INVESTMENT WORLD
STOCKS
BHEL: Buy
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Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals: Buy
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Colgate Palmolive India: Buy
Investors can use recent market declines to add the Colgate Palmolive India stock to their portfolio. Strong rural offtake for FMCG products and Colgate’s expanding market shares in oral care suggest that the company could sustain strong ...
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Tulip IT Services: Buy
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Welspun Gujarat Stahl Rohren: Buy
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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Query Corner
Please advise me on Power Finance Corporation purchased at Rs 245. Subur Basha Shaikh. Power Finance Corporation (Rs 150.8): When we had reviewed the stock in June 2007, we had ...
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Reliance
RIL moved within a very narrow band last week. The near-term outlook for the stock stays negative since it is moving just below its long-term 200 day moving average. The stock is also hovering below the long-term trend line drawn from the 2005 ...
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SBI
State Bank of India moved below the lower boundary of its medium-term range at Rs 1,800 last week. The medium-term outlook has now turned negative and the stock is expected to slide down towards Rs 1,600 and then Rs 1,450 over the medium-term. ...
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Tata Steel
The ceiling at Rs 850 once again thwarted Tata Steel’s attempts at recovery last week. The reversal from the intra week high at Rs 838 could be the beginning of the third leg of the sell-off that began from the January peak at Rs 952. ...
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Infosys
Infosys slid past the near term support at Rs 1,400 last Wednesday. The immediate target for the stock is the January 22 trough at Rs 1,212 and below that the stock could seek the support at Rs 1,122. The preferred scenario for Infosys for the ...
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Bharti Airtel
This stock made a feeble attempt to move higher last week, but the rally was arrested below our second resistance at Rs 830 reaffirming the negative medium-term outlook for the stock. If the support at Rs 700 is breached, Bharti could decline ...
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Trader's Corner
One of the technical patterns that is most likely to send a thrill of anticipation in dealing rooms is the double bottom pattern since these portend a reversal of a prolonged down trend and a sound entry level for traders. The security ...
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Satyam Computers
Satyam Computers registered a 10 per cent loss last week and the near-term outlook has now turned explicitly negative due to the fall below Rs 400 on Wednesday. The weekly momentum indicators are moving sideways over the past year indicating ...
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INSIGHT
Cues from the market decline
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MF assets to touch $440 billion by 2012
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MacroTracker
If you are a believer in the Cockroach Theory (‘One bit of bad news means there is more to follow’), then the recently released Index of Industrial Production (IIP) numbers for January should ring warning bells. The widely-tracked ...
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ECONOMY
TOP OF MIND
Of debt and liabilities
Treasury bills are instruments that finance the short-term requirements of the Government. They are highly liquid having an active secondary market and are issued at a discount to face value.
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MUTUAL FUNDS
NEW FUND ON THE BLOCK
DSPML Natural Resources and New Energy Fund
DSP Merrill Lynch Natural Resources and New Energy (DSPML NRNEF) is the new fund offered by the DSPML Fund Managers. This open-ended thematic equity fund will seek to invest predominantly in companies involved in the discovery, production, ...
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HDFC Growth Fund: Stability in holdings
HDFC Growth Fund invests in stocks across market capitalisations. Despite a large-cap bias, mid and small cap stocks account for 28 per cent of the portfolio. The fund has managed to consistently beat its benchmark Sensex over one-, three- and ...
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Market View
Fund update
RECOMMENDATION
Principal Tax Savings Fund: Invest
Investments can be considered in Principal Tax Savings Fund, an open-ended equity-linked saving scheme, based on its three-year performance. Among the tax-saving options, this fund has outpaced its peers but trailed Magnum Tax Gain during this ...
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Kotak 30: Invest
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SHIPPING
Shipbuilding: Setting sail to favourable winds
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CARS
GM's cashless offer
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TWO/THREE WHEELERS
Honda Aviator: On a new flight path
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Flame from one spark plug
The spat between TVS Motor and Bajaj Auto came to head earlier this year, when the High Court in Chennai restrained the former from making its bike — Flame 125 — with twin spark plug engine technology. Even as it attempts to ...
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GENERAL INSURANCE
A curious case of the in-grown toe nail
Varun had been suffering from acute pain in his big toe for a few days as the toenail has grown inwards. After some procrastination, he limped to a corporate hospital close by. This is what followed: An immediate in-patient admission, ...
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INVESTMENTS
Is a buy-and-hold strategy optimal?
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Go for the attack — and mind the defence too
To manage one’s financial balance sheet, it takes a good mix of both offensive as well as defensive strategies. Offensive strategies are designed to grow one’s assets while defensive play is utilised to protect the assets. The ...
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HOW-TO-GUIDE
How to open a demat account
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ECONOMICS
Is free really so?
The other day, my friend and I went to a shop to buy him some formal trousers. He found just one trouser that he liked. The salesperson then told him that he could get two shirts free if he bought another trouser. So, my friend spent Rs 1,250 ...
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STOCK MARKETS
Index Outlook
It was an interesting tussle between the bulls and the bears on the Indian bourses last week. Bears had plenty of ammunition in the form of weak IIP numbers, soaring crude prices and sub-prime related write-offs with which they gained the ...
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Baskets of X
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Prominent bulk deals on NSE & BSE
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Bull's Eye
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FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS
TRACKING FUND FLOWS
Asian markets jittery as all eyes on upcoming Fed meet
So far 2008 has turned out to be a lacklustre year for equities. The global meltdown has wiped off $3.3 trillion of global investor wealth this year, with Pakistan being the lone stock market to stand tall. Emerging markets have suffered from ...
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INCOME TAX
Which treatments are exempt?
Three months ago, I had spent Rs 32,000 towards the laser surgery of my father’s eyes. Will the amount spent by me towards the laser surgery be eligible for deduction under Section 80DDB or under any other Section? ...
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PEOPLE
Investment Nuggets
Michael Steinhardt was a prominent hedge fund manager of the 1970s. There were few investment instruments over which he did not wield mastery. He formed a hedge fund company along with Howard Berkowitz and Jerrold Fine. Under ...
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BOOKS
Tournament of ESOPs
Why is office life so frustrating? Why do your colleagues stab you in the back while your boss is paid a fortune for lounging around? And why does your undoubted talents go unrewarded?Tim Harford of ‘The Undercover ...
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