The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, February 26, 2006

Bracing for Budget effect
We may be poised for a period of lacklustre price trends. To handle such a trend, it may be better to hedge risks by buying Nifty puts or short futures than bowing out of the equity space. More

SIMPLE ECONOMICS

Downside averaging
One of our clients has a typical trading pattern. He identifies a stock and buys the entire quantity on a single day. He buys more of the stock if it is likely to decline subsequently. The logic is simple. As you buy at lower levels, ... More

TAX TALK

Taking stock of interest
I have taken a loan and invested the amount in stocks. Will the interest payment on the loan be allowed as a deduction in computing the capital gains when I sell the shares? I have taken a personal loan and given it as a loan to my wife and ... More

AUTO FOCUS

`Innova'-ted for the customer
Anniversaries are a good time to go car shopping. Anniversaries marking milestones for the car itself, that is. With increasing price competition and new models, manufacturers often fall back on this oft-resorted-to marketing ... More

BOOK VALUE

Getting inside the mind of the traders
To understand markets, try out, Traders, written by Mark Fenton-O'Creevy, Nigel Nicholson, Emma Soane and Paul Willman, from Oxford (www.oup.com). The book is based on a study, over three years, of more than a hundred ... More

QUESTION 'N' AUTO

Fitting A/c in Omni LPG will not be effective
I have purchased a Maruti Omni LPG van (company-fitted option), which runs on dual fuel and features a 50-litre LPG tank and a five-litre petrol tank. I want to know whether the small five-litre petrol tank can be replaced with the 36-litre ... More

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