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INVESTMENT WORLD
INSIGHT:
Midcaps: From mania to phobia?
Not so long ago, a mid-cap bias in your equity portfolio was seen as a sure-fire way to outperform the stock market. This year’s long-drawn out correction has, however, changed that. Mid-cap stocks have suffered a greater blow than ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Index Outlook
Vigorous fire-fighting is on across the globe with central banks slashing interest rates blindly and stimulus packages being doled out all around in a bid to reduce the impact of recession. If reaction of equity markets in respective countries ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
ICICI Prudential Gilt Fund: Invest
With inflation sliding more quickly than expected and interest rates declining across the world, the pressure continues to build on Indian policymakers to cut rates ...
STOCKS:
Titan Industries: Hold
The Titan Industries stock has remained fairly resilient to the recent meltdown thanks to the company’s improving financial performance and strong focus on ...
STOCKS:
Britannia Industries: Buy
For investors seeking a defensive option in choppy markets, the stock of Britannia Industries is an attractive buy. With a product basket comprising biscuits, bakery and dairy products and brands straddling several price points, ...
STOCKS:
UTV Software Communications: Buy
Investors can stay invested in UTV Software Communications, an integrated entertainment company that spans movie production, content, airtime sales and gaming, considering the stock’s reasonable valuation levels and bright ...
STOCKS:
E.I.D Parry (India): Buy
Sugar appears to be one of the few sectors that offers potential for strong earnings growth combined with good visibility over the next two years, as the economy enters a lean phase. With the sugar cycle likely to turn from a surplus to ...
STOCKS:
Query Corner: What the charts say
I have shares of Murudeshwar Ceramics purchased at Rs 80 per share. What are the short and long-term prospects of this ...
INVESTMENTS:
Window of opportunity in affordable housing
The classic response to a ‘demand slowdown’ is to cut prices in the short term, lower profits, and encourage demand to retain the market share. But if there is no scope for price reduction, another strategy would be ...
INVESTMENTS:
Alternatives to FDs
Most investment products have delivered negative returns in recent times. And, investors are sitting tight on cash, not knowing where to invest. Given this scenario, a quick look at various debt instruments which seem attractive at this ...
INCOME TAX:
Tax on NRI interest income
I am a housewife. My husband is a non-resident Indian and has been sending me money regularly. I have been investing the money in nationalised banks in fixed deposits. Is the interest income chargeable in my hands? Should I apply for ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Malls partner with retailers
The relationship between mall developers and retailers is evolving from that of a buyer-seller to that of greater co-operation and understanding to overcome the difficult ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Infosys
It was a disappointing show by Infosys last week and the stock was unable to move beyond Rs 1,300; tumbling to Rs 1,121 instead. Immediate support for the stock is at Rs 1,100 and below at Rs 1,050. But as we have been reiterating, the stock ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Maruti Suzuki
MUL recorded a very sharp reversal in the early part of last week that took it slightly below the near-term support at Rs ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Tata Steel
There was a strong reversal from the trough at Rs 146 last week and contrary to our expectation, the stock moved higher to the peak at Rs ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
SBI
State Bank of India moved in line with our expectation, sliding down to an intra-week trough at Rs 995 and gaining more than 20 per cent from ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Reliance
RIL remained in the range between Rs 1,050 and Rs 1,200, within which it was confined the previous week as well. The short-term trend in the stock is indeterminate and it would be best to wait for a breakout beyond either boundary ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
ONGC
The positive short-term trend was nullified by the sharp decline recorded last Tuesday. The stock could move lower to Rs 621 or Rs 598 in the near term. But the key long-term support band between Rs 570 and Rs 600 will continue to attract ...
FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS:
Prominent bulk deals on NSE and BSE
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STOCK MARKETS:
Mid-cap Minutes
In terms of price to earnings multiple, Sensex has always enjoyed a premium over the Midcap index. That, however, was not the case in April-May 2006 and Dec-Jan 2008, when the mid-cap valuations overtook or, at the ...
ECONOMICS:
Suffering from optimism bias?
The torrential rains that lashed Chennai last fortnight had its part to play on our house as well. Rain water has never entered the inner gates since the house was built. But it finally happened and we were unprepared. You can attribute ...
INVESTMENTS:
Trading in commodities
Need a break from stocks, mutual funds, FDs and bonds as investment options? Then why not look at commodities? Well, commodity trading is not new to India. After the 30-year ban was lifted in 2005, futures trading in commodities has caught ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
RBI package welcome, but…
The real estate sector has welcomed the Reserve Bank of India’s support measures for the real estate sector but some of the leading developers feel more is needed to rejuvenate the market. The RBI has brought down the ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Set a Bull Call next week
Option traders can consider setting a Bull Call spread on Nifty for the coming week. This can be done by buying a call option on Nifty while simultaneously selling another Nifty call at a higher strike price. We suggest traders to set this ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Bull's Eye
E-mail your response by Tuesday ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Baskets of X
E-mail your guess before Tuesday ...
INTERVIEW:
‘ULIPs not for short-term or active investors’
Their costs are high and they aren’t as transparent as mutual funds. Those are the charges often levelled against unit- linked insurance plans, the popular market-linked products marketed by insurance companies. But Mr V. Srinivasan, CFO ...
INTERVIEW:
‘In handling the crisis, fund managers are not solely to blame’
Mr D. K. Aggarwal, a chartered accountant, CMD of SMC Comtrade and MD of SMC Wealth Management Services shares his views on asset allocation and equity investing in the present market conditions. He also talks of ...
INVESTMENTS:
Know your debt fund options
The equity market has belied investors’ hope of a quick revival, what with the correction that started in January 2008, showing no clear signs of waning. However, given the interest rate movement over this period, those who had invested ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Exchange-traded interval fund: Lowering close-end discount, open-end cash drag
Recent reports suggest that SEBI is revising rules to make it mandatory for all close-end funds to list on the stock ...
INVESTMENTS:
Tata Motors 3-year FD looks attractive
Fixed deposits offered by Tata Motors may be a good investment option for investors looking to park excess funds for three years. The company is accepting a minimum deposit of Rs 20,000 with additional amounts in multiples of Rs 10,000 for ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Why timing may make you miss the bus
We are currently in a market environment that has been variously described as “unprecedented and “extreme”. There has been sufficient volatility in the market to make even a seasoned investor pause. Equity ...
INVESTMENTS:
It pays to ask the right questions
Can you imagine someone selling a financial product that has actually been withdrawn from market? Read on, if you want to avoid being taken for a ‘financial’ ride. A month ago, I received a call from a person identifying ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Nifty future likely to stage a recovery
The NSE Nifty November future declined 2.18 per cent to end last week at 2711.1 against its previous week’s close of 2771.6. It also surrendered its premium in the process and closed at a discount of about three points over ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Weak global cues subdue market sentiments
Last week was that of mixed feelings for stock market investors. Even as the ‘heads began rolling’ in the South Block, the reason much-touted for the brief surge in the market earlier last week, the euphoria soon fizzled out ...
METALS:
Copper — from red to deep red?
The current economic crisis and the resultant slowdown in demand are the primary reasons for the downswing in prices of copper. Copper led the base metals price rally between 2004 and mid-2008. It touched its peak of $8,523 a tonne in the ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Fund Talk
I am 27 years old. I have invested in the following mutual funds. SBI One India Rs 15,000, SBI Magnum Contra Rs10,000, Reliance Growth Rs 10,000, Fidelity International Opportunities Rs.10,000, Tata Indo Global Rs 10,000, DBS ...
BOOKS:
Middle class, the saving class
The new Indian middle class is relatively heterogeneous; it includes “highly educated academics as well as millions of people who earn their living in the informal sector of the Indian economy,” observes Dietmar Rothermund in ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Update
SEBI has announced that investors would no longer be allowed early exit from close ended mutual funds and have asked the fund houses to list the close ended funds on the stock ...
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