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INVESTMENTS
Commodities: Time is ripe to invest
Notwithstanding internal and external challenges faced by the farm sector, there are huge opportunities for investment in related businesses. More

ESOPS
BUDGET TAKES
Taking the sop out of ESOPs
With PAN becoming the most important number ever, those of you who have still not applied for a PAN, get cracking. More

INSIGHT
Giving debt its due
Several changes over the past year necessitate an overhaul of your debt portfolio. More

Riding the equity turbulence
Investors may be better off staying on the sidelines in the near term, without taking fresh exposures. It may pay to keep tabs on changes in interest rates. More

Five points someone overlooked
Here are five proposals which, had they been considered by the Finance Minister, might have balanced the Budget better between industry and agriculture. More

The ABC of financial planning
If the future always went according to plan, financial planning would be a one-time exercise. But life throws a few curves now and then. More

Budget steers clear of auto lane
Much of the demands made by the auto industry were not met in this year's Budget. More

MUTUAL FUNDS
Birla Equity Plan: Invest
Investors can consider exposure in Birla Equity Plan, an open-ended tax-planning fund with a lock-in period of three years. Under the present market scenario, taking exposure to a diversified equity fund may help reduce risks arising out of ... More

Magnum Emerging Businesses: Hold
Most of the out-performance happened in the last six months, when the fund restructured its portfolio, toning down aggressive exposures. More

HSBC Advantage India Fund: Hold
HSBC Advantage India Fund's unit-holders can retain their investments in the fund. The returns generated for the past year appear better than those from funds such as SBI BlueChip and Reliance Equity, launched during the same period. As the ... More

ABN AMRO Opportunities Fund: Software in top slot
ABN AMRO Opportunities Fund is an open-ended fund with the objective of investing across the market capitalisation range. Its mandate permits it to take relatively concentrated exposures to a few sectors. The fund is aggressive in churning its ... More

Fund Update
Franklin Templeton Investments has announced a 30 per cent dividend under the dividend option of Franklin India Prima Plus. The record date is March 7. Tata Mutual Fund has revised the load structure for Tata Growth Fund with ... More

Market View
Our view on the Indian equity market is that after the pre and post Budget fall, the market can be expected to consolidate for some time. With respect to the budget provisions, some of the affected sectors have reacted sharply to ... More

Fund Talk
What does the Budget proposal to hike dividend distribution tax on liquid/money market mutual funds mean for individual investors? Should they switch into other investment options? Present position: Liquid/money market funds, which ... More

STOCKS
IVRCL: Buy
Nagarjuna Construction: Buy

The thrust on irrigation and water management in the recent Budget augur well for the companies, as both have a strong presence in this space. More

Cummins India: Buy
While the company is set to witness a broad-based growth, its power generation segment is likely to propel growth. More

Gokaldas Exports: Buy
Fresh capacities, a diversifying product and client mix and the identification of the domestic retail market as a new revenue stream would ensure that revenue growth remains in strong double-digit. More

Polaris Software: Buy
Investors with a high-risk appetite can consider an exposure in the Polaris Software stock taking advantage of the recent weakness. At the current market price, the stock trades at a price-earnings multiple of 16 times its likely per share ... More

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Nifty may remain volatile
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Index Outlook
The Union Budget for 2007 has turned out to be a non-event as far as stock markets are concerned. It was the tremors emanating out of China that made the Indian equities lose their footing and fall with a thud last week. The post-budget recovery ... More

Reliance
RIL reversed from an all-time high of Rs 1,445 last Monday and closed the week with a loss of 7 per cent. The giant engulfing candle following the doji star on the weekly chart looks ominous. The medium term outlook has turned negative and this ... More

SBI
SBI has slipped towards our medium term support of Rs 1,000. The presence of the 200-day moving average at this level makes it an important long-term support. If the stock price slips through this level, it could halt in the band between Rs 950 ... More

Tata Steel
The short-term rally that started on February 14 came to an end on the Budget day. Though, the stock price rose in the early part of last week it could not squeeze past our resistance level of Rs 486 and Tata Steel ended with a 3 per cent loss. ... More

Infosys
Infosys could not get past the resistance of Rs 2,250 that we had indicated last week. It has moved down to the first medium term target of Rs 2,100. A five-wave move seems complete from the June lows in Infosys. The short-term trend is extremely ... More

ACC
There was no abatement in the slide in ACC and it achieved our target of Rs 842. If it does not halt around Rs 840, the C wave will unfold with all its ferocity. And it will take the stock price to the next target of Rs 667. The long-term ... More

ONGC
ONGC made an intra week low of Rs 750, close to our farthest target of Rs 742. The fact that it has managed to close the week above the 200-day moving average is a positive signal. However, wait for a close above Rs 830 before buying this ... More

Query Corner
I have bought Allahabad Bank at Rs 99. Should I exit now or wait? Nitish Allahabad Bank (Rs 76.1): Allahabad Bank has been moving southward since it hit a high of Rs 99 in November 2006. The immediate support for the stock ... More

Tech Tools
I bought 30 shares of BHEL at Rs 2,500 after it announced a bonus in the ratio of 1:1 in January. But the stock has been going down ever since. Why it is so? As per my perception the price should have moved upward. Does this mean that the ... More

Trader's Corner
Many of us would be familiar to the situation in which a stock that has been pushed to the back of our minds and it starts zooming up suddenly. We do not want to see all the profit whittle away again. At the same time, we want to avoid the ... More

CARS
Where three is company
Production scheduling and equitably sharing of manufacturing facility in the new joint venture of the triumvirate — M&M, Renault and Nissan — will be a challenge. More

Get set for new Getz
This is the new Hyundai Getz that will hit Indian roads soon. Hyundai Motor India will start production of this new face-lifted model from March. But the initial few months' production rolling out of the company's Chennai plant will all be ... More

TWO/THREE WHEELERS
With lots more charisma
To invigorate Karizma's image and take on the competition, Hero Honda has launched a new, snazzier, refreshed version of this 223cc bike. More

ECONOMICS
Economics of pricing dessert
Consider this. My friend, a psychologist, frequents fancy restaurants. He has the main course at such restaurants but always visits an upscale low-calorie fruit juice shop for dessert. When questioned about his behaviour, he said that he liked to ... More

STOCK MARKETS
Prominent bulk deals on NSE and BSE
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Baskets of X
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Bull's Eye
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DERIVATIVES MARKETS
Options Guide
Call option: A call option gives the buyer `the right but not the obligation' to buy the stock at a specified price on a future date. Put option: A put option gives the buyer `the right but not the obligation' to sell a stock ... More

INCOME TAX
Finance Bill 2007 and personal taxation
While the rates of income-tax are not proposed to be changed, there is a new levy, the secondary and higher education cess, which would be 1 per cent of the tax and surcharge. This cess will be computed only on the tax and surcharge and will ... More

PEOPLE
Investment Nuggets
One of the savviest observers of trends across different asset classes in the global markets, Marc Faber is an interviewer's delight. In June 1990, after serving as Managing Director of Drexel Burnham Lambert (HK), he set up his own ... More

BOOKS
Stock market is like the Rorschach inkblot test
Like the majority, you perhaps rely on your broker's recommendations and pick up stocks to buy and sell. If so, it pays to know that the recommendations can be untrustworthy, as Clifford Pistolese writes ... More






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