence, have exposure to several diversified funds, style and sector funds. But as one reader asked us: Is ...
NEW FUND OFFER:
Update
DSP BlackRock Mutual Fund has launched DSP BlackRock World Mining Fund, an open-ended equity scheme. The fund’s objective to seek capital appreciation by investing predominantly in the units of BlackRock Global Funds ...
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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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