The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, May 01, 2005

What's cooking in the `S' group?
The `S' group of stocks, formed to allow smaller companies greater access to the capital market, has notched up strong gains in just four months. This is good if it means investors have been enabled to discover these stocks. But both the investors an d the authorities need to watch out for speculative activity. More

SIMPLE ECONOMICS

Equity-premium
IF you had bought shares that constituted the S&P CNX Nifty index, your one-year return as of March 31, 2005 would have been 15 per cent. The returns are higher if you had invested for 3-5 years. Financial economists term such high returns as the More

TAX TALK

A question of returns from a couple returning to India
I AM a non-resident. My wife and I were earlier working in India. I have since moved over to Dubai where both my wife and myself are employed. We have made substantial savings out of our earnings in Dubai and our ... More

IN FOCUS

MNCs lose the FMCG edge
THE value that the stock market is willing to assign to the multinational and home-grown companies in the FMCG space has converged over the past year. While the price-earnings multiples of domestic entities have been ... More

AUTO FOCUS

Ford Mondeo Ghia: Montage of abilities
THERE is a certain amount of reluctance that premium segment sedan buyers display when they consider competing cars from a few brands in the market. Here, image is everything and though new age technology is all-important, it somehow does not ... More

BOOK VALUE

Treat the market as a lady and you will be happy
SPECULATION is a 11 letter word that often gets four-letter treatment. But it need not be so. "Speculation is not a dirty word and neither is it gambling," says Ashwani Gujral in How to Make Money Trading Derivatives: An Insider's ... More

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