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INVESTMENT WORLD
INSIGHT:
Wait…. Signals getting stronger
Telecom sector. Indian telecom companies have suddenly gone from being the institutional investors’ blue-eyed boys to last on the shopping list. Stocks such as Bharti Airtel are languishing close to their 52-week low even as the market is ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Index Outlook: Towards a new 2009 high
The correction from the 17,493-peak that threatened to bring the eight-month old party on our bourses to an end, turned chimeral once again as bulls pulled Sensex to a position of relative safety aided by some benign government-speak, ...
STOCKS:
Whirlpool of India: Buy
STOCKS:
ITC: Book Profits
Investors can consider booking profits in ITC shares, as the stock valuations (30 times trailing earnings, at Rs 254) seem to have outpaced the medium-term growth prospects. Forays into businesses less profitable than the core tobacco ...
IPOS:
Cox and Kings (India) — IPO: Invest
Investments with a long-term perspective can be considered in the initial public offering of the global tour operator Cox and Kings (C&K). The company’s strong brand image, wide geographical reach — both within the country ...
STOCKS:
Unity Infraprojects: Buy
Investors with a two-three-year perspective can buy the stock of Unity Infraprojects (Unity). Primarily a construction contractor, Unity’s project portfolio comprises infrastructure and civil contracts. At Rs 479, the stock trades at ...
STOCKS:
Lloyd Electric & Engineering: Buy
Sustained growth in the production of white goods, as suggested by the consumer durables index (in the IIP) indicates that air-conditioners (ACs) are back in demand, after a slump last year. This provides a good case for investing in the stock ...
STOCKS:
Chart Focus: Redington India (Rs 284.2): Buy
Investors with medium-term perspective can consider buying the stock of Redington India. It has been on a steady intermediate-term uptrend from its all-time low of Rs 80 recorded in late February. Moreover, the stock’s medium-term trend ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Sundaram BNP Paribas S.M.I.L.E.: Invest
Investors with a penchant for high risk can consider buying the units of Sundaram BNP Paribas S.M.I.L.E. (Small and Medium Indian Leading Equity) based on its three-year performance. It has generated a compounded annualised return of 18.6 ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Birla Sun Life Dynamic Bond Fund: Invest
The volatility in bond prices over the past two years has proved that debt funds require active management and a sense of timing on the part of the investor, not very different from equity funds. If interest rates are upward bound, investors ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Query Corner: Exit from Vishal Info and Austral Coke
I have purchased NMDC at Rs 398. Please let me know the medium and long-term outlook for this ...
INVESTMENTS:
Honing stock-selection skills
Investing in equities may seem like a simple business, but more often than not, it is more complex than one would imagine. The moot question is that with all of the hundreds of thousands of stocks available in the market for us to choose ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Index Strategy: Long straddle to play the volatility
Traders looking to play the volatility in the markets can consider setting a long straddle on Nifty 5,000 November series. This option spread can be set by buying Nifty 5,000 November put and call options, which are trading at Rs 91.5 and Rs ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Stock Strategy: Weak trend seen in Tech Mahindra, JP Associates
JP Associates (Rs 231): After hitting the key resistance at Rs 245, the JP Associates stock turned ...
CARS:
Insure before you zoom away
Are you excitedly counting days to take delivery of the new car you booked? But before you can unleash your creativity to choose the accessories to go with the car; don’t forget to select an insurance policy for your dream ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Realty targeting niche segments
First it was the Government that offered special tax benefits to women. Now, real-estate companies seem to be wooing them by reserving a special discount for women buyers. Meriton Group is offering to share the cost of registration if women ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Now, towards ‘affordable offices’
The last one year has been a revelation for the IT space developers and their tenants, the IT companies. The global economic slowdown woke them up as IT companies realised that the days of adding space irrespective of cost were over for ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Prefab structures gaining ground
Is there an alternative to conventional construction practices for building factories and commercial buildings that suffer from time and cost overruns? Will such structures withstand the vagaries of nature, including earthquakes, floods, and ...
INVESTMENTS:
Style and sector funds: Is passive exposure optimal?
A typical core-satellite portfolio carries large-cap index funds for the equity core and active style and sector funds for the satellite portion. One of our readers asked us this question: Can satellite portfolio carry style index funds ...
NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY:
Favourable winds
Given the reality of power shortages and the thrust on developing alternative sources of power, wind energy is gaining significance. One Indian name that stands out as a major enabler in the global wind energy market is ...
INCOME TAX:
Per diem allowances are not tax-free savings
An Indian working for an Indian company has been deputed to Botswana for a project. His salary is credited into his bank account in India and he is getting a per diem ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
More money in realty
Investors’ interest in the real estate sector has signalled the initial signs of revival with significant inflow from FIIs, according to Mr Neelabh Sanyal, ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Pivotals: Reliance Industries (Rs 2,116.7)
Reliance rallied strongly and closed above the key resistance if 2,100 indicated in our last column. We would however wait for a firm close above Rs 2,150 before assuming that the medium-term view has turned neutral. Presence of both the 21 ...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
Unsustainable competition?
With a host of new players entering the telecom space, growing competition has been yet another reason for investors to worry about the prospects of the existing players. The worry is that if all the new operators, such as Unitech Wireless, ...
ECONOMICS:
Blame it on NAcc!
The other day, I was looking at our household expenses and wondering where we could cut costs. For almost always, we spend a lot on casual visits to the mall and then regret the decision a week later. If you face a similar problem, ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Baskets of X
E-mail your guess before Tuesday ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Bull's Eye
E-mail your response by Tuesday ...
EVENTS:
Biz Quiz Answers
He is the brand ambassador of Revital (product made by Ranbaxy), Birla Sun Life Insurance and Fiat Grande ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Opportunities Funds — Mixed performance
The track record of ‘opportunities’ funds may not be that enviable, given that they have not beaten their benchmarks consistently. On a one-year basis, of the 14 funds in this category, only five (or about 40 per cent) beat ...
STOCK MARKETS:
When earnings surprise
Ever wondered what jargons such as “beat the street” and “trail the street” used by analysts and business journalists alike ...
BOOKS:
Four principles of useful indexes
All lovers, says the Bard in Troilus and Cressida, swear more performance than they are able and yet reserve an ability that they never perform, vowing more than the perfection of 10 and discharging less than the tenth part of ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Update
Axis Mutual Fund, sponsored by Axis Bank, has launched its first equity fund, Axis Equity Fund. This is a diversified equity fund benchmarked to the S&P CNX Nifty. The scheme is available in two options growth and ...
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