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INVESTMENT WORLD
INSIGHT:
Long and short of capital gains tax
As the old adage goes, ‘Nothing is certain but death and taxes’. If stock market investing has caught your fancy, here too, you cannot avoid the taxman. Whether you are busy making money or burning your fingers out in the markets, ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Index Outlook
The incessant pounding of negative tidings from overseas pushed the Sensex back towards the 8000-mark last week. There are multiple swords hanging over the market’s neck: Detroit automakers tottering on the verge of bankruptcy, the ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
UTI Mahila Unit Scheme: Invest
UTI Mahila Unit Scheme is a good investment option for women investors looking for a debt-oriented fund as part of their core portfolio. The fund’s consistent performance across market cycles and superior return (in the debt category) ...
STOCKS:
Welspun Gujarat Stahl Rohren: Buy
Fresh investments with a two-three year perspective can be made in the stock of leading steel pipe manufacturer Welspun Gujarat Stahl Rohren ...
STOCKS:
NTPC: Buy
Investors looking for a defensive play in the current market can buy the stock of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), trading at Rs 150 (price earnings multiple of 13). The stock has managed the market storm relatively better than ...
STOCKS:
Indraprastha Gas: Buy
Not too many stocks have held their ground in the meltdown of the last three months. Indraprastha Gas Ltd. (IGL) is one of them. Compared to the 43 per cent erosion in the Sensex since mid-August, the IGL stock has shed just 7 per cent with ...
STOCKS:
MindTree: Buy
Investments with a one-two year perspective can be considered in the shares of MindTree, considering its relatively strong business positioning among mid-tier IT companies and reasonable ...
INVESTMENTS:
Focus on asset allocation
I am 36, working in a gulf country. My wife is a homemaker, aged 30. I have two daughters, aged five and three. I plan to retire on achieving my financial goals (by 2025). I started investing in mutual funds from 2004 and my risk appetite ...
INSIGHT:
Who shouldn’t invest in stocks
Stock market investing has turned out to be much more risky than most of us thought. The bull market that lasted till end-2007 had its moorings in strong earnings growth from India ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Magnum Emerging Businesses: Switch
Investors can consider exiting Magnum Emerging Businesses (MEB) Fund. The fund has consistently underperformed its benchmark BSE 500 during rallies as well as downturns such as the present one. Its aggressive positioning in the mid- and ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Query Corner: What the charts say
Please advise whether I can purchase Graphite India and Jyoti Structure at current ...
RETAILING:
Setting store by formats
Ever walked into, or left a store because of the way it was laid out, its merchandise and service? A store’s design, layout, mix and range of merchandise and pricing, spell its success. These parameters are a function of the store ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Mumbai pedestrians can walk safe in the sky
The marginalised pedestrian, who has seen footpaths disappear rapidly and very few subways surface, will soon have numerous aerial pathways to stride along in Mumbai. And, that too, away from roadside hawkers and the incessant honking ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Infosys
Infosys declined below the near-term support at Rs 1,180 to the intra-week trough at Rs 1,100. As explained earlier, the stock has key long-term support at Rs 1,100 and a sustainable trough can be formed here. The sideways move between Rs ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Tata Steel
Tata Steel recorded an intra-week trough at Rs 150 as indicated in this column last week. A rebound is possible from these levels that can take the stock higher towards Rs 190 or Rs 212. If the stock fails to surpass the first resistance, ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Maruti Suzuki
MUL tested the support at Rs 475 fleetingly on Thursday before reversing upward. But the short-term trend in the stock continues to be down. Immediate resistances in the week ahead would be at Rs 532 and then Rs 572. Reversal from either of ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
SBI
The 9 per cent surge in SBI in the second half of the trading session on Friday has made the short-term outlook positive for the ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
ONGC
ONGC moved lower as indicated in this column last week. But the decline halted near the support at Rs 600. The stock has key long-term supports at Rs 620 and below that at Rs 550. Though the lower support was tested on October 27, the ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Reliance Ind
Reliance Industries moved lower in line with our expectation towards the intra-week trough at Rs ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Crunch time for players, opportunity for buyers
While we have been living with the credit squeeze for several quarters now, September was a bizarre month in the global financial markets, with every day bringing one financial catastrophe after another. A number of global financial ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Performance in a rally: Variations among funds
It has been a very volatile market for the past seven weeks. Certain funds recorded a tremendous recovery during the relief rally, but have fallen with a thud over the last 10 days. Although these are very short-term trends, they offer clues ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Visakhapatnam witnessing a slump
There has been a marked slump in property prices for the past six months to one year in Visakhapatnam and locations between Visakhapatnam and Kakinada, said to hold high potential for industrial development ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Kochi eyes multi-level parking bays
Kochi is taking to multi-level parking systems to address the shortage of ...
TAXATION:
Tax relief on interest from accident tribunal
I am a widow aged 40 years. My husband passed away in a road accident in 2001. In 2007, Motor Accidents Claim Tribunal awarded me a compensation of Rs 7.22 lakh along with an interest of Rs 3,28,920. The insurance company issued a ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Nifty to remain volatile
Despite a sharp recovery on Friday, the Nifty November future closed a good 3.6 per cent lower over its previous week’s close of 2829 ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Fast growing retail markets
India has six of the 10 fastest growing retail markets in Asia, with Linking Road in Mumbai the most expensive retail high street in India, according to ‘Main Streets Across the World’, an annual report by Cushman ...
STOCK MARKETS:
BSE Sensex
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) is the oldest stock exchange in Asia. Established in 1875, under the Securities Contract Regulation Act, 1956, BSE rose to prominence in the last 133 years. In the1850s, stock brokers met under a banyan tree. ...
ECONOMICS:
Why food courts are crowded
The other day, I spent some time at a shopping mall where I observed interesting consumer behaviour. The food court was more crowded than the other shops. Why do people spend more money at the food court than at other ...
BOOKS:
Markets are only human
It is easy to turn away from the depressing charts and fret about the fickleness of markets or argue why at all we should be putting faith in them. But then markets are only human, reasons Eamonn Butler in The Best Book on the ...
INVESTMENTS:
Bond funds: Can single credit-class funds lower risk perception?
The Association of Mutual Funds of India (AMFI) has stated that bond funds, especially fixed-maturity plans, are invested in high-quality securities and that there is no cause for concern regarding their credit ...
ECONOMY:
India still insulated from global job cuts
For those who assumed that the current global crisis is restricted to banks and ‘financial world’ alone, here is a rude ...
HOUSING FINANCE:
When DINKs take a home loan
For the average home loan applicant, increase in interest rates and tenure would seem to be the principal worries in these troubled times. These are ‘economically challenging times’ to live in, and this holds true for those all ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Market ends negative
The stock market once again ended the week on a negative note, losing five per cent and closed at 8915 points. Following the record slump in US consumer prices, the Sensex plummeted to November 2005 levels during the week, on cues of ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Tech School: Exhaustion gaps
The third and final type of gap is exhaustion gap. From the name one can understand that this gap has something to do with the final stages, for that is when exhaustion sets in. Exhaustion gaps are the gaps which occur at the end of a strong up ...
MINERALS:
Iron ore — from strong to weak
January to July this year saw the prices of most metals touch new highs, with iron ore being no exception. Among the most widely used raw materials in the world, iron ore saw an unprecedented surge in demand in the run-up to the Chinese ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Prominent bulk deals on NSE and BSE
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STOCK MARKETS:
Bull's Eye
E-mail your response by Tuesday ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Baskets of X
E-mail your guess before Tuesday to ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Fund Talk
I am a retired professional aged 59 years. My investments in mutual funds are given below. I have invested between Rs 15,000 and Rs 20,000 in each of the funds. Due to the present volatile market conditions most of the investments in MF are ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Fund Update
Dutch financial services major Aegon and Religare Enterprises have decided to call off their joint venture. The AMC has got approval for setting up the mutual fund business recently from SEBI. Religare Aegon has recently ...
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