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INVESTMENT WORLD
INSIGHT:
A toast to regulators
A toast needs to be raised the Indian stock exchanges and the market regulator who ensured that our markets functioned smoothly through the intense volatility in 2008, without resorting to ad-hoc measures adopted in other countries such ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Index Outlook
Stock prices suffered as a result of investor apathy last week as market participants took a much-needed break to indulge in some year-end revelry. Volumes plunged and Sensex ended 7 per cent lower. Talks of yet another stimulus package ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Sensex outlook for 2009
The word ‘unprecedented’ crops up often when we review the movement of the Indian markets in ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
HDFC High Interest Fund: Invest
Gilt funds have been top performers over the past quarter, as a series of cuts in interest rates and lower inflation expectations triggered a spike in gilt prices. However, with the yield on the ten-year gilt already down to 5.7 per cent, ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Sundaram BNP Paribas Tax Saver: Invest
Investors can buy the units of Sundaram BNP Paribas Tax Saver (Sundaram Tax) considering its long-term track record in delivering impressive returns and ability to ...
STOCKS:
BGR Energy Systems: Buy
BGR Energy Systems, an engineering procurement and construction (EPC) player in the power sector, has bagged some of its biggest orders in the last two quarters, assuaging concerns about slowing order flow suggested by key macro ...
STOCKS:
Power Finance Corporation: Invest
Investors with low-risk appetite can consider the Power Finance Corporation (PFC) stock, as the stock is trading at attractive valuations after being beaten down in the stock market crash. With markets in a corrective phase, investors should ...
STOCKS:
Shoppers’ Stop: Hold
Shoppers’ Stop, a premium retailer with a pan-India presence, has seen a deteriorating financial performance in recent quarters. Currently priced at Rs. 174.7, this stock is unlikely to deliver in the coming quarters. While holding ...
INVESTMENTS:
Only safe options scored
No place to hide. That’s the expression that best captures what investors went through in 2008, easily the most traumatic year in recent memory for active ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Nifty future may make another attempt to rise
Trading volumes lowest on Friday. The Nifty future failed to sustain the rally last week. It ended sharply lower, dipping well below the crucial 3000-mark to end at ...
OVERSEAS BORROWINGS:
FCCB: Double-edged sword
Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCBs) have been in the news for most part of this year, thanks to the global financial turmoil. First, FCCBs were a problem due to the mounting forex losses of Indian ...
INTERVIEW:
Go invest!
At the turn of the New Year, V Ramesh, CEO, Prabhudas Lilladher Financial Services Pvt Ltd, has a cheerful message for investors. He talks about why he thinks the market fall presents an opportunity rather than a ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Query Corner: What the charts say
I am holding shares of Rolta India purchased at Rs 275 and TTML bought at Rs 29. Kindly tell me the future of these stocks. ...
INCOME TAX:
Relief on second housing loan
I am residing in a flat at Dwarka, New Delhi. I had taken a housing loan for purchase of this flat and am claiming deduction in respect of the interest and principal repayments towards the loan. I have taken another housing loan ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Boom, bust… to hope
2008 saw real-estate hit a new low — 2009 promises a revival. The year 2008 will be remembered by the real-estate sector for the swing in fortunes — starting on a high note that continued from 2007, the market changed dramatically as ...
ECONOMY:
Think before you spend!
“There are fewer Friday office parties” complains Pradeep Balasubramanium, manager in a consultancy firm. Over the past few months, ‘cost cutting, pay cuts, job losses’ — words we thought would apply only to ...
CREDIT CARDS & DEBIT CARDS:
It’s rat race for bonus points!
My friend holds a customer card at a bookstore that will entitle him to accumulate 1,000 bonus points for certain value of in-store purchases. He can redeem the bonus points for a free book from a list of recent arrivals. He frequented ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Valuations: Where India stands
‘To shrink is in’ suggest the global events of 2008, be it the shrinkage in GDP growth, liquidity, exports, industrial production or valuations. The country with the most promising growth story - China – boasted of a ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Reliance Ind
RIL eased lower and closed with 10 per cent loss last week. An evening star pattern is evident in the weekly chart that implies that the short-term trend has reversed from the recent peak at Rs 1,408. Presence of both the 50 as well as the ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Maruti Suzuki
Maruti Suzuki moved contrary to our expectation last week; reversing from an intra week peak at Rs 559 and closing with a 7 per cent loss. Immediate support for the stock is at Rs ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Infosys
The sharp decline recorded on Friday resulted in Infosys closing the week with a 6 per cent ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Tata Steel
Tata Steel meandered sideways for the second successive week. Immediate short-term supports are at Rs 202 and then Rs 180. If the first support holds, it will imply that the stock can unfold the third leg of its move from December 2 trough. ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
SBI
SBI moved in a narrow range between Rs 1,200 and Rs 1,325 last week. The short-term trend continues to be up and the shallow correction witnessed last week implies that there can be one more leg higher to Rs 1,380 or Rs 1,425 in the ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
ONGC
This stock was unable to surpass the resistance offered by the 50-day moving average and moved to the lower end of its short-term trading band at Rs ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
‘Affordable’, the new mantra
As the real estate sector faces pricing pressures in a tough business cycle, most developers are evaluating opportunities in ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Selling options: Profiting from negatively-skewed strategies
Desperate times call for desperate measures. That is, perhaps, one of the reasons why many novice traders are now resorting to selling options. This article discusses such short trade set-ups. It also shows how option sellers can ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Weak earnings expectations drag indices
Stock indices remained under sustained pressure in the week as fears over possibility of below-par third quarter results rose , on the back of fall in advance tax payments made by ...
INVESTMENTS:
Common structured products: An overview
One of the key features of the evolving financial industry landscape has been the rising complexity of its components, and its processes. This has been in response to the increasing realisation that no two investors are the same, and neither ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
2009 will be better than last year
The Indian markets have suffered a lot in 2008 because of concentrated selling by FIIs, which has its roots in the global economic crisis. Till such time there is clarity on how the global economy will cope with de-leveraging, it will ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Point and Figure charts
The point and figure chart analysis was in vogue much before computers were invented. Point and figure charts can be better understood by comparing them with bar ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Whither growth?
As the financial turmoil continues to roil the world, will India manage to keep its head above water in 2009? Well, the series of downgrades in growth projections for India in recent months suggest that we may be in for a period of muted ...
HOUSING FINANCE:
NHB’s refinance drive
The National Housing Bank has launched the Rs 4,000 crore refinance facility that the Reserve Bank of India had announced earlier this month to support home loans for ...
BOOKS:
Tension between profitability, growth
Two professors who studied the performance of about 6,000 large public companies throughout the world for over 15 years from 1990 came up with a startling finding: only one in four was able to show sustained profitable growth over any ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Equity Linked Savings Schemes — Lagging open-end funds
The steep fall in the market in 2008 has taken its toll on the diversified and ELSS (equity linked saving scheme) mutual fund schemes. Average one-year declines for both categories were above 50 per cent. However, ELSS schemes have tended to ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Bull's Eye
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STOCK MARKETS:
Baskets of X
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ECONOMY:
Snapshots 2008
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MUTUAL FUNDS:
Update
UTI Mutual Fund has declared dividend under the following schemes. UTI Bond Fund( 4 per cent),UTI G-Sec Investment Plan( 3 per cent ),UTI Gilt Advantage Fund LTP(4 per cent) and UTI Gilt Advantage Fund- PF Plan(4 per ...
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