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NEW FUND OFFER
Update
Lotus India Asset Management Company has launched an open-ended equity scheme Lotus AGILE (Alpha Generated from Industry Leaders Fund), a quant-based mutual fund scheme.The investment objective of the scheme is to ... More

INSIGHT
P-note regulations and after
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No backdoor entry to Street party, please!
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Locking in gains using OPTIONS — Strategies to hedge equity risk
Dabbling in derivatives can be very risky. However, when used for hedging, the same instruments help reduce the risk an investor bears when stock prices fall. Investors of all descriptions, with the help of options, can hedge their equity ... More

Chasing index returns
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COMMODITIES
COMMODITY CONCEPTS
Tariff as regulatory tool
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MUTUAL FUNDS
SMART MESSAGE
Avoid over-diversification
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Sundaram BNP Paribas Select Focus: Invest
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Birla Sun Life Tax Relief 96: Invest
Investment can be considered in Birla Sun Life Tax Relief 96, an open-ended, equity-linked tax saving fund. The fund’s performance has picked up over the past two years after trailing the category average for a while. The fund, ... More

Taurus Starshare and UTI Infrastructure — Heavy on capital goods
The equity market is moving in highly volatile phases since the news on P-notes started to hit the headlines. The sectors and stocks that surged sharply in the past few months underwent huge intra-day swings. Compared to the previous weeks, a ... More

Fund Talk
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STOCKS
Lupin: Buy
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Sasken: Hold
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Shanthi Gears: Buy
Fresh investments with a one to two-year perspective can be considered in the stock of Shanthi Gears, a leading manufacturer of industrial gears. Buoyant demand trends from user industries, improving product and revenue mix combined with a ... More

Amara Raja: Hold
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Patent Age
Suven Life Sciences has announced that the Indian Patent Office had granted three product patents corresponding to three New Chemical Entities (NCEs) that will be useful in the treatment of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson and Schizophrenia ... More

Serving news
Satyam has signed an agreement with Fujitsu Services to provide IT services to Reuters as part of a 10-year, $1-billion internal information systems transformation programme. ... More

Roping orders
Public sector undertaking BEML secured an order from Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL) for supplying and servicing electric rope shovels worth Rs 648 crore. The company has also launched a marketing office cum warehouse at Malaysia. ... More

Prominent bulk deals on NSE & BSE
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What’s ahead
With SEBI putting the touchy ‘participatory notes’ issue to rest, this week the spotlight is once again on macroeconomic events that might dictate the market mood. An important event next week is Mid-Term Review of Annual ... More

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Query Corner
I have purchased HCL Infosystem at Rs 238. Please give me the short term and long term outlook for this stock. Shankaran .P.S. HCL Infosystems (Rs 230.1): HCL Infosystem has been ... More

Consider going short on Nifty future
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Index Outlook
Strong quarterly earnings and short-covering ahead of the expiry of the October derivative contracts played a significant role in the 9 per cent surge in the Sensex last week. The ease with which the Indian equity markets have discounted the ... More

Reliance Industries
The stock of Reliance Industries underwent a bout of volatility after registering a new life high at Rs 2,805. The stock fell to Rs 2,278 on October 17; a hair’s breadth away from our medium term trend deciding level of Rs 2,260. ... More

SBI
SBI moved lower as we had anticipated in our last column, but the stock fell way below our target to Rs 1,601. The magnitude of the fall leads us to assume that the move from the March trough ended on October 1. But a fresh impulse wave has ... More

Tata Steel
Tata Steel moved in line with our expectation last week; first plunging to a low of Rs 785 and then recovering to move beyond Rs 900. The fourth wave of the move that commenced from the March trough of Rs 400 appears to have been completed in ... More

Infosys
Infosys moved closer to the lower boundary of the medium term trading band between Rs 1,700 and Rs 2,000 that we had defined for the stock. The trend in the stock has been extremely weak over the last fortnight; moving below both the 50- and ... More

Bharti Airtel
We had expected a quiet consolidation phase between Rs 1,050 and Rs 1,150 in our previous column. But the stock has already tested the Rs 900 level in the current correction. However, our medium term outlook for the stock stays positive and we ... More

Satyam Computers
Satyam whipsawed blindly between Rs 400 and Rs 500 in the last fortnight keeping everyone guessing. There is an important resistance band between Rs 480 and Rs 500 for the stock. The intermediate term outlook for this stock will turn ... More

Trader's Corner
Do charts with the bullish three white soldiers and bullish engulfing candlestick pattern suggest that they should be bought? Dr K.K. ChandramohanBasically, there are four types of chart constructions; ... More

CARS
Tata’s new and exciting Safari
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TWO/THREE WHEELERS
How satisfied are our bikers?
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Hero Honda Hunk joins the action
Hero Honda already has three bikes in the150cc+ segment - the Achiever, theCBZ XTREME and the Karizma. And nowit has launched a new, fourth bike, theHunk, to take on the Bajaj Pulsar - thecurrent brand leader in this category. More

ECONOMICS
Lured by freebies
Consider this. You are a senior-level executive working for a mid-sized firm. You earn approximately Rs 3 lakh per month or Rs 10,000 per day. Saturdays and Sundays are holidays. So, you get paid on those days too, even if you do not work. The ... More

STOCK MARKETS
Baskets of X
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Bull's Eye
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INCOME TAX
Can my grandma claim exemption?
My grandmother sold her house property which was owned by her for more than 40 years. She invested the proceeds from the sale in capital gains accounts scheme with a nationalised bank before the due date ... More

IPOS
Religare Enterprises: Invest at cut-off
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BOOKS
Bank on feeling plus thinking when investing
What makes so many smart people feel so stupid? Investing, says Jason Zweig in ‘Your Money & Your Brain’ ( www.landmarkonthenet.com). The book is about ... More

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