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STOCKS
Gujarat State Petronet: Buy
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Aegis Logistics: Buy
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IDFC: Buy
The sharp de-rating of Indian financials over the past quarter has seen the IDFC stock lose over 33 per cent in value to its current Rs 154 levels. With a business portfolio that spans infrastructure funding, private equity, investment banking ... More

Monster deal
Larsen & Toubro has bagged four orders worth Rs 1,687 crore from the Government of Rajasthan, Bhushan Steel-Orissa, SAIL Bokaro Steel Plant and the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC). The orders are for water supply projects, cold roll mill ... More

Helping Chrysler
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Mexican buy
JK Tyre & Industries has announced the acquisition of a $200-million Mexican tyre-producing company, Tornel, for Rs 270 crore. Tornel, which specialises in passenger car radials, has a total capacity of 6.6 million tyres at its three ... More

Put on block
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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS Q&A
Query Corner
I hold shares of Cairn India purchased during the initial public offering. Please advise me on the future outlook of this share. Antima Aggarwal, Gangadharan Cairn India (Rs 252.7): ... More

Tech School
The launching of India VIX (volatility index), India’s very own fear gauge is a timely move by the Indian regulator. Now, instead of shaking the head gloomily and making a general statement such as ‘the market is very volatile ... More

Index Outlook
Indian markets slipped in to a somnolent state last week. The monotonous onslaught of negative news has probably left it too bored to react any more or perhaps this is the saturation point. However, periods of lull in stock markets need to be ... More

Reliance
RIL moved past the resistance offered by the two moving average lines, to end the week close to our resistance at Rs 2,550. The third leg of the up move that commenced on March 18 appears to be in progress now. The targets for this move ... More

SBI
This stock refused to buckle under pressure and managed to hold above the key support at Rs 1,600 last week. The near-term outlook for SBI has been revised to neutral. The stock is expected to fluctuate in the band between Rs ... More

Tata Steel
Tata Steel moved in a narrow band between Rs 645 and Rs 700 last week. Fresh longs are advised only if the stock moves beyond Rs 700 in the early part of the week. The subsequent targets are Rs 735 and then Rs 790. However, failure to ... More

Infosys
Pre-earning jitters appears to have pulled Infosys lower last week, resulting in a 4 per cent decline. The stock is moving in the band between Rs 1,400 and Rs 1,550 over the past three weeks. Short-term traders can buy the stock close ... More

Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel appears to be biding time prior to a break-out. The reversal on Monday was thwarted once again by the ceiling at Rs 850. This stock too is consolidating after the upward spike in mid-march. However, fresh trading longs are ... More

Satyam Computers
This stock meandered sideways just under the long-term 200-day moving average last week. The up trend that began from March 13 trough is still in force. But this move can terminate around Rs 454. Since the stock is not too far from this level, ... More

MUTUAL FUNDS
UTI Mid-Cap Fund: Firming up on cement
Mid- and small-cap stocks generally follow different patterns in the market. If the market is in a bull-phase mid-caps catch up with large-cap peers with a lag. But when the market turns the other way, the mid- and small-cap stocks are the ... More

Fidelity Equity Fund: Hold
Unitholders can retain hold Fidelity Equity Fund. The fund’s performance since inception has placed it in the top quartile within diversified funds, though it has under-performed its benchmark BSE-200 over the past year. The fund has ... More

Fund Talk
I am a 61- year old professional and have been investing in stocks and mutual funds for over four years now. I am a long-term investor. I need a regular source of income from dividends. Kindly suggest changes to be made to my ... More

Fund update
Canara Robeco Mutual has announced the merger of two existing schemes Canara Robeco Expo and Canara Robeco Fortune 94 with Canara Robeco Equity Diversified Scheme. This merger will be effective April 23. Investors who prefers ... More

INSIGHT
Bad quarter for mutual funds: Diversified funds may hold key
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Harvesting alphas: Why closed-end funds are a better route
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The inflation effect on you and me
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Infrastructure funds — choose from a growing basket
Investors who held infrastructure funds over the past one year would have earned an average return of about 36 per cent, beating the average returns of diversified equity funds. While a good number of these funds were launched in the ... More

CARS

  • Ajanta’s electric car to challenge Nano

    REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION
    Housing, at what cost?
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    Super luxury apartments gaining ground
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    Old — and independent
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    Tax roll-back plea
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    Green homes
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    TN housing project
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    Americorp plans big
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    Home loan rates
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    GENERAL INSURANCE
    HOW TO GUIDE
    How to choose health cover
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    Is your ‘sweet home’ also a ‘safe-home’?
    Do you remember a single day without the newspapers reporting some burglary or chain-snatching incident in your city? Not to forget, the numerous gas cylinder explosion cases and freak fire accidents due to short circuits or bad wiring! Every ... More

    ECONOMICS
    Are you being served?
    The other day, I had to spend an agonizingly long time in the queue at the largest public sector bank to pay my daughter’s school fees. More as wishful thinking, I thought that it would be nice if the person who came last is served ... More

    STOCK MARKETS
    Prominent bulk deals on NSE & BSE
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    Baskets of X
    E-mail your guess before Tuesday to: BasketsOfX@gmail.com

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    Bull's Eye
    E-mail your response by Tuesday to BullsEye@thehindu.co.in

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    What’s ahead?
    With inflation soaring to new record highs and even IIP numbers pointing at a moderation in growth, volatility in the markets may continue. This may get further accentuated by the two-day market holiday next week. All hopes now hinge on the ... More

    DERIVATIVES MARKETS
    DO THE DREIVATIVES
    Using Long Strangle to play volatile markets
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    Nifty future likely to see decisive direction soon
    Taking most traders by surprise, last week saw an excellent display of resilience in our markets as they bounced back from their previous week’s fall. However, trading volumes continued to remain subdued with a bulk of it coming from the ... More

    PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS

  • SBI schemes for students in rural schools

    MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
    TOP OF THE MIND
    Takeovers: Tale of three knights
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    Targeting Orchid
    Down 44 per cent in a single week and up 93 per cent in the next fortnight! That’s the story of the Orchid Chemicals stock over the past 3-4 weeks. Orchid’s newfound status as a possible takeover target has prompted investors and ... More

    INTERVIEW
    ‘Buy today sell tomorrow’ traders have been badly singed: Mayank Shah
    Sub-brokers will eventually get replaced with relationship managers More

    Our strategy has been to focus on products and build a services model around them
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    INCOME TAX
    Deductions for stamp duty under 80C
    Will rebate under Section 80C in respect of stamp duty paid for registration of a property be available only in respect of such duty paid for acquiring a residential house or will it also be available in respect of such duty paid ... More

    IPOS
    Aishwarya Telecom — IPO: Avoid
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    RIGHTS ISSUE
    Godrej Consumer Products — Rights Offer: Invest
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    BOOKS
    Two markets for stocks
    Investing done right is inherently circumstance-based, says Christopher Mayer in ‘Invest Like a Dealmaker’ ( www.landmarkonthenet.com). “There ... More

    AIRLINES

  • Kingfisher airlines expands network

    FOREIGN TRADE
    MacroTracker
    The unprecedented rise of the rupee, the US slowdown, soaring commodity prices in the international markets and stiff domestic interest rates have all left an indelible mark on India’s foreign trade in the eleven months ended February ... More

    NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

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