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MARKETS
INVESTMENTS:
UTI to be first on NSE mutual fund platform
Around 30 of the 100 schemes of UTI Mutual Fund will be listed on the new NSE Mutual Fund platform, which is set for a ...
STOCKS:
FIIs, flush with cash, turn selective
Even while flooding the market with Rs 59,000 crore between March and September this year, FIIs actually reduced their stakes in several companies. Shareholding patterns show that FIIs reduced their holdings in about one-third of the ...
INSIGHT:
Dubai World scare, a trigger for correction?
Is Dubai World's debt repayment problem merely a delayed aftershock of last year's credit crisis or a fresh tremor likely to shake up the financial system? Opinion may be divided on this; but the event is certainly reason for stock market ...
OUTLOOK:
Index Outlook: Volatility to the fore again
Those of us who have been deriding the market for its comatose moves over the past fortnight had our fill of action in the last two sessions. Stock prices that had reversed lower on the derivative expiry day began hurtling downward on Friday ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Tulip Telecom: Buy
RECOMMENDATION:
Lakshmi Vilas Bank — Rights offer: Subscribe
Investors can subscribe to the Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) rights offer which is at a 25 per cent discount to its current market price. LVB is a small-sized old private bank with two-thirds of its branches located in Tamil Nadu. Though the ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Jyothy Labs: Buy
It is FMCG makers which can deliver strong volume growth that have been outperformers in the stock market in recent months. That's why Indian players such as Marico, Dabur India and Godrej Consumer have seen a sharp expansion in their PE ...
RECOMMENDATION:
eClerx Services: Buy
Investors with a two-year horizon may buy the shares of eClerx Services, considering the improving business prospects for the segments (financial services, manufacturing) that the company caters to and the ramp-ups in business that the company ...
RECOMMENDATION:
MBL Infrastructures — IPO: Invest
Investors with a high risk appetite and a two-year perspective can subscribe to the initial public offer of MBL Infrastructures Ltd (MBL), a player in the road segment. A healthy order-book, sound clientele, backward integration and ...
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Reliance Growth Fund: Invest
Investors with a taste for risk can consider Reliance Growth Fund. The fund has comfortably outpaced its benchmark BSE 100 as well as the more broad-based BSE 500 over an ...
RECOMMENDATION:
A value buy
DSPBR World Mining Fund. DSP BlackRock World Mining Fund (DSPBR WMF), an open-ended fund of funds equity scheme, is the latest thematic fund offering from this asset ...
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Fidelity Tax Advantage: Invest
Investments can be considered in Fidelity Tax Advantage Fund, given the sound track record built over the last three years. Over a three-year period, the fund clocked compounded annualised returns of 12.8 per cent, outperforming its benchmark ...
INVESTMENTS:
Index Strategy: Consider bull call spread on Nifty
After the roller coaster ride of last week, the coming week promises to give some firm direction to the markets. Traders can consider a bull call spread on Nifty by buying Nifty Dec 5,100 call, which closed the week at Rs 92 and selling Nifty ...
INVESTMENTS:
Stock Strategy: Weak trend in L&T; consider short straddle in IFCI
Larsen & Toubro (1590): The outlook appears negative as long as the stock stays below 1,630. However, it finds support at 1,520. A drop below that level (on a closing day basis) could weaken it to 1,475 and 1,350 and even to 1,275. On ...
TAXATION:
F&O need not be speculative
I engage in day-trading in the cash market and also in the futures and options segment. For 2008-09 I have made a loss of Rs 1.70 lakh. Under which head should I show the loss in the return of income? Will this be a short-term capital loss ...
INVESTMENTS:
The short of it
It can bankrupt central banks, batter down bluechips and usually riles up regulators. Short-selling is a universally hated but useful tool to make money in the market. A strategy that can be used for anything ranging from intra-day trades to ...
STOCKS:
Query Corner: Fresh long-term uptrend in Indusind Bank
Please let me know the prospects of Voltamp and Alstom Projects. ...
INVESTMENTS:
Betting on erring businesses for ‘value'
“I'd like to buy stocks that are in the front page for the wrong reasons,” says Mr Nitin Bajaj, Fund Manager for Fidelity's new India ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Unitech: High-risk, high-return deposit
The fixed deposit scheme of Unitech is suitable for investors who can stomach some risk. The sharp downturn witnessed in the real estate sector, fund crisis faced by many players in the sector and the slow pick-up in demand for real estate ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Theme Funds: Optimal to custom-tailor portfolios
Investors like theme funds. These are funds that construct portfolios based on certain innovative or next-generation ...
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS:
Kerala expects numbers to rise
Despite assurances from the Centre and the Dubai Government that there is no room for worry, the crisis following the Dubai World seeking time to repay its dues has come as another shock to Kerala that has been witnessing a steady stream of ...
STOCKS:
Pivotals: Reliance Industries (Rs 1,048.9)
The rocky ride in the RIL counter continued last week as the stock first raced to an intra-week high of Rs 1,110 before plunging to a low of Rs 1,011. Since the stock is now trading at ex-bonus rate, all our resistances and supports need to ...
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS:
AP watching Dubai developments closely
The Andhra Pradesh Government is following the financial crisis in Dubai and see how best to protect the interest of thousands of skilled and semi-skilled workers employed in ...
INVESTMENTS:
How to choose ‘international' funds
I am holding the following mutual funds: Birla Sunlife International Equity Plan A. ICICI Pru Indo Asia Equity, Tata Indo Global Infrastructure. All these funds were bought during their NFOs in October/November 2007.Kindly advice if I ...
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS:
PNB has no exposure in Dubai World
Punjab National Bank (PNB) has said that it does not have any exposure in the ...
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS:
Correction
In the report ‘DP World crisis unlikely to hit Nagarjuna Const, 3i Info—Noble sees indirect impact on Indian cos' ( Business Line, November 27), the crisis reference should be with regard to Dubai World and not DP World, ...
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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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