MARKETS
STOCK MARKETS:
Market decline is steep while fall in FII holdings is not
Impact cost, blind following by retail investors could be the cause. BL Research Bureau For much of 2008, FIIs have been cast as the villains of the piece in the Indian stock market meltdown. Net sales of Rs 52,842 crore executed this year by ...
STOCK MARKETS:
A toast to regulators
A toast needs to be raised the Indian stock exchanges and the market regulator who ensured that our markets functioned smoothly through the intense volatility in 2008, without resorting to ad-hoc measures adopted in other countries such ...
OUTLOOK:
Index Outlook
Stock prices suffered as a result of investor apathy last week as market participants took a much-needed break to indulge in some year-end revelry. Volumes plunged and Sensex ended 7 per cent lower. Talks of yet another stimulus package ...
OUTLOOK:
Sensex outlook for 2009
The word ‘unprecedented’ crops up often when we review the movement of the Indian markets in ...
RECOMMENDATION:
HDFC High Interest Fund: Invest
Gilt funds have been top performers over the past quarter, as a series of cuts in interest rates and lower inflation expectations triggered a spike in gilt prices. However, with the yield on the ten-year gilt already down to 5.7 per cent, ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Sundaram BNP Paribas Tax Saver: Invest
Investors can buy the units of Sundaram BNP Paribas Tax Saver (Sundaram Tax) considering its long-term track record in delivering impressive returns and ability to ...
RECOMMENDATION:
BGR Energy Systems: Buy
BGR Energy Systems, an engineering procurement and construction (EPC) player in the power sector, has bagged some of its biggest orders in the last two quarters, assuaging concerns about slowing order flow suggested by key macro ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Power Finance Corporation: Invest
Investors with low-risk appetite can consider the Power Finance Corporation (PFC) stock, as the stock is trading at attractive valuations after being beaten down in the stock market crash. With markets in a corrective phase, investors should ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Shoppers’ Stop: Hold
Shoppers’ Stop, a premium retailer with a pan-India presence, has seen a deteriorating financial performance in recent quarters. Currently priced at Rs. 174.7, this stock is unlikely to deliver in the coming quarters. While holding ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Only safe options scored
No place to hide. That’s the expression that best captures what investors went through in 2008, easily the most traumatic year in recent memory for active ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Nifty future may make another attempt to rise
Trading volumes lowest on Friday. The Nifty future failed to sustain the rally last week. It ended sharply lower, dipping well below the crucial 3000-mark to end at ...
INVESTMENTS:
Go invest!
At the turn of the New Year, V Ramesh, CEO, Prabhudas Lilladher Financial Services Pvt Ltd, has a cheerful message for investors. He talks about why he thinks the market fall presents an opportunity rather than a ...
STOCKS:
Query Corner: What the charts say
I am holding shares of Rolta India purchased at Rs 275 and TTML bought at Rs 29. Kindly tell me the future of these stocks. ...
FINANCIAL MARKETS:
Valuations: Where India stands
‘To shrink is in’ suggest the global events of 2008, be it the shrinkage in GDP growth, liquidity, exports, industrial production or valuations. The country with the most promising growth story - China – boasted of a ...
STOCKS:
Reliance Ind
RIL eased lower and closed with 10 per cent loss last week. An evening star pattern is evident in the weekly chart that implies that the short-term trend has reversed from the recent peak at Rs 1,408. Presence of both the 50 as well as the ...
STOCKS:
Maruti Suzuki
Maruti Suzuki moved contrary to our expectation last week; reversing from an intra week peak at Rs 559 and closing with a 7 per cent loss. Immediate support for the stock is at Rs ...
STOCKS:
Infosys
The sharp decline recorded on Friday resulted in Infosys closing the week with a 6 per cent ...
STOCKS:
Tata Steel
Tata Steel meandered sideways for the second successive week. Immediate short-term supports are at Rs 202 and then Rs 180. If the first support holds, it will imply that the stock can unfold the third leg of its move from December 2 trough. ...
STOCKS:
SBI
SBI moved in a narrow range between Rs 1,200 and Rs 1,325 last week. The short-term trend continues to be up and the shallow correction witnessed last week implies that there can be one more leg higher to Rs 1,380 or Rs 1,425 in the ...
STOCKS:
ONGC
This stock was unable to surpass the resistance offered by the 50-day moving average and moved to the lower end of its short-term trading band at Rs ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Selling options: Profiting from negatively-skewed strategies
Desperate times call for desperate measures. That is, perhaps, one of the reasons why many novice traders are now resorting to selling options. This article discusses such short trade set-ups. It also shows how option sellers can ...
COMMENTARY:
Weak earnings expectations drag indices
Stock indices remained under sustained pressure in the week as fears over possibility of below-par third quarter results rose , on the back of fall in advance tax payments made by ...
FINANCIAL MARKETS:
Common structured products: An overview
One of the key features of the evolving financial industry landscape has been the rising complexity of its components, and its processes. This has been in response to the increasing realisation that no two investors are the same, and neither ...
OUTLOOK:
2009 will be better than last year
The Indian markets have suffered a lot in 2008 because of concentrated selling by FIIs, which has its roots in the global economic crisis. Till such time there is clarity on how the global economy will cope with de-leveraging, it will ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Point and Figure charts
The point and figure chart analysis was in vogue much before computers were invented. Point and figure charts can be better understood by comparing them with bar ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Equity Linked Savings Schemes — Lagging open-end funds
The steep fall in the market in 2008 has taken its toll on the diversified and ELSS (equity linked saving scheme) mutual fund schemes. Average one-year declines for both categories were above 50 per cent. However, ELSS schemes have tended to ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Snapshots 2008
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DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENT:
Update
UTI Mutual Fund has declared dividend under the following schemes. UTI Bond Fund( 4 per cent),UTI G-Sec Investment Plan( 3 per cent ),UTI Gilt Advantage Fund LTP(4 per cent) and UTI Gilt Advantage Fund- PF Plan(4 per ...
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