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INVESTMENT WORLD
INSIGHT:
The numbers don’t add up
Satyam-gate. The Satyam fiasco has been written about from several angles — corporate governance, auditor omissions and commissions, and the plight of the employees. But with a depletion of 82 per cent in the stock’s value from the ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Index Outlook
Just when it appeared as if the Sensex would slip past the 10,500 mark, it was yanked back by the misdoings of Mr Ramalinga Raju. Bears exploited the situation to the hilt, bludgeoning stocks across sectors, sometimes for the most absurd ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Kotak 30: Invest through SIP
Investors with a two-three-year time horizon can consider adding Kotak 30 to their ...
STOCKS:
Nestle India: Buy
The Nestle India stock is a good investment option for those who would like to own a defensive stock in volatile markets. Nestle’s high profitability and return ratios and the healthy cash flows make it a likely beneficiary from ...
STOCKS:
REC: Buy
Investors with a low-risk appetite can consider taking exposures in the State-owned Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) stock as it is trading at attractive valuations. High demand for funds on the back of huge capacity-addition targets, ...
INVESTMENTS:
Make your debut — now
If you are young and want to make it big in the stock markets, the timing couldn’t be better to begin your equity sojourn. Entering the world of equities at a time when some of the ‘biggies’ in the investment community ...
STOCKS:
Koutons Retail (India): Hold
In a world of tightening consumer expenditure, value retailers are placed better than their premium counterparts. In the stock markets, Koutons Retail, a value apparel retailer, has fared relatively better than its peers, losing just about ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Query Corner: What the charts say
Cairn India (Rs 167.70): In our previous review of Cairn India last September, we had expected the stock to recover from the long-term support-band between Rs 180 and Rs ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Canara Robeco Equity Diversified: Hold
Unit holders can retain their holdings in Canara Robeco Equity Diversified Fund based on the long term performance. The fund, having trailed the category average over its initial years, has managed to improve its performance over the past ...
INTERVIEW:
‘Logical to grow via bancassurance’
ULIP products are a lot more transparent about their investments than traditional products, says Mr T.R. Ramachandran, CEO and MD, Aviva Life Insurance. Taking off after a 19-year stint with Citibank, Mr ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
PPP, key to affordable housing
Tamil Nadu Government officials and private sector players in real-estate are acknowledging that Public Private Partnership (PPP) in housing is the way forward to meet the challenges of housing for all, particularly the economically ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Reliance Ind
RIL rose to an intra-week high of Rs 1,384 before recording the giant engulfing candle in the weekly chart. The key near-term support at Rs 1,200 was breached as the stock declined to Rs 1,092 on Friday. Near-term resistance would be at Rs ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Tata Steel
Tata Steel could not move past our first target at Rs 258 last week. But the reversal from this peak has been relatively mild. The short-term trend can continue to be classified as sideways. A conclusive close below Rs 200 is needed to turn ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
SBI
State Bank of India reversed lower from our first target at Rs 1,380 and declined to the stop-loss level at Rs 1,190 indicated last week. The presence of both the 50 and 200-day moving averages in the zone between Rs 1,200 and Rs 1,250 makes ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
ONGC
ONGC reversed lower from Rs 734 last week with an evening star pattern in the daily candlestick chart. Failure to move past the resistance at Rs 740 reaffirms the negative medium-term view for the chart. Resumption of the down move from the ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Infosys
Infosys is one of the rare few stocks among the pivotals that have closed with a positive weekly close. The stock gained over 5 per cent last week to form a morning star pattern in the weekly candlestick ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Maruti Suzuki
MUL was untouched by the mayhem in the markets last week; recording a weekly gain of over 7 per ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Prominent bulk deals on NSE & BSE
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:
IT: A more vulnerable sector?
The best in practices — best disclosures, best corporate governance, best presentation of financials and high degree of corporate social responsibility. If there is one sector that qualifies on each one of these parameters in India, it ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Mid-cap funds: Huge value erosion
The year 2008 was bad for equity as an asset class. Irrespective of its market cap and fundamentals, almost every stock listed on the bourses bore the brunt of the bear onslaught (except perhaps, consumer non-durables). Growth sectors ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
A case for special residential zones
Real-estate developers are urging both the Central and State governments to encourage creation of special residential zones (SRZs) on the lines of special economic zones, as such a move is seen spurring ...
INCOME TAX:
Get rebate on certain medical expenses
(Mail your queries to ...
CORPORATE:
Corporate frauds over the years
Enron: In early 2000, Enron moved away from its core business (electricity and natural gas) to trading in derivatives. It believed that the profits from derivatives could be used to mask the losses of its primary ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Dewan Housing Finance cuts rates
Dewan Housing Finance Corporation, a leading private sector housing finance company, has cut interest rates on its loans — effective for new and existing customers, according to a press ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Lulu’s Kochi project on track
India’s largest multiplex/hypermarket/hotel and airlines tower is slated to open in Kochi at the end of the ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Self-justification
The confession by Satyam’s CEO of an accounting fraud led to an intriguing reaction from one of my friends. He commented on how Mr Raju had the guts to confess and that other CEOs who engaged in similar fraud did not muster the courage ...
BOOKS:
Don’t fall asleep at the ethical wheel
A common human flaw is that for love, money, or other ‘good’ reasons, we often violate our ethics; recognising this failing in us is the beginning of our journey, say Ronald A. Howard and Clinton D. Korver in Ethics for ...
SOFTWARE:
When companies go bust, employees suffer the most
Satyam Computer Services, a company that employs half-a-lakh people, is in deep crisis now, after it became evident that the company’s numbers were being falsified over the past several years. Employees are now keeping their ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
SIP moderate fear; set-up equity tilts
Credit defaults, bankruptcies and now corporate governance - or the lack of it - have all injected extreme fear into the market. Small wonder then that more investors are now inclined towards bond funds than ever before. Such an ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Downtrend may continue for Nifty futures
Despite a promising start in the New Year, the stock markets have now tumbled back, wiping away the entire gains of 2009, following the ‘Satyam ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Satyam fiasco brings back the bears
The first full-week trading in New Year 2009 witnessed heavy selling pressure in the Sensex, following gains made earlier in the week. The benchmark index Sensex started the week on a positive note by crossing the psychological level of 10000 ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Tech School
Most technical analysts would be familiar with the widely-used Japanese candlesticks charts. But the wise-men of ancient Japanese devised at least two more methods of chart construction that are just as useful in gauging the trend and ...
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
From the tables you published last week, I saw that some gilt funds had given a return of as much as 40 per cent in 2008. Can I switch from equity funds into gilt funds to recoup some of the losses I made last ...
STOCKS:
Tulip Telecom: Buy
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Update
JM Financial Mutual Fund has revised the exit load structure under JM Income Fund. The scheme will charge an exit load of one per cent for amounts less than or equal to Rs one crore, if redeemed within 365 days from the date ...
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