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STOCKS
Bartronics India: Buy
Investors with a one to two year perspective can buy the shares of Bartronics India, considering its strong business prospects and reasonable valuations. At the current share price of Rs 214, the stock trades at about 16 times its current ...
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Maruti Suzuki: Buy
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Pratibha Industries: Buy
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Aegis Logistics: Buy
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Black diamond
Tata Steel has signed an agreement with Riversdale Mining to establish a joint venture to develop a hard coking and thermal coal project at key coal exploration tenements held by Riversdale in Mozambique. ...
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Big Money
National Thermal Power Corporation will invest Rs 7,245 crore in two thermal and one gas power project, after its board approved the investment proposals recently. The projects are located in the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and ...
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Focus on hotels
DLF has formed an equal partnership with Adrian Zecha, founder and chairman of Aman Resorts, to acquire a controlling interest in the Aman Resorts Group. The transaction is valued at $400 million (Rs 1,000 crore) with an assumed debt of ...
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Deal gone wrong
Hexaware plans to provision up to $25 million (approx. Rs 100 crore) to cover exposure as a result of actively concealed and potentially fraudulent forex option transactions by an official. It has also appointed a special committee to conduct ...
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INVESTMENTS
What gives gold its glitter
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SMART MESSAGE
You could turn poor with ‘get-rich-quick’ investing
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INSIGHT
Manic October in F&O: A warning sign?
The monthly traded value in the derivative segment October was the highest ever, at Rs 18 lakh crore. In November, though, activity in the segment was more subdued, as action shifted to the small-cap sphere.
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Power stocks: Caution, high voltage
What is driving all the action in power stocks? Are their valuations justified? Or is there a risk of short-circuit round the corner?
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FOREX
Power of currencies
Weekend is when friends from the western world call you. One of my very close friends from Canada had called me over this weekend. I usually discuss weather with him in this part of the year. This time, it was different. He was ...
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MUTUAL FUNDS
More for diversity than high returns
Gold ETFs
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Sundaram BNP Paribas Rural India Fund: Hold
Investors can hold on to their units in Sundaram BNP Paribas Rural India Fund. The fund’s one-year return of 51 per cent has placed it in the top quartile of the performance chart of diversified funds. The fund has also outpaced its ...
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Birla Top 100: Cautious on IT
Birla Top 100 Fund invests at least 65 per cent of its corpus in the top 100 companies, as measured by market capitalisation, and the rest in stocks with strong growth prospects and the potential to outperform the broader indices.Though ...
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Fund Talk
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Fund Update
ING Mutual Fund has recently launched ING Global Real Estate Fund an open-ended fund of fund scheme.The scheme seeks to invest predominantly in ING Global Real Estate Securities Fund and also in other similar overseas ...
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TAXATION
Deductions on transport charges
Our company engages transport contractors for transportation of goods without composite contract on loading or unloading of goods. Are we required to deduct tax at source on the payment ...
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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Query Corner
I am planning to invest in Nagarjuna Construction. What are the prospects of this stock with a one-year time frame and what would be the correct price to enter? Shivangi UpadhayaNagarjuna ...
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Index Outlook
Indian markets put up a resilient show last week despite the pressures of rolling over a fairly heavy November series. Both the Sensex and Nifty have recorded a negative close in November. The chart pattern, however, suggests that this is more ...
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Nifty future still at critical stage
Implied volatility at 30 per cent mark
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Reliance Industries
It was a subdued show by Reliance last week. The stock confined to a narrow band between Rs 2,770 and Rs 2,900 as anticipated by us. The medium-term trend in the stock has been sideways since October 29. The higher troughs formed in this ...
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SBI
SBI moved sideways with a positive bias last week. The stock appears to be consolidating before launching the next upward move. Investors can buy the stock with a stop at Rs 2,100. The stock can move higher to Rs 2,400 and then Rs 2,620. ...
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Tata Steel
Tata Steel moved lower in the second half of last week and is currently poised delicately on the support at Rs 800. This level will be keenly watched over the next few sessions since the 50-day moving average line is present here. ...
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Infosys
Infosys gapped up last Monday and valiantly struggled to retain this gain until the end of the week. But the fact that the stock could not stage a ‘V’ shaped reversal reflects the high level of scepticism in this counter. ...
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Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel emulated the moves of the other pivotals in trading within a narrow band last week. The stock is still struggling with the resistance at Rs 950. But it can move higher to Rs 985 or Rs 1,030 next week. Aggressive traders can go ...
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Satyam
Satyam managed to hold the support at Rs 400 and moved towards Rs 440 as indicated last week. The zone around Rs 440 is a key resistance for the short-term since the 50-day moving average is present there and it is also the 38.2 per cent ...
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Trader's Corner
Certain candlestick patterns do not explicitly signal a trend reversal but only give an indication of whether the prevalent trend could halt or reverse. The bullish and bearish engulfing candlestick patterns belong to the former category while ...
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CARS
Chevy models top quality rankings
Customer satisfaction research and consulting services outfit J. D. Power Asia Pacific's 2007 India Initial Quality Study (IQS) has, for the first time, thrown up three Chevrolet models as the top ranking vehicles in initial quality in their ...
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TWO/THREE WHEELERS
Suzuki gains Access to scooter market
In keeping with its calculated and conservative approach to the Indian market, Suzuki has chosen to mark its entry into the scooter segment with Access 125, a simple, yet well-designed and well-finished two-wheeler.
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ECONOMICS
Don’t compare, be happy…
In a recent meeting with one of his clients, my friend, a money manager, learnt a lesson in human behaviour. His client earned 65 per cent in one year but was unhappy when he found that his neighbour earned 80 per cent during the same period. ...
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STOCK MARKETS
Prominent bulk deals on NSE & BSE
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Baskets of X
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Bull's Eye
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What’s ahead?
Foreign institutional investors (FIIs), who remained net sellers in the stock market at end-November, may determine the future of the domestic stock markets as we enter the last month of the year. Barring 2000 and 2001, the Sensex has never ...
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INTERVIEW
‘Institutional interest is on the increase’
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A lot of money chasing deals
Investment bankers who can ideate, test the story and structure deals with conviction, might have an edge over others who just run processes or “join the dots” through intermediation.
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IPOS
eClerx Services: Avoid
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PEOPLE
Investment Nuggets
Meet the man who coined the term ‘hedge fund’. Alfred Winslow Jones (1901-1989) is credited with forming the first modern hedge fund and is widely regarded as the father of the hedge fund industry. He graduated from Harvard ...
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BOOKS
Are you a Blue CEO?
You can profit by investing and at the same time the world can be a better place, say Daniel de Faro Adamson and Joe Andrew in ‘The Blue Way’ ( More
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