MARKETS
INVESTMENTS:
Hedging offsets gain on rupee for exporters
Mumbai, March 7 The depreciating rupee has brought some cheer to exporters. But the slowdown in international demand is forcing exporters to give discounts to buyers denting their ...
INVESTMENTS:
Global funds: Only some deliver
International or global funds, a relatively new offering for Indian investors, have acquitted themselves well in the year or more since they were flagged off. As a class, these funds have contained their NAV losses better their domestic ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Sensex picture better on consolidated results
BL Research Bureau Leading Indian companies reported better growth based on their consolidated operations for the December quarter than they did on a standalone ...
OUTLOOK:
Index Outlook
The might of the bulls was severely tested last week as the Sensex helplessly sliced through one support after another. The slide was finally reined just above the 8000 mark. Frantic cuts in policy rates by the Reserve Bank of India, Bank ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Bharti Airtel: Buy
Investments with a one-, two-year horizon may be made in the shares of Bharti Airtel. The company’s continuing leadership in the mobile division, increasing strength of its enterprise carrier division and improvement in the tenancy in ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Accumulate these stocks
Investors with a long-term perspective can consider accumulating the Lupin stock, now trading at Rs 590. Steady growth in revenues over the years combined with strong presence in key target markets such as the US, the EU and Japan, besides ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Suzlon Energy: Buy
Investors with an over three-year perspective can consider accumulating the stock of Suzlon Energy. While there is no denying that Suzlon is the least decoupled from the global slowdown and is also plagued by internal challenges such as ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Zee News: Buy
Investors with a two-year horizon can consider accumulating the shares of Zee News (Zee), a news and regional entertainment broadcaster, considering the leading viewer-ship position for several of its channels and strength in ...
RECOMMENDATION:
HSBC Dynamic: Invest
Investors can consider adding the HSBC Dynamic Fund to their portfolio. Though the fund is relatively new , it has done well to contain its downside in turbulent markets. Not only has it significantly outpaced its benchmark, the BSE 200 but ...
RECOMMENDATION:
IDFC Dynamic Bond: Invest
Investors looking to diversify their exposure in debt can consider investing small amounts in IDFC Dynamic Bond Fund. True to its name, the fund has been actively managing its debt portfolio and making tactical shifts between long and short ...
STOCKS:
Query Corner: What the charts say
What are the prospects of Opto Circuits and Nitin Fire Protection? ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
SIPs: It’s about behavioural investing
This column dated January 11, 2009 had discussed about systematic investment plans ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Downtrend may persist in Nifty future
The benchmark Nifty finally broke the 2650 support level after moving in a narrow band for a few weeks. The Nifty future closed at 2608.65, a sharp fall of 4.44 per cent over the previous week’s close of 2730. However, despite the ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
‘We want to be invested as defensively as possible’
‘Buy on negative news and sell on good news’ appears to be the simple yet difficult-to-implement philosophy of Mr Sankaran Naren, Chief Investment Officer Equities, ICICI Prudential Asset Management. ...
STOCKS:
Maruti Suzuki
Maruti Suzuki failed to move above the resistance at Rs 700 as indicated in this column last week. But the stock is halting above the first support at Rs 636. The 21 and 200-day moving averages present in this band will lend strong support in ...
STOCKS:
Tata Steel
Tata Steel too slipped lower though the rebound witnessed on Friday curtailed the weekly loss to 9 per cent. Friday’s revival can trigger a rally to Rs 170 or Rs 184 next week. The stock is currently halting just above the key medium ...
STOCKS:
Reliance Ind
Reliance Industries declined in line with our expectation last week. As discussed earlier, the stock has been forming a symmetric triangle since October 2008. The lower boundary of this triangle at Rs 1,200 was penetrated last week. A firm ...
STOCKS:
Infosys
Infosys moved sideways with a negative bias in the first four sessions before the bullish engulfing candle formed on Friday helped the stock to close with a minor weekly loss. The key near-term support at Rs 1,165 is cushioning the declines ...
STOCKS:
SBI
It was a water-shed week for SBI as it made a decisive move below the support at Rs 1,000. This is an important support from a long-term perspective since it occurs at 61.8 per cent retracement of the entire bull-market from the 2001 ...
STOCKS:
ONGC
ONGC declined to Rs 640 on Tuesday and spent the rest of the week vacillating in a range between Rs 640 and Rs 670. We retain a bearish short-term view for the stock. This view will be negated only on a close above Rs 694. Short-term ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Gold funds glitter
Gold funds have been the best performing funds in the international funds category. Given that gold is viewed as a safe investment haven, the outlook for gold and gold mining companies remains bullish for the foreseeable future. In India, there ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Hammer and hanging man candlestick patterns
Some candlestick patterns such as hammer, hanging man, inverted hammer and shooting star are formed with a single candlestick. Hammer and inverted hammer are formed following a decline and are bullish reversal patterns, while the hanging man ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Index Exchange Traded Funds — Buy the market
The 60 per cent decline in broad markets over the past year and valuations that are well below ten-year averages make this a good time to make lumpsum investments in a basket of stocks. But having decided to do that, what should you buy? If ...
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Ramanujam Sridhar
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S Ramesh Kumar
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Radhika Chada
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