Chart Focus: Nifty IT Index Chart Focus: Nifty IT Index The Nifty IT index tumbled 2.46 per cent on Friday to close at 15,550, breaking below a key support at 16,000. The index has been on a short-term ...
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Nifty Call: Go long on a rally above 11,575 levels Nifty Call: Go long on a rally above 11,575 levels Nifty 50 July Futures (11,544)After a gap-down open and initial decline, the Sensex and the Nifty began to recover from their intra-day low. Both the ...
Day Trading Guide for July 9, 2019 Day Trading Guide for July 9, 2019 Given below are supports and resistances for Nifty 50 futures and seven key stocks that can help in your intra-day trading:₹2407 • HDFC ...
Indian Bank (₹241.2): Sell Investors with a short-term perspective can sell the stock of Indian Bank at current levels. The stock tumbled 6 per cent accompanied by above average ...
Why did FPIs spook market on additional surcharge? Will issue a clarification soon on the issue, says government
Nifty Call: Sell in rallies with a fixed stop-loss Nifty 50 July Futures (11,636)Taking bearish cues from the Asian markets, the Sensex and the Nifty began the session with a gap-down open and ...
₹80,000-cr cut in off-balance sheet borrowing may be an optical illusion Slashing of FCI borrowings by ₹87,000 crore may have to be made up before fiscal year-end
Weekly Trading Guide Uptrend gains momentum in SBI (₹370.6)The upmove in SBI is gaining momentum. The stock surged 2.7 per cent and closed in the green for the third ...
Farm Reforms A damp squib for rural India Allocation for the Rural Water Mission is up, but is that all the country needs?
Budget 2019 Not much cheer for metals industry The metal industry’s expectations from the Budget had included a reduction in customs duties on raw materials, and an increase in those on finished ...
Bullion Cues Gold loses sheen with strong US jobs data Back home, rise in import duty lets gold futures spike
Realty check PSBs: Not much to bank onThe market seemed unimpressed by the ₹70,000 crore of capital infusion into PSBs, proposed by the Budget for FY20. PSB stocks ...
Bandu's blockbusters On April 1, four years back, piqued by the incessant jokes in the village at his expense, Bandu Barve decided he’d had enough. It was time for him to ...
Cadila Healthcare: In bad shape - Sell USFDA observations on contamination at a plant, and lack of near-term blockbuster products have taken a toll on the stock
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Taking Cover Creating an environment for insurance growth The Budget focuses on the fundamentals needed for better insurance penetration
Your Taxes It looks like the IT department is revising Form ITR-2 capital gains schedule to enable reporting of multiple equity/MF transactions (grandfathering).
Investing Insights Decoding Budget sops for NPS and MF investors The Budget has made the entire 60 per cent of the withdrawable NPS corpus, tax-free
Budget 2019 for investors and taxpayers Nirmala Sitharaman presented the first Budget of the Modi 2.0 government amid much anticipation and expectation. What’s in it for you — as a taxpayer and as an investor? Here are some key takeaways
Index Outlook Indices range-bound, with negative bias The bellwether indices show signs of weakness. Tread with caution
Oberoi Realty: On favourable ground Strong market presence and healthy prospects are positives for the company
Disinvestment: The lure of the break The changeThe Centre has increased its target of raising funds by disinvestment to ₹1.05-lakh crore in the Budget, up from ₹90,000 crore in the ...
Getting past fiscal constraints to boost growth will be critical Apart from reviving investments, the Centre must push for structural reforms
My Five: Water to flush toxins and music to calm the mind Amit SharmaFounder and CEO, eExpedise Healthcare1 I have been a fitness enthusiast since my college days, an ...
Small but ambitious: Alembic has a big American dream The 112-year-old company may be a late entrant but it is focussing on its strengths
Health alert on measles outbreak Measles outbreaks continue to spread rapidly around the world, according to early reports provided to the ...
Coming up: Oxytocin case enters final lap More than a year after the Government sought to ban the private production and promotion of Oxytocin, ...
How to show your trading and F&O income in the tax returns? BL Research BureauFor traders, aside from predicting the stock market, reporting income from intra-day trading ...
Alkem Laboratories: The right remedy Focus on high-margin chronic products and key launches should drive growth
Weekly Trading Guide SBI (₹290.9)After tumbling over 21 per cent in five weeks, SBI got a breather last week. However, the broader ...
ICICI Prudential All Seasons Bond: Ride on the rate movements The dynamic bond fund has consistently delivered across rate cycles
Woodstock music festival: Fifty years on Seventy two hours of music with 400,000 people in attendance. Woodstock Music & Art Fair opened in a lush farm ...
The Beloved Toni Morrison A tribute to Toni Morrison (1931-2019), the African-American writer who died on August 5
Campus politics in Kerala and its deep gender bias Women’s empowerment is a mere slogan in the student organisations of the Left parties in Kerala
Quiz on scandals On August 17, 21 years ago, then US President Bill Clinton admitted in taped testimony of his physical ...
Dealing with fake influencers Rising fraud has led to the loss of ad dollars and compromised brand safety
Nuggets BARC’s self-service portal A lot of advertising decisions in India are made basis data provided by audience ...
Making Sheraton the new gathering place Marriott International has unveiled a refreshed look for its heritage brand
No place to call home Home-buyers have lost their life savings to bogus projects. Can RERA make a difference? BusinessLine ...
Unsold inventory in ongoing projects spells a crisis:Gautam Chatterjee Maharashtra was one of the first States to establish a Real Estate Regulatory Authority in 2017 in a bid to ...
A tale of three developers — will the law catch up? The travails faced by nearly 1 lakh home-buyers in the National Capital Region after signing up for housing ...
Struggling to stay connected BSNL, market leader till about a decade ago, has been hit by inadequate investments, inefficiencies and a lack ...
