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INVESTMENT WORLD
ECONOMY:
Whither consumer spending?
For long, the consumer has been the poster-boy of the “India growth story”. The demographic shift in favour of a younger working population and the upward-bound income levels have been cited to support the view that, no matter ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Index Outlook
Stock markets began to totter even as the interim budget was being read last Monday. All hopes of a flurry of policy changes to pull the distressed economy and stock markets out of the current morass were laid to rest by the insipid ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
DSP Blackrock World Gold Fund: Invest
For investors who are looking for an alternative to domestic equities and can handle considerable volatility in their returns, DSP BlackRock’s World Gold Fund is a good investment ...
STOCKS:
Reliance Communications: Buy
Investors with a two-three year horizon can consider buying the share of Reliance Communications (RCom), going by its pan-India dual-technology mobile play and the strength in its enterprise division, both of which offer long-term ...
STOCKS:
Container Corporation: Buy
Investments with a two-three year perspective can be considered in the stock of Container Corporation of India (Concor). While slackening demand and tightening of lending has taken a toll on most logistics ...
STOCKS:
Sesa Goa: Buy
Investors with a three-year horizon can consider accumulating the stock of Sesa Goa, trading at Rs 82.10. The company’s market leadership in iron ore mining and exports, signs that Chinese demand for Indian ore may resume on the back of ...
STOCKS:
Bartronics India: Buy
Investors with a two-year perspective can buy the shares of Bartronics India, considering large multi-year deal wins that bolster its order-book, and strong position as a SIM card manufacturer for telecom companies in ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Sundaram BNP Paribas Select Focus: Invest
Investors can buy the units of Sundaram BNP Paribas Select Focus (Sundaram Select) considering its long-term return track record as well as the fund’s ability to contain downsides.Sundaram Select is a large-cap stocks (greater than ...
BUDGET:
Annual Budget versus vote-on-account
Surprised that there were no tax or duty cuts in the ‘Budget’ announced the other day? It being an election year, you would have expected some populist measures by the government to woo the voters. While the government did come ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Ahmedabad woos the middle-income group
The Ahmedabad realty market is gearing up to offer affordable houses for the middle income group, and it is happening for the first time in many years, said Mr Kishor Dedhia, Joint Managing Director, Space Management ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Tata Steel
Tata Steel too recorded double-digit decline last week, ending 13 per cent ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Reliance
Reliance Industries moved in line with our expectation, weakening from the key resistance at Rs 1,400 to decline to Rs 1,240. The stock is currently hovering around the support offered by the 21 and 50 day moving averages. But a decline lower ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Infosys
The decline in Infosys halted at the second support at Rs 1,160indicated in our last column. A decline below this level will imply a move lower to Rs 1,100 or Rs 1,060 over the short term. Resistances for the week would be at Rs 1,224 and then ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
SBI
SBI launched in to a deep correction right from the onset of last week and ended with 12 per cent ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Maruti Suzuki
It was a volatile week for Maruti Udyog, at the end of which it closed on a flat ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
ONGC
ONGC reversed lower from an intra-week peak at Rs 708, forming a bearish engulfing pattern on the weekly candlestick chart. Short-term support for the stock is at Rs 657. Once this is breached, a decline to Rs 618 would be on the cards. The ...
BUDGET:
Something in it for India Inc
Interim Budget. The BSE Sensex has crumbled by nearly 800 points after the Interim Budget was unveiled last Monday. But pencil that down to the global cues — an about-turn in the US indices and fresh doubts about the health of the global ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
‘Intelligent Bengaluru’ is the goal
An intelligent and sustainable Bangalore: This is what a pilot programme unveiled recently in the city plans to ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Query corner: What the charts say
I have procured shares of IOB at Rs 60. Kindly give its ...
INVESTMENTS:
Monitor assets to achieve goals
Sandeep, aged 35, is working in a manufacturing company in Chennai and his gross income is Rs 55,000 per month (45 per cent of this is eligible for retirement benefits). His wife Suneeti, aged 32, is self-employed and is running a ...
BOOKS:
Women corporate heads
Do women lack the ‘right’ kind of human capital for directorships? This is the question that Siri Terjesen, Val Singh and Susan Vinnicombe try to answer in one of the essays included in a recent book from Edward Elgar Publishing ...
INCOME TAX:
Couples can share the rebate on housing loan
I have taken a housing loan from ICICI Bank and my wife is a co-applicant. Both of us are income-tax assessees. Can we each get 50 per cent of the benefit of deduction for the interest and principal repayments of the housing ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Tiruchi airport gets new terminal
Tiruchi international airport has got a new integrated terminal building at a cost of Rs 46 ...
ECONOMY:
Fiscal deficit
Picture this. Your company forces you to settle for a lower pay cheque from next month. You have car loan EMIs to pay off and some compelling repair work on your ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Inkel plans one-stop realty shop in Kerala
Infrastructures Kerala Ltd (Inkel) has some major plans for Kerala’s construction ...
ECONOMICS:
Economic prescription from neuroscientists
The sub-prime crisis continues to claim its casualties. Many firms are shutting shop as a result of decline in consumer demand. One of my friends wonders whether we could go beyond traditional economics to make consumers spend. So, we turn ...
BUDGET:
A prudent budget
The unprecedented slowing of the global economy had raised expectations about an additional round of measures, including tax sops, in the Interim Budget. The significant fiscal stimulus already provided in the current year is established by ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Bull's Eye
E-mail your response by Tuesday ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Baskets of X
E-mail your guess before Tuesday ...
INVESTMENTS:
Split-strike conversion
That Bernard Madoff was playing a giant ponzi game is now well known. But what is not that well known is the strategy that he claimed to ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Nifty future may move in a range
Equity markets in India were back to square one last week, as both the Interim Budget and on Obama stimulus plan failed to live up to expectation. The NSE Nifty February future crashed by eight per cent to end at 2722 against the previous ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
‘Broad interest rate trends benign’
We maintain our view of the 10-Year gilt falling to 4 per cent by the end of the interest rate cycle. Why do we feel so? * There is no perceived cash-flow mismatch from the Government borrowings side as ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Prominent bulk deals on NSE & BSE
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STOCK MARKETS:
Technical analysis for novices
Trading in the stock market is no less risky then trying to make a living off a roulette wheel; there are significant fluctuations in the price movements. However, unlike the roulette, the randomness here is fuelled by the perception of ...
NEW FUND OFFER:
Update
Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund has declared a dividend of 25 per cent under its scheme Franklin India Prima Plus. The record date is February ...
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