INVESTMENT WORLD
INSIGHT:
Some bright spots amid gloom
India Inc in SEPTEMBER QUARTER. The 30 per cent rise in sales and 12 per cent profit growth managed by leading Indian companies (320 of the BSE 500) for the September quarter may only reaffirm the gloomy earnings picture that the market is ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Index Outlook
Forced smiles gave way to genuine cheer as stock prices zipped upwards to light up the Diwali sky last Tuesday. A consensus seems to be building up across the globe that the selling had been over-done and some respite is in order. ...
STOCKS:
Indian Bank: Buy
Investors can consider accumulating the stock of Indian Bank, as the bank is backed by good fundamentals, robust advances and operating profit growth. The stock trades at a modest valuation, of about one time its September 30 book value and ...
STOCKS:
Titagarh Wagons: Buy
Investments with a two-three year perspective can be considered in Titagarh Wagons (TWL), a leading private sector wagon ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
HDFC Growth Fund: Hold
Investors can retain their units in HDFC Growth Fund, considering its improving performance picture and ability to contain downside during ...
STOCKS:
Punj Lloyd: Buy
Punj Lloyd’s financial performance over the last two quarters amply demonstrates its ability to weather tough macro-economic conditions. The current trend of softening commodity prices and clear signals on interest rates softening from ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Query Corner: What the charts say
Kindly advise me on the outlook for Arvind Mills purchased at Rs 35 and Gujarat NRE Coke at Rs 74 for a horizon of 15 ...
RETAILING:
New retailers: Store rollouts on track
The Indian retail story is much talked about and discussed. With the build-up of mall space in the country, increased spending and resilient demand, retailing promises to be an attractive sector. Major retailers have, therefore, aimed at ...
INVESTMENTS:
Wanna buy a home in US?
If you’ve dreamt of being a home owner in the land of opportunity, now may be the perfect time to realize your ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Chennai sees correction in some pockets
Following a boom , the realty sector is now hit by lower repayment capacity and higher borrowing costs, which have affected house buying. Developers across the country are facing lower demand, slower sales and reduced and expensive ...
ECONOMY:
The impact of rupee depreciation
The Indian rupee has depreciated by about 20 per cent since April and breached the psychological mark of Rs 50 recently. An outflow of funds from the stock markets has been the key reason for the rupee erasing all its gains seen over the ...
CORPORATE:
Reading the scorecard
The earnings scorecard for 320 companies from the BSE-500 index suggests that most companies have increased their earnings, albeit at a slower pace. Even as revenue growth remained strong on the back of an inflationary ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Nifty future likely to witness volatile trading
For the first time in many weeks, Indian bourses chose to end on a positive note on Friday. Though the markets began with a negative bias on Monday, short covering and bottom-fishing by market participants helped score gains for the ...
INCOME TAX:
Share trading gains: Speculative or biz?
I am a salaried employee and a regular tax assessee. I indulge in share trading sporadically. In the current year I have made profits in intra-day trading in the futures market. The trades were through a registered share broker ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Building housing the ‘Kalavara’ way
It has all the makings to emerge as yet another ‘Kerala model’, this time in the property development sector that remains largely out of reach for the lower end of the social ...
URBAN DEVELOPMENT:
Mangalore spruces up main roads
If you happen to be in Mangalore these days, you will see most of the arterial roads in the city either closed for the movement of vehicles or allowed for partial vehicular movement. The reason is the road improvement activity taking place ...
INVESTMENTS:
Market and you
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INVESTMENTS:
Strategic versus tactical asset allocation
Most investments tend to do well with no apparent science in bull phases. But the science of investing comes to the fore while managing investments either in a bear phase or in times of extreme volatility.Different asset classes may peak ...
INVESTMENTS:
Buy with care
Buying a house is probably the single largest investment that most people make in their life time. With the investment involving anywhere between Rs 30 lakh and a few crore rupees, there is a significant amount of the ...
INVESTMENTS:
Dividend yield portfolio
In the heady days of the bull market, selecting stocks with a high dividend yield meant picking up businesses with only modest growth prospects. Stocks with a high dividend yield (dividend per share/market price), and funds that ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Diwali spirit lifts market
The week that began on a festive note ended leaving many investors happy. The Sensex, after many weeks of being on the losing side, posted a handsome 12.5 per cent gains during the week. The weekly gain however had its share of ups and ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Reliance Ind
Reliance Industries tested the long-term trendline at Rs 970 last Monday and rebounded sharply to close the week with 35 per cent gain. The giant engulfing candle in the weekly chart is a positive ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Maruti Suzuki
MUL could not escape the broad sell-off in the markets last week. It however recovered from our second short-term support at Rs 475 and moved sideways ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Infosys
Despite the slight wobble on Monday, it recovered from the low at Rs 1,161 and went on to 11 per cent weekly gain. The stock has now moved close to the upper boundary of our short-term range between Rs 1,150 and Rs ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Tata Steel
Tata Steel declined to our first support at Rs 156 before rebounding last ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
SBI
SBI tested the support at Rs 1,000 briefly, as indicated in our last column, to record an intra-week trough at Rs 991. We reiterate that the Rs 1,000-level is an important long-term support and a significant trough is possible ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
ONGC
The sharp decline last Monday pulled ONGC towards the long-term support at Rs 570 indicated in this column last week. As explained earlier, this is a key long-term support for the stock. The bullish hammer pattern formed in the weekly ...
CARS:
How the decoy enables an apples-oranges comparison
A person I know is in the business of selling pre-owned cars. Sometime back, as a witness to a transaction at his shop, I realised how the business owner effectively applied behavioural psychology to selling cars. He used ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Prominent bulk deals on NSE and BSE
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INVESTMENTS:
Index funds vs diversified funds — Ways to beat market
The steep decline in the equity market in 2008 has wiped out a large part of investors’ wealth, irrespective of whether they took the direct investment route or went through mutual funds. In a volatile market such as the present ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Magnum Multiplier Plus: Hold
The traditional mandate of the diversified equity funds is to remain invested in equities at all times. Those who strictly followed the mandate and remained fully invested over the past year have seen their NAVs lose substantial value. Funds ...
INVESTMENTS:
Enhanced Indexing: Active management with less risk
Many investors want to take exposure to stocks that constitute the S&P CNX Nifty, as these stocks would typically lead the market during its upturn. Index funds provide a low-cost exposure to such stocks. The problem, however, is that ...
INVESTMENTS:
Warren Buffett, the sober saviour
Currently, the global financial market is undergoing a turmoil never seen after the Great Depression in the late 1920s. Famous names and outstanding institutions are getting wiped ...
INVESTMENTS:
Bubble explained
If you have been wondering how the bubble works, be it in the economy or the stock market, the story of this tiny island which has only three inhabitants, two Re 1 notes in circulation and a piece of land will help. This is what happened to ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Bullish? Set a bull call spread
Option traders can consider setting a bull-call spread on Nifty for the coming ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Baskets of X
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STOCK MARKETS:
Bull's Eye
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MUTUAL FUNDS:
Fund Talk
I became a resident Indian five years ago. I am 60 years old. I started investing in mutual funds four years ago to get tax-free income comparable to bank interest. This worked well till January 2008. I did not exit from any fund ...
BOOKS:
Misinformation may come disguised as straight tips
All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the stock exchanges on earth cannot eliminate ignorance, greed, fear and hope from the human animal, declares Edwin Lefèvre in Reminiscences of a Stock Operator ...
NEW FUND OFFER:
Update
SBI Mutual Fund has launched SBI Debt Fund Series-90 Days Fund-31, a close-ended debt scheme. The NFO closes on November 3. The minimum investment is Rs 5,000.The fund will not charge any entry load; however, an exit load of 1 ...
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