MARKETS
INVESTMENTS:
With stocks, a five-year wait may not always pay
Not much can go wrong with your stock market investments if you are a ‘long-term’ investor, willing to stay put for five years. That is the investment wisdom often used to hard-sell stocks, equity funds or market-linked ...
OUTLOOK:
Index Outlook
Even as the battle raged on to free hostages from multiple locations in Mumbai, Indian stock markets functioned with remarkable calm, sending the message that such inhuman acts cannot browbeat financial markets. Sensex ended 66 points higher ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Axis Bank: Buy
RECOMMENDATION:
ABB: Sell
Investors can consider reducing exposure to the stock of ABB on rallies linked to the broad markets. Disappointing revenue growth for three consecutive quarters, pressure on profit margins, decline in revenue growth in its key segments ...
RECOMMENDATION:
SBI: Buy
Investors looking for a large-cap stock which will add value to their portfolio can consider accumulating the State Bank of India stock in declines. Beaten down valuations, strong financials in an extremely challenging macro environment, ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Bajaj Auto: Hold
The Bajaj Auto stock has fallen by about 40 per cent since the beginning of this month ...
RECOMMENDATION:
ICICI Prudential Dynamic Plan: Hold
Investors can hold the units of ICICI Pru Dynamic Plan (ICICI Dynamic) given the fund’s ability to contain downsides and provide steady returns during market rallies. The fund has over one-, three- and five-year periods, bettered ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Franklin India Opportunities: Hold
Investors can retain their units of Franklin India Opportunities Fund based on the fund’s performance over a three-year period. The fund was launched in 2000 as a thematic fund (Franklin Internet Opportunities) but was restructured into ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Query Corner: What the charts say
Please let me know your comments on Swaraj Engines bought at Rs 240. ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Challenging times for MFs
Mutual funds have been facing challenging times lately. A declining equity market has shrunk the asset base of most equity funds, the liquidity crunch has had corporates and institutional investors lining up with redemption demands, and ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Of greed, ignorance and derivatives
Derivatives have been the villain in the Great Global Meltdown of 2008. Everyone is all praise for Warren Buffet’s ominous statement that “Derivatives are financial weapons of mass ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Income funds: Turn for the better
Higher yield on equity over the past few years persuaded investors to direct a bulk of their investment towards this asset class. The investment terrain for equity is not going to be as smooth as it was for the past few years. ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Week in Pictures
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FINANCIAL SERVICES:
Treatment of claims for bad debts
Volatile movement of the stock market this year has left many investors high and dry due to huge capital losses. The share broking community, too, is faced with twin dilemmas. One, a shrinkage in daily transaction volume and resultant ...
STOCKS:
Cairn to start seismic work in Ravva fields
Move to tap deeper sands, satellite pools. Hyderabad, Nov. 29 Cairn India is in the process of finalising plans to take up time lapse 4D seismic studies in the deeper sands of the Ravva Oil fields in the Krishna Godavari ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Andrew’s pitchfork
Some tools in technical analysis appear so simple that they are dismissed by most after a cursory glance. ‘Andrew’s pitchfork’ is one such tool that does not receive the attention that it deserves. This technical tool ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Maruti Suzuki
Maruti Udyog Limited closed the week on a flat note after fluctuating between Rs 490 and Rs 550 over the ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Reliance Industries
Reliance Industries Limited reversed below the resistance at Rs 1,200 and moved sideways between Rs 1,050 and Rs 1,200 ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Infosys
Infosys closed the week with a mild 4 per cent gain. A morning star candlestick pattern is being formed in the weekly chart that signals a short term ...
STOCK MARKETS:
SBI
State Bank of India was unable to gather the momentum to move past Rs 1,245 and slid lower towards Rs 1,000 ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Tata Steel
Tata Steel stock moved in an extremely narrow band between Rs 145 and Rs 165 in the four trading sessions last ...
STOCK MARKETS:
ONGC
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited too meandered sideways retaining the positive short term ...
FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS:
Prominent bulk deals in NSE and BSE
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COMMENTARY:
Cues trigger upmove
Terror strikes fail to tame Indian market. Following two consecutive weeks of negative closing, the BSE Sensex managed to end in the green at 9092 by gaining 177 points over the previous week amid unprecedented terrorist attacks at the ...
OUTLOOK:
Home country bias
It should be noted that in times of uncertainty investors seek the familiar and tend to divest from markets that seem unfamiliar or uncertain, irrespective of the investment merit, which partly explains the selling by FIIs and the subsequent ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Update
Morgan Stanley Mutual Fund has announced that Morgan Stanley Growth Fund (MSGF), which was initially close-ended, would become an open-ended fund from January 2009. As per the regulatory guidelines, the unit-holders will be ...
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