INVESTMENT WORLD
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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): ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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STOCK MARKETS
Prominent bulk deals on NSE & BSE
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