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STOCKS: Buoyed by disinvestment hopes
PSU stocks. After being also-rans in the bull market from 2003 to 2007, listed PSUs saw a revival of interest after the 2009 election verdict. The BSE PSU index rose 39.5 per cent post-elections, beating the 24 per cent surge in the BSE-500 and ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Index Outlook — Air pockets ahead
Sensex treaded water in the early part of last week as the expiry of the May derivative contracts dominated proceedings. Fresh resolve displayed by the new (?) Cabinet to make a difference this time around, provided the impetus to help ...
STOCKS: Redington India: Buy
Investors with a two-year horizon may buy the shares of Redington India, an IT hardware and software ...
STOCKS: Tata Motors: Hold
Tata Motors is in a phase that cricket commentators would call consolidation — that is, the period where the side chasing runs rebuilds its innings after the fall of a couple of quick wickets. The company is slowly but surely picking up ...
STOCKS: Shriram Transport Finance Company: Buy
Fresh investments can be considered in the stock of Shriram Transport Finance Company (STFC), which is among the leading asset financing (commercial vehicle financing) NBFCs in ...
STOCKS: JK Lakshmi Cement: Buy
The stock of JK Lakshmi Cements looks an attractive buy in the mid-cap cement space at the current price of Rs 98. The stock trades at just three times its trailing four quarter earnings when some of its peers are at over six times ...
STOCKS: Welspun India (Rs 35.8): Buy
The structural down-trend from December 2004 peak in this stock halted at Rs 13 this February and a strong uptrend is in motion since ...
MUTUAL FUNDS: Birla Sun Life Frontline Equity Fund: Invest
Investors can consider buying the units of Birla Sunlife Frontline Equity Fund (Birla Frontline), given its long-term track record of delivering steady returns and ability to contain downsides during ...
MUTUAL FUNDS: Magnum Multiplier Plus 1993: Invest
Investors with a penchant for high risk can consider investments in Magnum Multiplier Plus. The fund has generated a compounded annualised return of 34 per cent over a five-year period and outpaced the benchmark BSE-100 by 10 percentage ...
MUTUAL FUNDS: Lumpsum still scores
In a volatile market.... In a highly volatile market, the SIP (systematic investment plan) is considered better than lumpsum investments. Mutual funds too advocate this method to weather volatile markets. But the numbers suggest a different ...
INVESTMENTS: How to climb out of debt trap
Debt is an important tool available to every individual who is keen to build his assets. Being in debt is not a bad thing as long as you are taking steps to pay it ...
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: All about QIPs
With most funding routes closed, Qualified Institutional Placements or QIPs seem especially alluring at the ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION: Rebound in realty?
Nearly a year after the demand slowdown, the property market sentiments seem to be improving, according to real estate companies. Builders across the market segment are claiming that the last two months have witnessed a surge in bookings ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION: Harping on value for money
After the real estate meltdown, with the price differential between gated community projects and smaller private developers coming down, more and more new buyers are looking at gated ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Query Corner : What the charts say
I have purchased Praj Industries at Rs 75. Please advise whether to book profit or buy some more at current ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION: Where supply meets demand
One of the chief executives of a hospitality chain who visited Mangalore recently after a gap of three years, had one thing to say about the city — it now wears a different look. He attributed a host of developmental activities taken up ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Pivotals
RIL moved sideways in a narrow range before spurting to an intra week peak of Rs 2,304 on Friday. As indicated in our last column, the short-term trend in this stock is ...
TAXATION: Treatment of capital gains on sale of shares
I have three demat accounts and hold 375 shares of RPL, the details of which are as follows: Acquired on January 1, 2007- 100 shares with ICICI in ...
BOOKS: Killer home loans
In the new economy, wins are private affairs, and losses, public, bemoans Jon Jeter in Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People ( ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION: Luxury mall in Chennai
Bergamo Luxury Mall, a shopping destination for the super rich, is set to open its doors in Chennai at Khader Nawaz ...
PSU: The line-up for disinvestment
By now, it is quite clear that the Government does have divestment of its stakes in PSUs high on its agenda for the next few months. That may well allow investors to buy into a whole range of offers from listed as well as new PSUs. Which ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS: Nifty future may move higher, but caution advised
Defying gravity, the market continued to witness a firm trend. The Nifty June future closed the week at 4441 with a gain of 4.8 per cent over the previous week’s close of 4256.2. However, the June future closed at a discount of about ...
ECONOMICS: The strange case of bistromathics
It was yet another stressful wait at the airport last week. We all know the reason by now — “delay due to the late arrival of the incoming aircraft”. Why is it that flights as a rule do not take off on time? And what has ...
CORPORATE: Reading corporate actions
Crude oil prices, interest rates, corporate results — there are a plethora of factors that the stock market investor needs to track to make informed decisions about ...
INVESTMENTS: Target returns funds: Need for style-based tactical asset allocation strategy
Target returns fund appears to be finding favour among asset management firms. Prudential ICICI Mutual Fund launched one recently and reportedly has met with good investor response. Reliance Mutual Fund has filed a document with SEBI to offer ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Relative Strength Index
One of the most useful and popular momentum oscillators is the Relative Strength Index (RSI). It was developed by J. Welles Wilder and published in his book New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems in 1978. The RSI ...
STOCK MARKETS: Bull's Eye
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STOCK MARKETS: Baskets of X
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MUTUAL FUNDS: Fund Talk
Please give your advice on my investments for a long-term horizon of 5 to 7 years. I have invested in small amounts in all schemes spread over a period of last 2.5 years even during the Sensex high of 21000 and during the lows of ...
NEW FUND OFFER: Update
Reliance Mutual Fund has launched a fund that will invest in infrastructure companies. Opportunities in the related sectors such as transport, banks and financial institutions, energy, power and oil, metals and minerals, ...
