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Sameer Deans works with ThoughtWorks as a Business Analyst with nine years of work experience. He specialises in banking and financial services along with business process design, requirements analysis and agile development ...
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INSIGHT
Handle these hot cards with care
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Following the bulk deal trail to time your investments
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ECONOMY
MICRO-TRACKER
‘Core’ slowdown
The performance of the six core infrastructure industries may not be as widely tracked as the IIP, but it is still an important lead indicator on the economy. This indicator measures growth in core sectors such as electricity, coal, cement, ...
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TOP OF THE MIND
Pay Commission and you
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What’s ahead?
The Government is going to decide whether it should sacrifice a bit of growth to contain inflation. Data emanating last Friday showed that the wholesale price index inched closer to 7 per cent, its highest levels in 14 months. The data ...
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MUTUAL FUNDS
Sundaram BNP Paribas Select Focus: Invest thru SIP
Recent market declines may offer a good opportunity for investors to acquire exposures to frontline stocks in the listed space. Those looking to do so can consider investing in the Sundaram BNP Paribas Select Focus Fund. Despite a sharp ...
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Birla Sun Life Frontline Equity Fund: Invest
Birla Sun Life Frontline Equity Fund has been a consistent performer over a three and five-year period. It has outpaced the benchmark and category average over these time frames. The fund predominantly invests in large-cap growth ...
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Magnum Equity Fund: Energy retains charge
Magnum Equity is a fund that invests mainly in large-cap (Rs 10,000 crore) stocks. The investment in mid and small-cap stocks is at insignificant levels. The stocks in the portfolio indicate that the fund invests in highly liquid stocks. The ...
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Fund Talk
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Fund Update
Principal Mutual Fund has announced a dividend of 80 per cent under Principal Tax Savings Fund. The record date is March 31.Franklin Templeton Investments has announced maiden dividend under the ...
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STOCKS
Larsen & Toubro: BUY
With a diversified order book, proven execution skills and a strong balance sheet, Larsen & Toubro (L&T), India’s largest engineering conglomerate, is better-positioned to weather risks such as firm commodity prices and a ...
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Tech Mahindra: Buy
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Indo Tech Transformers: Buy
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Coromandel Fertilisers: Buy
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Wockhardt: Buy
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JLR snapped up
Tata Motors will acquire the Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) businesses by Tata Motors in an all-cash deal from Ford for Rs 9,200 crore. The acquisition would be financed through a 15-month, $3-billion bridge finance facility from a syndicate of ...
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Much needed
Jaiprakash Associates has managed to garner the much-needed funding for projects undertaken by its subsidiary, Jaypee Infratech. ICICI Bank has entered into an agreement to infuse Rs 1,150 crore into the subsidiary, through a 1 per cent equity ...
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Meaty order
Welspun Gujarat has secured an order for supply of spiral pipes worth Rs 1,075 crore in Northern Africa. With this order, Welspun’s order book position stands at over Rs 5,900 crore. ...
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Italian buy
Aurobindo Pharma’s acquisition of intellectual property and marketing authorisations in Italy from generic drug maker TAD will give it access to more than 70 products. Aurobindo has already filed 22 products for registration in Italy and ...
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TAXATION
Tax effect of dad’s gift to daughter
I have been investing in IPOs of companies in the name of my daughter, who is nineteen years old, from the money that I gifted to her. On the sale of such shares, in whose hands will the gains be ...
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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Query Corner
I have purchased Numeric Power Systems at Rs 960 per share. What is the prospect of this company for the long-term? K.A. NagarajNumeric Power Systems (Rs 534.9): This stock underwent ...
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Index Outlook
Last Tuesday’s fireworks has dispelled the gloom and led some quarters to hope that the elusive ‘bottom’ is finally in sight. The recovery was spurred by a surge in equity prices across the globe, and for once, no one was ...
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Reliance
RIL recovered above the near-term support at Rs 2,120 and moved to our first resistance at Rs 2,336. Though the short-term trend is currently up, the stock is poised just below its 200-day moving average and the momentum indicators in the ...
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SBI
Though SBI rallied strongly in the early part of last week it slid lower towards the weekend thus belying the strength in this up trend. The stock could now spend a couple of weeks moving in the band between Rs 1,600 and Rs ...
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Tata Steel
Tata Steel recorded an intra week low at Rs 575 before rebounding strongly. Since the first target for the C wave from January peak was at Rs 594, an intermediate-term trough could have been formed at this trough. The stock could now form an ...
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Infosys
Infosys reversed strongly to move to our short-term resistance at Rs 1,550. Though the formation of the higher trough at Rs 1,301 is encouraging, the near-term outlook stays cautious till the stock closes conclusively above Rs 1,550. A ...
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Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel moved higher to the second target at Rs 850, indicated in our previous column. We had also propounded the arguments for the formation of a long-term trough at Rs 700 last week. The movement of the stock last week is promising and ...
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Satyam Computers
The strong upward thrust in Satyam Computers was arrested at the intra week peak at Rs 424. The key resistance to watch next week is at Rs 424. Inability to move past this resistance would mean that the stock is moving down to Rs 370 or Rs 312 ...
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Trader's Corner
Anyone who has dabbled with charts would agree that one of the easiest tools available in technical analysis is the moving average. It gives buy and sell signals at the apt juncture that can be used by traders and investors alike to take or ...
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CARS
Tata Sumo Grande — Wrestling its way into the premium segment
Good looking and designed for comfort travel, the new Sumo Grande is a classic Tata vehicle in terms of its value-for-money proposition. The Grande has the potential to rattle existing favourites in the segment.
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Maruti's aggressive price for DZire
The new Swift DZire will compete with Tata Motors' Indigo CS (compact sedan), whichwas recently launched at Rs 3.66 lakh up to Rs 4.34 lakh and the Mahindra-Renault Logan,which is offered at Rs 3.89 lakh to Rs 5.02 lakh.Depending on the variant, ...
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Tata Motors brings home JLR trophy
Tata Motors' acquisition of two iconic British brands - Jaguar and Land Rover - wasfinally completed earlier this week. Well, it is true that their immediate previousowners were American, but the flavour of the two companies continues to be very ...
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GENERAL INSURANCE
Health insurance: A revised and enlarged menu
Health insurance in India has traditionally been associated with one name – “Mediclaim”. Though many of us don’t realise it — Mediclaim is actually a brand name, which acquired the status of a generic product ...
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STOCK MARKETS
Bull's Eye
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Prominent bulk deals on NSE & BSE
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Baskets of X
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DERIVATIVES MARKETS
Nifty future may move in a narrow range
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DO THE DERIVATIVE
When to use the Long Straddle
Long straddles are best suited for times when you are sure of a decisive move in the market, but are not sure of the direction of such a move.
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Derivatives: Is delivery-based market design optimal?
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TRENDS
Are you long-sighted?
A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I went to a dance concert. The performance by the students of a certain dance school was stunning. I left the concert wondering whether I had a mis-spent childhood. Should I have performed arts instead of ...
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BOOKS
Undiversified portfolio poses risks
The stock market should be a good case study of whether crowds have some wisdom, writes Barton Biggs in ‘Wealth, War & Wisdom’ ( www.wiley.com). Not wisdom on ...
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