MARKETS
OUTLOOK:
Further headroom for Sensex gains seen
Brokerages expect equities re-rating, earnings upgrades. With the 20 per cent post-election rally, the Sensex has already shot past the new 2009 targets set by many brokerage ...
INVESTMENTS:
Gold‘en’ jewellery option, just rent it
BEATING RECESSION. Mumbai, May 30 You can rent a house, a car, a locker, and even a dress. Now, how about renting jewellery made of real gold and studded with precious ...
OUTLOOK:
Index Outlook — Air pockets ahead
Sensex treaded water in the early part of last week as the expiry of the May derivative contracts dominated proceedings. Fresh resolve displayed by the new (?) Cabinet to make a difference this time around, provided the impetus to help ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Redington India: Buy
Investors with a two-year horizon may buy the shares of Redington India, an IT hardware and software ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Tata Motors: Hold
Tata Motors is in a phase that cricket commentators would call consolidation — that is, the period where the side chasing runs rebuilds its innings after the fall of a couple of quick wickets. The company is slowly but surely picking up ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Shriram Transport Finance Company: Buy
Fresh investments can be considered in the stock of Shriram Transport Finance Company (STFC), which is among the leading asset financing (commercial vehicle financing) NBFCs in ...
RECOMMENDATION:
JK Lakshmi Cement: Buy
The stock of JK Lakshmi Cements looks an attractive buy in the mid-cap cement space at the current price of Rs 98. The stock trades at just three times its trailing four quarter earnings when some of its peers are at over six times ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Welspun India (Rs 35.8): Buy
The structural down-trend from December 2004 peak in this stock halted at Rs 13 this February and a strong uptrend is in motion since ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Birla Sun Life Frontline Equity Fund: Invest
Investors can consider buying the units of Birla Sunlife Frontline Equity Fund (Birla Frontline), given its long-term track record of delivering steady returns and ability to contain downsides during ...
RECOMMENDATION:
Magnum Multiplier Plus 1993: Invest
Investors with a penchant for high risk can consider investments in Magnum Multiplier Plus. The fund has generated a compounded annualised return of 34 per cent over a five-year period and outpaced the benchmark BSE-100 by 10 percentage ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Lumpsum still scores
In a volatile market.... In a highly volatile market, the SIP (systematic investment plan) is considered better than lumpsum investments. Mutual funds too advocate this method to weather volatile markets. But the numbers suggest a different ...
FINANCIAL MARKETS:
How to climb out of debt trap
Debt is an important tool available to every individual who is keen to build his assets. Being in debt is not a bad thing as long as you are taking steps to pay it ...
FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS:
All about QIPs
With most funding routes closed, Qualified Institutional Placements or QIPs seem especially alluring at the ...
STOCKS:
Query Corner : What the charts say
I have purchased Praj Industries at Rs 75. Please advise whether to book profit or buy some more at current ...
STOCK EXCHANGES:
New body set up for bullion trade
To strive to make India a price setter of gold. Mumbai, May 30 National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL) on Saturday announced the creation of the Indian Bullion Market Association, which it described as a national-level body that will represent the ...
STOCKS:
Pivotals
RIL moved sideways in a narrow range before spurting to an intra week peak of Rs 2,304 on Friday. As indicated in our last column, the short-term trend in this stock is ...
STOCKS:
BOC India rules out raising equity for now
Kolkata, May 30 BOC India management has made it clear that the company was not increasing its equity now and was also not considering delisting of its stock. This means the promoters, the Linde Group of Germany, have decided against ...
STOCKS:
The line-up for disinvestment
By now, it is quite clear that the Government does have divestment of its stakes in PSUs high on its agenda for the next few months. That may well allow investors to buy into a whole range of offers from listed as well as new PSUs. Which ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Nifty future may move higher, but caution advised
Defying gravity, the market continued to witness a firm trend. The Nifty June future closed the week at 4441 with a gain of 4.8 per cent over the previous week’s close of 4256.2. However, the June future closed at a discount of about ...
FINANCIAL MARKETS:
RBI panel deliberates on financial market development
Mumbai, May 30 A meeting of the High-Level Coordination Committee on Financial Markets (HLCCFM) was held on Saturday at the Reserve Bank of ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Relative Strength Index
One of the most useful and popular momentum oscillators is the Relative Strength Index (RSI). It was developed by J. Welles Wilder and published in his book New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems in 1978. The RSI ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Fund Talk
Please give your advice on my investments for a long-term horizon of 5 to 7 years. I have invested in small amounts in all schemes spread over a period of last 2.5 years even during the Sensex high of 21000 and during the lows of ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Update
Reliance Mutual Fund has launched a fund that will invest in infrastructure companies. Opportunities in the related sectors such as transport, banks and financial institutions, energy, power and oil, metals and minerals, ...
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