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INVESTMENT WORLD
INSIGHT:
Have FIIs hit ‘pause’?
Cheap valuations and a strong shot of liquidity both had a hand in the Sensex staging a breathtaking 81 per cent rally since March. Of the two, the role played by the gush of liquidity cannot be overemphasised as foreign institutional ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Index Outlook: Faint cracks in uptrend
US President, Barack Obama, and the World Bank played the miscreant over last fortnight, deflating equity markets with their grim statements about a prolonged recession. The whimsical monsoons were Indian equities’ bête noire that ...
STOCKS:
Pratibha Industries: Buy
Construction and infrastructure development company Pratibha Industries, is likely to emerge as one of the key beneficiaries of the Budget spending on urban ...
STOCKS:
Siemens: Book Profits
Siemens India may have taken the stock market by surprise, with revenues back on the growth track and profit margins showing a visible improvement for the quarter ended March 2009 (the company’s second quarter) compared to a year ...
STOCKS:
Sintex Industries: Buy
The stock of Sintex Industries offers a good investment option for investors with a two-three year horizon. From being a plastic storage tank manufacturer, Sintex has become a diversified producer of plastic products that cater to a range ...
STOCKS:
UCO Bank: Book Profits
Investors targeting higher returns can consider exiting the UCO Bank stock after its 81 per cent gain from its March ...
STOCKS:
Strides Arcolab (Rs 147.3): Buy
Investors with medium-term perspective can consider buying Strides Arcolab ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Magnum Equity: Hold
Investors can retain their holdings in Magnum Equity Fund. The fund’s performance over a five-year period is not heartening; however it has managed to return above the category-average and benchmark over a three- and ...
IPOS:
How to analyse an IPO
The year 2008 was one of drought as far as Initial Public Offers (IPO) goes. But with a revival of sorts in the markets, quite a few of these are lined up, with one — that of Mahindra Holiday and Resorts — already through. ...
INSIGHT:
Get the best of remittances
With private players and banks offering remittance services, the options today are many for sending money from overseas to India. But before zeroing in on an option, work out what is crucial for you – time or money. The answer to that ...
EDUCATION:
Prepping to study in the US
While the start of a new school year is the time for schoolmates to reconnect after the long summer months apart, for those in Classes XI and XII, the arduous task of preparing for college begins. Here is a guide to the world of ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Low-cost housing’s slow rise
While the affordable housing segment is in the limelight, generating some demand in an overall sluggish real-estate market, low-cost housing, essentially for the low-income group and economically weaker sections, appears to be making ...
INVESTMENTS:
Why higher equity allocation is optimal for long-term investors?
Many investors have carried their exposure to stocks through 2008 in the hope that these stocks would generate positive returns if they hold on ...
STOCKS:
Query Corner: What the charts say
Please give me long-term advice on Areva T&D and Bharti Airtel purchased at Rs 320 and Rs 950 respectively. ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Tax sops please, we’re realtors
With the countdown to the Union Budget having started, the real estate industry body, Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India (CREDAI), has put forth recommendations on the twin themes of affordable housing and ...
FINANCIAL MARKETS:
US financial reforms: Reining in risk
The overhaul of the US financial system is aimed at better equipping regulators to deal with a crisis. The Obama administration has announced sweeping changes in financial regulation for the US economy in an effort to avert a crisis similar to ...
TAXATION:
Date clause binds rebate to share sale
I purchased shares of some companies through a sub-broker. However no Securities Transaction Tax (STT) was paid at the time of purchase. I held these shares for more than 12 months in my demat account and then sold them. I ...
INVESTMENTS:
Entry load: Unwarranted misgivings
Distributors of mutual fund products have been up in arms against the SEBI decision to do away with entry loads on mutual funds, with some of them even threatening to altogether boycott the funds. SEBI’s move will ...
INTERVIEW:
‘FIIs aren’t turning negative on India’
Domestic valuations are stretched at the moment and that may have made global investors re-evaluate their risk appetite, suggests Mr Andrew Holland, CEO – Equities, Ambit Capital. But even as foreign investors wait for clarity on ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
RICS releases wish-list
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors hopes the Finance Ministry will consider hiking the housing loan interest deduction limit and bringing down home loan interest rates in the coming ...
BOOKS:
Investing and life
In investing, as in life, the small details often spell the difference between success and failure, counsels Jim Rogers in A Gift to my Children: A Father’s Lessons for Life and Investing ( ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Reliance (Rs 2,028.6)
RIL failed to rally above the resistance at Rs 2,384 indicated in our edition dated June 14, 2009, and the third wave of the down-move from Rs 2,490 dragged the stock to our medium-term target of Rs 1,935. It is important to note that RIL ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Fund Talk
I read with interest your column on entry loads last week. I recently started making most of my mutual fund transactions online(through the fund’s portal) and most of my transactions are now treated as ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Nifty future may try to head higher
Thanks to Friday’s strong recovery, the Nifty future managed to end the week on a positive note. The Nifty July future closed 4384, a gain of 1.3 per cent over the previous week’s close of 4326. It also ended with a premium of ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Going green makes economic sense too
Betting big on the profitability of ‘green buildings’, the promoter of Kensville Golf Club, Savvy Infrastructure Ltd, is investing around Rs 400 crore in developing both commercial and residential projects over the next ...
NEW FUND OFFER:
Update
SAHARA MUTUAL FUND has launched Sahara Super 20 Fund, an open ended growth scheme. This new fund offer, which opened on June 25, will remain open till July 23. The investment objective of the scheme would be to provide long ...
INTERVIEW:
Money Talk
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ECONOMICS:
Choice irrationality
Consider this. My friend earns Rs 1.5 lakh per month with a total annual income of Rs 20 lakh including other benefits. One of his company’s clients wants him to work at their office in Europe for four months. He has been promised an ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Bull's Eye
E-mail your response before Tuesday ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Baskets of X
E-mail your guess before Tuesday ...
STOCKS:
Prominent bulk deals on NSE & BSE
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