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INVESTMENT WORLD
INSIGHT:
Recovery tempered by challenges
India Inc’s September scorecard. A strong earnings rebound, swelling margins, but poor sales growth. This best describes India Inc’s performance in the just-ended September quarter. The 1,622 companies (on the basis of standalone ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Index Outlook: Sensex wavers around 16,000
Market was at its whimsical best last week. Stock prices appeared to be rolling down a deep chasm last Tuesday but just when most market participants were convinced that the downtrend was going to be long-drawn and painful, stock prices ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Query Corner: Religare continues to be in down-trend
I am holding Entertainment Network India Ltd (ENIL) purchased at Rs 205. I wish to know how this stock is likely to act in the short-term. Subur ...
STOCKS:
Larsen & Toubro: Buy
STOCKS:
Zee Entertainment: Hold
Zee Entertainment stands to gain substantially from the channels it would get to own after Zee News de-merges and transfers them to the ...
STOCKS:
M&M Finance: Buy
Investors with a high-risk appetite can consider fresh exposures in the stock of Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services (M&M Finance). A 61 per cent subsidiary of auto company, Mahindra & Mahindra, M&M Finance is an asset ...
STOCKS:
Punj Lloyd: Sell
A repeat instance of cost overruns by Punj Lloyd’s subsidiaries, albeit with a different client, has sprung a surprise on investors. This comes after the management’s comments in the June quarter that the company has made ...
STOCKS:
Chart Focus: Max India (Rs 179.90): Buy
Investors with medium-term perspective can consider buying the Max India stock. Since its October 2008 low of Rs 81, the stock has been trending upwards. However, after encountering resistance around Rs 250 in June 2008, it began to ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Tata Balanced Fund: Hold
Investors may retain the units of Tata Balanced Fund, given its long-term track record in ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Stock Strategy: Sesa Goa, ICICI Bank could see sharp swings
Sesa Goa (305): The Sesa Goa stock is likely to see sharp swings, as it is at a critical ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Index Strategy: Bear put spread strategy
We suggest traders to set a bear put spread for the week, using Nifty Nov put options with strikes 4,900 and 4,600. Both strikes have seen a significant build up in open interest, suggesting that these could be the interim resistance and ...
INSIGHT:
Deciding on donations
Whether you’re looking at stocks or mutual funds or fixed deposits or debentures, you know the homework you need to do. You’re well acquainted with performance metrics, valuations, industry prospects and a host of other ...
INSIGHT:
Will new trading hours help investors?
The recent move by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to allow stock exchanges to extend trading by two-and-a-half hours from 9 am to 5 pm has elicited groans from some quarters and applause from others. Though the move is ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Changing mood in realty
From aggressive fund-raising drives to alluring festival offers, sequential rise in sales volumes to frenzied hiring spree — the mood in the real-estate industry has suddenly ...
INVESTMENTS:
Back on the traditional path
Max New York Life’s Secure Dreams. Competition is believed to be the mother of innovations in the business world. But, at times, corrections in equity market too bring about ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Taking stock of southern market
From the buoyancy in 2007 to the slump in 2008 and signs of an upswing now; from spiralling interest rates to rate cuts and efforts by the Reserve Bank of India to ease money flow and now back to a tight-fisted regime; from soaring prices ...
CORPORATE:
What lies beneath the numbers
Quarterly results announcements from companies are nowadays accompanied by much fanfare, with television anchors plying the management with questions and stock prices reacting to every reported number. However, what is contained in the ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Pune shops for commercial space
There is a mixed bag of news for those who have interests in commercial and office space — that segment of real-estate hardest hit by the economic downturn. The good news first: there is a general consensus that are signs of life in ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Making room for the Games
Visitors to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi could find themselves short on accommodation. The authorities are trying alternative arrangements to increase supply ahead of the event, international property consultant, Jones Lang ...
TAXATION:
Clearing the premise for taxes on property
My wife recently sold a property for Rs 12.60 lakh. The property was bequeathed by my father to her. The property was purchased in 1945. Some rooms were constructed with GI sheets in the 1970s. The cost and year of construction are ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Pivotals: Reliance Industries (Rs 1,956.7)
RIL declined towards our first medium-term target in the first trading session of the week but the 200 day moving average positioned there helped to arrest the ...
SOCIAL WELFARE:
Guiding charity
The entire exercise of evaluating a charity calls for considerable time and effort. A charitable trust is not bound by disclosures and norms that govern a public company, and getting together the required information is, by itself, quite a ...
INVESTMENTS:
Fisher’s scuttlebutt
When it comes to effective long term investing, the quantitative aspects of a business are a great filter, however the intangible qualitative traits go a long way in deciding how the results turn out. Philip Fisher’s scuttlebutt ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Prominent bulk deals on NSE and BSE
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ECONOMICS:
Why thinking too hard is bad
Consider this. You are taking an exam that contains multiple choice questions. You are unsure about certain answers. The more you think, the more you are confused. The more you are confused, the more likely you are to change your answers. ...
EVENTS:
Biz Quiz
# 1. How would you connect Ranbaxy, Birla Sun life Insurance and Fiat ...
INVESTMENTS:
Insurance first, investment later
LIC’s Jeevan Nischay. Insurance is supposed to serve the purpose of protection. But, of late, we have been witnessing a number of insurers pitching products as a combination of investment and ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Some pointers on...
When to sell a fund
What funds should I buy? That’s a question investors seem to ask more often than “What funds should I sell?” Yet, tracking your mutual fund portfolio and weeding out the funds that don’t fit is essential to ensuring ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Reliance Equity Opportunities: Hold
Unitholders can stay invested in Reliance Equity Opportunities Fund based on its performance over the past year. The four-year-old fund has, over a three-year period, generated a compounded annual return of 7.6 per cent, trailing its ...
BOOKS:
Money moves in waves
Money doesn’t flow, it sloshes, says Richard Sipley in Market Indicators: The Best-Kept Secret to More Effective Trading and Investing ( ...
INVESTMENTS:
Can investment portfolios pay health-care costs?
Health-care costs are a significant proportion of our lifestyle expenses. Yet, insurance companies do not typically cover costs incurred by individuals due to pre-existing illness. How can individuals hedge such ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Bull's Eye
E-mail your response before Tuesday ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Baskets of X
E-mail your guess before Tuesday ...
NEW FUND OFFER:
Update
Axis Mutual Fund has launched a new open-ended growth scheme called Axis Equity Fund. Its objective will be to achieve long-term capital appreciation by investing in a diversified portfolio of equity and equity-related ...
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