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INVESTMENT WORLD
STOCK MARKETS:
FIIs, flush with cash, turn selective
Even while flooding the market with Rs 59,000 crore between March and September this year, FIIs actually reduced their stakes in several companies. Shareholding patterns show that FIIs reduced their holdings in about one-third of the ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Dubai World scare, a trigger for correction?
Is Dubai World's debt repayment problem merely a delayed aftershock of last year's credit crisis or a fresh tremor likely to shake up the financial system? Opinion may be divided on this; but the event is certainly reason for stock market ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Index Outlook: Volatility to the fore again
Those of us who have been deriding the market for its comatose moves over the past fortnight had our fill of action in the last two sessions. Stock prices that had reversed lower on the derivative expiry day began hurtling downward on Friday ...
STOCKS:
Tulip Telecom: Buy
RIGHTS ISSUE:
Lakshmi Vilas Bank — Rights offer: Subscribe
Investors can subscribe to the Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) rights offer which is at a 25 per cent discount to its current market price. LVB is a small-sized old private bank with two-thirds of its branches located in Tamil Nadu. Though the ...
STOCKS:
Jyothy Labs: Buy
It is FMCG makers which can deliver strong volume growth that have been outperformers in the stock market in recent months. That's why Indian players such as Marico, Dabur India and Godrej Consumer have seen a sharp expansion in their PE ...
STOCKS:
eClerx Services: Buy
Investors with a two-year horizon may buy the shares of eClerx Services, considering the improving business prospects for the segments (financial services, manufacturing) that the company caters to and the ramp-ups in business that the company ...
IPOS:
MBL Infrastructures — IPO: Invest
Investors with a high risk appetite and a two-year perspective can subscribe to the initial public offer of MBL Infrastructures Ltd (MBL), a player in the road segment. A healthy order-book, sound clientele, backward integration and ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Reliance Growth Fund: Invest
Investors with a taste for risk can consider Reliance Growth Fund. The fund has comfortably outpaced its benchmark BSE 100 as well as the more broad-based BSE 500 over an ...
NEW FUND OFFER:
A value buy
DSPBR World Mining Fund. DSP BlackRock World Mining Fund (DSPBR WMF), an open-ended fund of funds equity scheme, is the latest thematic fund offering from this asset ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Fidelity Tax Advantage: Invest
Investments can be considered in Fidelity Tax Advantage Fund, given the sound track record built over the last three years. Over a three-year period, the fund clocked compounded annualised returns of 12.8 per cent, outperforming its benchmark ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Index Strategy: Consider bull call spread on Nifty
After the roller coaster ride of last week, the coming week promises to give some firm direction to the markets. Traders can consider a bull call spread on Nifty by buying Nifty Dec 5,100 call, which closed the week at Rs 92 and selling Nifty ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Stock Strategy: Weak trend in L&T; consider short straddle in IFCI
Larsen & Toubro (1590): The outlook appears negative as long as the stock stays below 1,630. However, it finds support at 1,520. A drop below that level (on a closing day basis) could weaken it to 1,475 and 1,350 and even to 1,275. On ...
CORPORATE:
Will equity expansion dilute earnings?
Often you would have seen your favourite business channel or the exclusive stock market Web sites flash the words “concerns of earnings dilution/equity dilution lead to decline in the stock price of X Co.” As a shareholder, ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
F&O need not be speculative
I engage in day-trading in the cash market and also in the futures and options segment. For 2008-09 I have made a loss of Rs 1.70 lakh. Under which head should I show the loss in the return of income? Will this be a short-term capital loss ...
INFRASTRUCTURE:
Putting buses on fast track
The month-old Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) in Ahmedabad is catching on. Though not adopted by office-goers, as it is yet to cover some of the busy routes, it finds a wide range of users, especially housewives, students and the aged who see ...
STOCK MARKETS:
The short of it
It can bankrupt central banks, batter down bluechips and usually riles up regulators. Short-selling is a universally hated but useful tool to make money in the market. A strategy that can be used for anything ranging from intra-day trades to ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Query Corner: Fresh long-term uptrend in Indusind Bank
Please let me know the prospects of Voltamp and Alstom Projects. ...
INTERVIEW:
Betting on erring businesses for ‘value'
“I'd like to buy stocks that are in the front page for the wrong reasons,” says Mr Nitin Bajaj, Fund Manager for Fidelity's new India ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Boutique homes, beyond luxury
From large luxury formats developers appear to be looking at boutique homes in ...
BOOKS:
Three investment directives
Dividends, international, and valuation: these three are ‘the D-I-V directives' prescribed by Jeremy J. Siegel in The Future for Investors: Why the tried and the true triumph over the bold and the new ...
INVESTMENTS:
Unitech: High-risk, high-return deposit
The fixed deposit scheme of Unitech is suitable for investors who can stomach some risk. The sharp downturn witnessed in the real estate sector, fund crisis faced by many players in the sector and the slow pick-up in demand for real estate ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Energy conservation in old buildings
“Switch off all lights and fans when you leave the room” notices are a familiar sight in many offices. No doubt, obeying these notices is probably one of the most effective and least expensive of ways to cut down on the ...
ECONOMICS:
How fashion shows drive demand
My friend has always wondered about the rationale behind fashion shows. For one, the clothes and accessories are often not functional. For another, they are frightfully expensive. Logically then, these shows ought to be a waste of time, as ...
INVESTMENTS:
Theme Funds: Optimal to custom-tailor portfolios
Investors like theme funds. These are funds that construct portfolios based on certain innovative or next-generation ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Pivotals: Reliance Industries (Rs 1,048.9)
The rocky ride in the RIL counter continued last week as the stock first raced to an intra-week high of Rs 1,110 before plunging to a low of Rs 1,011. Since the stock is now trading at ex-bonus rate, all our resistances and supports need to ...
EVENTS:
Biz Quiz Answers
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REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
RE/MAX upbeat on Asia
RE/MAX, the international real estate brokerage franchise network, has expanded into eight States with 28 offices since April when it started operations in India. It is present in Delhi, Punjab, Chandigarh, Gujarat, Karnataka, ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
How to choose ‘international' funds
I am holding the following mutual funds: Birla Sunlife International Equity Plan A. ICICI Pru Indo Asia Equity, Tata Indo Global Infrastructure. All these funds were bought during their NFOs in October/November 2007.Kindly advice if I ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Bull's Eye
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STOCK MARKETS:
Baskets of X
E-mail your guess before Tuesday ...
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