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INSIGHT
Stock valuations are not about earnings alone
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The fear factor in allocation switches
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Build your mutual fund portfolio with care
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MUTUAL FUNDS
Kotak-30 : Focus on banking
Kotak-30, a large-cap-oriented fund, has consistently beaten its benchmark – the Nifty – over one, three and five year periods. With a little over 30 stocks in its portfolio, the fund holds a compact portfolio. The movement ...
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DWS Investment Opportunity Fund: Hold
Investors in the DWS Investment Opportunity Fund can retain their units in the fund, given its strong performance since launch. With a compounded annual return of about 45 per cent since launch, the fund has kept comfortably ahead of its ...
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Birla Sun Life Basic Industries: Hold
Investors can retain their investments in Birla Sun Life Basic Industries. Its consistent performance over the three- and five-year periods makes it a good investment choice. There was, however, a change in the scheme’s management ...
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Fund Talk
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Fund Update
ABN Amro Mutual Fund has announced a modification in the exit load of ABN Amro Opportunities Fund, with effect from January 15, 2008. The fund will henceforth charge an exit load of 1 per cent for all investments less ...
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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Index Outlook
Reliance Power’s mega public offer probably enveloped our markets in such an optimistic haze that the participants were unable to register the disturbing news-flow from overseas. How else can one account for the Sensex suddenly crashing ...
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Reliance
RIL collapsed by 10 per cent last week, recording the largest weekly loss in the last one year. The giant bearish engulfing candlestick in the weekly chart and the close below the 50-day moving average does not bode well for the near term. ...
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SBI
This stock remained remarkably steady amid all the mayhem in the markets last week. It drifted down towards the lower boundary of its current trend channel at Rs 2,300. We adhere to our view that the medium-term outlook stays positive as long ...
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Tata Steel
Tata Steel extended its loss by another 8 per cent last week. The stock has been moving in a broad range between Rs 780 and Rs 970 since October 2007. Since the stock is once again close to the lower boundary of this trading band, ...
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Infosys
Infosys moved below the psychological support at Rs 1,500 last week. The stock is currently charting the third leg of the move that began from the October 2007 peak at Rs 2,140. The downward targets for this wave are Rs 1,452 and then Rs ...
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Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel crumbled by almost 10 per cent last week. The stock moved below its long-term 200-day moving average and hovered below this support in the later half of the week. The target of the third part of the move from Rs 1,140 peak falls ...
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Satyam Computers
The seemingly impenetrable support at Rs 400 has finally been shattered in Satyam and the stock has already fallen to our medium term target at Rs 370. That is real bad news for the stock. Satyam has now joined Infosys in embarking on a ...
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Query Corner
I have purchased shares of RCF at Rs 140. What is the outlook for this stock? I am a short-term investor with a horizon of two months. Amit ShahRashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers (Rs ...
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CARS
The history of BMW M cars
1960-70: BMW’s considerable success in racing urges the company management to mull over the need for setting up a separate racing or motorsport division.1972: BMW Motorsport GmbH, a wholly-owned ...
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BMW M3: Synthesising speed and luxury
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ECONOMICS
Economic appetisers
This incident happened quite sometime back. I share this experience now because I have some explanation to give based on my reading a similar article in a science magazine recently. Here is the experience: I visited a small bookstore in ...
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STOCK MARKETS
Baskets of X
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Bull's Eye
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Trader's Corner
Mr W. D. Gann is one of the best known names in technical analysis. He gained fame and notoriety through the huge profit that he is said to have amassed from trading in the stock markets. But his theories and concepts remain inscrutable to ...
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Prominent bulk deals on NSE and BSE
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What’s Ahead?
Global indices are likely to dictate terms in the coming week as the Sensex will try to recover from its biggest weekly loss of 1,814 points or 9 per cent in the last 20 months. This occurred even as India Inc’s quarterly performance was ...
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DERIVATIVES MARKETS
Nifty future may lose ground
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MORTGAGE
LONG AND SHORT
Escrow no go
If you were an investment banker, PE fund employee or any such ‘bonus drawing’ type player of the financial and capital markets, I have a very scary word that a lot of people seem to be talking about suddenly.Clawbacks. Ever ...
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REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS
Another step towards tracking the ‘insider’
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INTERVIEW
Money Talk
The concept of “value” is certainly not alien to Mr R. Subramanian, founder and Managing Director of Subhiksha Trading Services, who has founded an entire business franchise based on offering ‘value’ ...
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‘Health and wellness will be the centrepiece of Dabur’s strategy’
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IPOS
Cords Cable Industries: Invest
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J. Kumar Infra: Avoid
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BOOKS
Sunshine, moonlight
Sun and moon. These were the two categories that Dhirubhai Ambani is said to have used for classifying people. “The moon does not shine on its own, but reflects the light from the sun,” explains N. Chokkan in More
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