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TCS: Joining the Ivy League
TCS may well be included in the Ivy League of international IT players after it bagged the largest ever IT outsourcing deal awarded to a single player in India.The deal, valued at $1.2 billion over a 10-year period, with The Nielsen ...
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STOCK TAKES
Patel Engineering: Powered by high margin businesses
Patel Engineering’s consolidated results for the quarter-ended September 2007 reflects the company’s increasing focus on high-margin businesses as well as the gaining traction of its subsidiaries.While consolidated revenues ...
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Container Corporation of India: Buy
Concor’s infrastructure network backed by expected growth in container traffic lends visibility to its future earnings.
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IT is big
TCS has bagged a 10-year deal worth $1.2 billion from Nielsen Co. It will provide IT and Operations support worldwide to the information and media company. ...
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Kalpataru Power Transmission: Buy
The company’s diversified model distinguishes it from other T&D companies.
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Titan Industries: Hold
The onset of the festival season and expansion of retail outlets is likely to translate into strong revenue growth in the near term.
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Jacking up
Jindal Drilling and Industries has been awarded another contract worth Rs 660 crore for charter hire of newly built jack-up rig (Discovery - I), by ONGC. With this, the total order book stands for the company stands at Rs 2,500 crore. ...
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Oil rich
Assam Company has announced it has discovered two new reservoirs of oil and gas at Amguri 11 well in the Assam/Arakan basin, along with its Canadian operating partner Canoro Resources. ...
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Airport lift
Housing Development & Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL) has bagged a project for slum rehabilitation of airport land, awarded by Mumbai International Airport. It will in return receive development rights of land in the same ...
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What’s ahead
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Index Outlook
Investors in the Indian stock markets were subjected to a horrendous week caused by the flip-flop statements emanating from the governing authorities. If the intention of our policymakers is to arrest the rally in stocks, then why turn turtle ...
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INSIGHT
Pharmaceuticals: Demerger of R&D units — a new trend
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No cure-all prescription
While separating the NCE business does help de-risk and bring cost benefits to the parent company, these companies do pose some challenges for investors. First is the question of how to value research outfits that focus on ...
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MUTUAL FUNDS
Fund Talk
I am a Central Government officer who has about 12 years of service left. I have invested in the following mutual funds: ICICI Pru Infrastructure, Fidelity India Special Situations, Reliance Growth, Reliance Equity Advantage, ...
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Kotak Opportunities Fund: Hold
Investors can retain their units in Kotak Opportunities Fund, which now has a three-year track record. With a change in management in the last quarter, investors need to watch for any alterations in strategy before taking fresh exposures to ...
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Catching up with the rest
Diversified funds that earlier trailed their theme-based peers appear to be catching up with the latter as the rally now seems restricted to a few sectors. Three of the top 10 funds were from the diversified category. Here is a look at the ...
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NEW FUND OFFER
Reliance MF launches Gold Exchange Traded Fund
Reliance Mutual Fund has launched Reliance Gold Exchange Traded Fund. This open-ended fund will track domestic prices of gold through investments in physical gold and gold related securities as permitted by regulators ...
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INTERVIEW
‘We are optimistic on real-estate sector prospects for the long term’
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‘We have been undervaluing businesses in India’
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INCOME TAX
A tax-free gift to daughter
I have daughter who is now a major. I would like to gift her certain sums of money every year. I was told that gifts made by me to her are taxable while a gift made by an individual to his son is not ...
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BOOKS
Money and happiness are unrelated
Financiers take risks and make money, but have faced criticism from ancient times for not producing anything useful. The counter argument is that any economy can’t grow without the financial innovations that root out the inefficient and the ...
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