Portfolio

Sensex (18,008.1) It was a tightly fought battle in the narrow strip between 18,000 and 18,500 last week. The bulls can take heart from the fact ...

Sun TV (Rs 466.85): After remaining firm around Rs 500 level, the stock slipped significantly on Friday, towards its August 2010 lows. If the stock ...

The BSE Auto Index (closed at 8,571.4) comprises 11 companies that are associated with the auto industry. The companies are Tata Motors, Mahindra ...

The other day, I noticed a group of people (from the lower middle-class at best) huddled in a corner of an open field playing cards for stakes.

For some, there was a breather, while for others, the chickens came home to roost. However, all of this provided a lot of fodder for the folks at The ...

RIL rallied higher after testing its key support in line with our expectations to Rs 940. We stay with the view that the stock faces strong resistance ...

As far as the global investor preference for markets goes, the less risky ones are the developed markets such as United States, Canada, United ...

Following the open offer announcement on Monday, the stock skyrocketed with an upward gap, gaining 17 per cent accompanied by unusual volumes.

Ramanujam Sridhar, CEO, brand–comm dons many hats. He is a consultant, author, teacher and social activist among other things. Sridhar founded the ...

I would like to know the prospects of GMR Infrastructure bought at Rs 52 and Reliance Capital bought at Rs 700. S. Sankaran GMR Infrastructure (Rs ...

As you watched the Sensex zip past 20,000 in October, you told yourself – “I missed this one! But I'll wait for a correction”. Well, the wait is now ...

How do you usually select equity funds for your portfolio? If you simply look at the screen and pick up the top-ranking funds for the last one year, ...

The per capita cement consumption is only around 200 kg. This is expected to grow to over 300 kg in the next few years with infrastructure development and housing demand.

Even as demand is looking up, holding up the price line will be a challenge for manufacturers as supplies weigh in.

Stocks of cement companies were definitely not among preferred choices for investors last year. If you had invested in them in 2008/09 and made a gain ...

From January 1, Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements are mandatory for all investors, irrespective of the amount invested. What is KYC? KYC means ...

JM Financial Mutual Fund has announced conversion of its three-year close-ended scheme JM Core 11 Fund – Series 1, into an open-ended one, with ...

Check your portfolio twice a year and replace funds that trail their benchmarks over a three-year period.

With the stock market having corrected more than 10 per cent so far this year, Birla Sun Life Front Line Equity Fund, given its focussed exposure to ...

If value investing and occasional profit booking are what you prefer then diversified equity fund Tata Equity PE may fit your bill. This strategy ...

News reports that Mr U.K. Sinha would be succeeding Mr C.B. Bhave as SEBI Chairman has been welcomed by the mutual fund industry. Having an industry ...

What makes for a sustainable city? A seminar on an integrated approach for developing sustainable cities, Smart Eco Systems, will debate issues ...

For long, Coimbatore nursed an angst that despite the city's contribution to the Centre and State kitty by way of taxes, it did not get much in ...

As U.K Sinha takes the hot seat as the Chairman of the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) some time next month, he will lead an institution ...