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INVESTMENT WORLD
INSIGHT:
With stocks, a five-year wait may not always pay
Not much can go wrong with your stock market investments if you are a ‘long-term’ investor, willing to stay put for five years. That is the investment wisdom often used to hard-sell stocks, equity funds or market-linked ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Index Outlook
Even as the battle raged on to free hostages from multiple locations in Mumbai, Indian stock markets functioned with remarkable calm, sending the message that such inhuman acts cannot browbeat financial markets. Sensex ended 66 points higher ...
STOCKS:
Axis Bank: Buy
STOCKS:
ABB: Sell
Investors can consider reducing exposure to the stock of ABB on rallies linked to the broad markets. Disappointing revenue growth for three consecutive quarters, pressure on profit margins, decline in revenue growth in its key segments ...
STOCKS:
SBI: Buy
Investors looking for a large-cap stock which will add value to their portfolio can consider accumulating the State Bank of India stock in declines. Beaten down valuations, strong financials in an extremely challenging macro environment, ...
STOCKS:
Bajaj Auto: Hold
The Bajaj Auto stock has fallen by about 40 per cent since the beginning of this month ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
ICICI Prudential Dynamic Plan: Hold
Investors can hold the units of ICICI Pru Dynamic Plan (ICICI Dynamic) given the fund’s ability to contain downsides and provide steady returns during market rallies. The fund has over one-, three- and five-year periods, bettered ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Franklin India Opportunities: Hold
Investors can retain their units of Franklin India Opportunities Fund based on the fund’s performance over a three-year period. The fund was launched in 2000 as a thematic fund (Franklin Internet Opportunities) but was restructured into ...
INSIGHT:
Tighten your purse strings
If anything, the financial whirlwind that has taken most global economies and markets by surprise has taught us all that making money is no easy game. But what would be more challenging from now would be to protect and build on that booty. ...
STOCKS:
Query Corner: What the charts say
Please let me know your comments on Swaraj Engines bought at Rs 240. ...
TAXATION:
Taxability on sale of assets
I had purchased a property in Pune. I have claimed the stamp duty, registration charges and the principal amount of housing loan as a deduction u/s 80C during assessment year 2008-09. For the same year I had also claimed interest ...
INVESTMENTS:
Challenging times for MFs
Mutual funds have been facing challenging times lately. A declining equity market has shrunk the asset base of most equity funds, the liquidity crunch has had corporates and institutional investors lining up with redemption demands, and ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Cheap finance: Key to housing
Remember the advertisement featuring an affluent young IT professional in a first job chipping in money to help out the father on the verge of ...
INFRASTRUCTURE:
Funding crisis in infrastructure
The last few months have seen renewed request for creating diverse avenues to fund the infrastructure sector in the country. Recent reports have it that the Government is looking at a Rs 50,000 crore-fund dedicated to lending for the ...
INVESTMENTS:
Of greed, ignorance and derivatives
Derivatives have been the villain in the Great Global Meltdown of 2008. Everyone is all praise for Warren Buffet’s ominous statement that “Derivatives are financial weapons of mass ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Income funds: Turn for the better
Higher yield on equity over the past few years persuaded investors to direct a bulk of their investment towards this asset class. The investment terrain for equity is not going to be as smooth as it was for the past few years. ...
TERRORISM:
Week in Pictures
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FINANCIAL MARKETS:
Citi rescue package terms ‘lenient’
Global banking giant Citigroup, with roots dating back to 1812, was rescued by the US Government last week with a billion-dollar package. The action aimed to strengthen its capital base and increase liquidity. The bank had earlier received ...
HOUSING FINANCE:
Lull in home loan refinancing
Banks taking over home-loans from housing finance companies, or vice versa, are not uncommon. But a lull appears to have set in with borrowers thinking twice about incurring foreclosure charges and processing fees all over again and ...
BOOKS:
Painless spending cuts
The mantra for trimming your costs is FIT, says Gregory Karp in Living Rich by Spending Smart: How to Get More of What you Really Want ( ...
INSIGHT:
Treatment of claims for bad debts
Volatile movement of the stock market this year has left many investors high and dry due to huge capital losses. The share broking community, too, is faced with twin dilemmas. One, a shrinkage in daily transaction volume and resultant ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Buyers hesitant to take the plunge
A weak sentiment and constant negative commentary have aggravated the problems of affordability and high mortgage rates in real estate, according to Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd.A report by the company, based on an interaction ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Andrew’s pitchfork
Some tools in technical analysis appear so simple that they are dismissed by most after a cursory glance. ‘Andrew’s pitchfork’ is one such tool that does not receive the attention that it deserves. This technical tool ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Maruti Suzuki
Maruti Udyog Limited closed the week on a flat note after fluctuating between Rs 490 and Rs 550 over the ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Reliance Industries
Reliance Industries Limited reversed below the resistance at Rs 1,200 and moved sideways between Rs 1,050 and Rs 1,200 ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Infosys
Infosys closed the week with a mild 4 per cent gain. A morning star candlestick pattern is being formed in the weekly chart that signals a short term ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
SBI
State Bank of India was unable to gather the momentum to move past Rs 1,245 and slid lower towards Rs 1,000 ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Tata Steel
Tata Steel stock moved in an extremely narrow band between Rs 145 and Rs 165 in the four trading sessions last ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
ONGC
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited too meandered sideways retaining the positive short term ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
NRI money props up Kochi realty
While the global economic slowdown gripping most parts of the developed world has had a cascading impact on the economy and real-estate prices across major Indian cities, reports suggest that the southern port city of Kochi has been ...
TRENDS:
I am ok, he isn’t ok!
I was fuming when it happened. The driver in front of me suddenly cut speed and attended to his mobile. When we both pulled up at the traffic signal, I let him know that it was wrong to talk on the phone while driving. A little while later, ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Prominent bulk deals in NSE and BSE
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STOCK MARKETS:
Cues trigger upmove
Terror strikes fail to tame Indian market. Following two consecutive weeks of negative closing, the BSE Sensex managed to end in the green at 9092 by gaining 177 points over the previous week amid unprecedented terrorist attacks at the ...
INVESTMENTS:
Asset allocation: Valuable despite correlation breakdowns
A reader of this column posed this question: Why engage in asset allocation and portfolio diversification when the current market has shown us that all asset classes tend to decline at the same time? The answer to this question has ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Home country bias
It should be noted that in times of uncertainty investors seek the familiar and tend to divest from markets that seem unfamiliar or uncertain, irrespective of the investment merit, which partly explains the selling by FIIs and the subsequent ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Update
Morgan Stanley Mutual Fund has announced that Morgan Stanley Growth Fund (MSGF), which was initially close-ended, would become an open-ended fund from January 2009. As per the regulatory guidelines, the unit-holders will be ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Bull's Eye
E-mail your response by Tuesday to: ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Baskets of X
E-mail your guess before uesday ...
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