The earnings season along with the latest economic data suggest the RBI's efforts to ensure price stability without hampering growth prospects appear to be bearing fruit. Corporate India is benefiting from the buoyant domestic and ...
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Fund Talk
I hold the following mutual funds: Reliance Equity Fund, Birla Infrastructure Fund, Fidelity Special Situation, Reliance Long Term Equity, HSBC Advantage India, HDFC Premier Multi-Cap, and Principal Infrastructure & Services Industries. I am ...
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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Query corner
I have purchased Marg Constructions at Rs 257. What is your view on the stock? Krishna Kumar. R Marg Constructions (Rs 152.3): In our previous review of this stock in early December 2006, we had expected a rally to Rs 300. ...
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Index Outlook
The easy passage of the ICICI follow-on public offer and the support lent to the issue by institutional investors, both external and domestic, allayed the market's fear of a liquidity drain and caused a relief rally that took Sensex to an ...
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ACC
This move indicates that the stock could be in the third wave of the move that commenced at Rs 678. This wave has the targets of Rs 885 and then Rs 967. Since the 200 day moving average is also positioned at Rs 967, the band between Rs 950 and ...
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Infosys
Infosys could not move past the previous week's close and slipped below the 50 DMA again. We had indicated that the move since June could be the C wave of a flat. This wave could have terminated around the first target of Rs 2,041. In this ...
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Tata Steel
The outlook for Tata Steel remains unaltered for the short as well as medium term. The short-term trend is down since the peak of Rs 669. This move can launch in to its third leg that gives the downward targets of Rs 559 or Rs 524. A fall ...
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SBI positive in short term
The stock rose past our second short-term target to an intra-week high of Rs 1,467. This move could be the fifth part of the up-move that began in March 2007. The targets for this fifth wave are Rs 1,409 and then Rs 1,490. If we consider an ...
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Reliance Ind
Reliance continues to be in an indecisive phase. The reversal from Rs 1,749 keeps the short-term outlook negative and the stock can move lower to Rs 1,656 and then to Rs 1,598. The 50-DMA positioned at Rs 1,635 will lend support in the near term. ...
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ONGC
ONGC moved up last week to record a gain of 3 per cent. It has, however, not moved beyond the medium-term resistance at Rs 935. The oscillators in the weekly chart continue to be weak. Failure to move past this level can drag the stock lower to ...
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Tech Tools
I am a long-term investor and follow trend-line on weekly chart with stop loss at a recent low of the stock as suggested in one of your articles. I sold one stock immediately after the stop loss was hit. But the stock moved higher afterwards. ...
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Trader's Corner
Have you ever noticed that you tend to listen keenly to some analysts on the business channels on televisions whereas your mind switches off while others are speaking. A close scrutiny will show that the analysts whom you follow closely will hold ...
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CARS
Scorpio stings, in style and price
While the Scorpio Lx answers the growing customer demand for an entry level SUV with the new generation common rail diesel engine and value enhancing features, the Getaway is a niche, lifestyle vehicle.
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HCV/LCV/TRACTORS
People movers from Tatas
Tata Motors' two new vehicles Magic and Winger will attempt to cater to the two ends of the people movers segment.
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ECONOMICS
No free lunches
If you are pizza-crazy like my brother is, you may be familiar with the difference in customer policy that pizza restaurants have. In most employee-managed restaurants, especially in North America, you receive a free meal if you do not get a ...
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STOCK MARKETS
Bulk deals on NSE and BSE
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Bull's Eye
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Baskets of X
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DERIVATIVES MARKETS
Nifty future may witness volatile trading
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INTERVIEW
`We expect a 20 per cent return from gold over 5-10 years'
With the increasing demand for gold as an alternative investment class, coupled with the declining dollar, increased geo-political tensions in the Middle East and the global inflationary scenario, we expect a 20 per cent return from gold. MR RITESH JAIN, HEAD (FIXED INCOME), KOTAK MAHINDRA AMC
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INCOME TAX
Taxing inheritance
I am a nominee for a Post-Office senior citizen scheme account of my aunt. My aunt died recently and left a will whereby the amount in the Post- Office Scheme has been left to me. My aunt did not have an income exceeding the maximum amount not ...
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IPOS
Spice Communications: Avoid
The company's track record, cost structure and trends in business growth suggest that it may find it difficult to capitalise on growth opportunities amidst competition.
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Suryachakra Power: Avoid
The risks of investing in this offer outweigh the potential returns.
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HDIL: Invest at cut-off
Of the total land reserves, 83 per cent is in the lucrative Mumbai Metropolitan Region, where the demand for space has remained robust.
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BOOKS
Seven deadly sins of investment
A crow will conquer owl in broad daylight, so too a king who wants to crush his foes needs fitting time to fight. More than two millennia old counsel, this is, from one of the 1,330 Kurals of Tiruvalluvar. Can any work be hard in very ...
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