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INVESTMENT WORLD
FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS:
Euphoria is short-lived
Qualified Institutional Placements. Qualified Institutional Placements (QIPs) have created a buzz in the stock market in recent months, with companies raising QIP funds seeing a surge in stock prices in the run-up to such offers, foreign ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Index Outlook: Market keeps everyone guessing
Market was at its provoking best last week. It rallied higher in the early part of the week, but not enough to make the bulls perk up. Then it declined, but so slightly that the bears were left unsatisfied as well. The close was on a very ...
INSIGHT:
Why gold prices are at dazzling highs
If you had set your heart on new jewellery and were waiting for gold prices to dip ‘just a little’ before you made that purchase, gold’s recent price moves may have had you grinding your teeth ...
STOCKS:
Tata Elxsi: Buy
STOCKS:
Neyveli Lignite Corp: Book Profits
Investors can consider booking partial profits in the Neyveli Lignite Corporation stock as valuations have run ahead of fundamentals, driven by divestment ...
STOCKS:
Phillips Carbon Black: Buy
The passenger car industry is on a strong growth path. Although commercial vehicles have posted a more tentative recovery, a near 5 per cent year-to-date growth in domestic sales from the steep declines last year offers hope of an early ...
STOCKS:
Hotel Leelaventure: Hold
Shareholders can retain their exposure to the stock of Hotel Leelaventure, which owns and operates a chain of luxury hotels across the ...
STOCKS:
Chart Focus: United Sprits (Rs 1,195.2): Buy
Investors with medium-term perspective can consider buying the stock of United Sprits. Following steady decline from Rs 2,160 to Rs 425 over a year, the stock reversed from the long-term support range between Rs 400-425.The stock has been on ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Kotak Opportunities Fund: Invest
Investors can buy the units of Kotak Opportunities fund considering its long-term performance. Over a five-year period the fund clocked an annualised return of 30 per cent and outpaced its benchmark S&P CNX500 by nine percentage points ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Stocks Strategy: Consider short straddle in Tata Teleservices
Tata Teleservices Maharashtra (Rs 25.9): The stock has been in a downtrend for quite sometime. It faces a strong resistance at Rs 33 and so as long as it stays below that level, the weak trend is likely to persist. However, it ...
DERIVATIVES MARKETS:
Index Strategy: Bull spread for high-risk traders
The coming week being the derivative expiry week promises to showcase a lot of volatility. So even though the overall bias is positive, traders may have to brace themselves for wild swings in option premiums. A risky proposition and hence ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
ICICI Pru Balanced Fund: Sell
Investors can consider selling their holdings in ICICI Pru Balanced Fund (ICICI Balanced) considering that its performance has lagged its benchmark as well as peers consistently. The fund trailed its benchmark Crisil Balanced Fund Index over ...
STOCK EXCHANGES:
New SME guidelines: Compromising on liquidity
The Securities and Exchanges Board of India (SEBI) recently laid down guidelines for the listing and trading of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). These guidelines have made it easier and less expensive for such companies to raise equity. But ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Footpaths, not highways, the mark of a good city
Governments need to build large land banks around growing cities if they are serious about housing for all. Land around growing cities cannot completely be in private hands if prices are to come down, says Mr Enrique Penalosa, President, Board ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Query Corner: Bharti Airtel remains in structural uptrend
I have bought shares of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) at Rs 80. Should I hold for the long-term or exit at current level or buy ...
INVESTMENTS:
Why bond markets need a leg-up
The Indian financial sector is rapidly transforming, marked by strong economic growth, robust markets and greater efficiency. However, compared to its world-class equity markets, India’s corporate bond market is still in an embryonic ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Model law raises concerns
Developers see implementation hurdles and cost overruns. The Model Real Estate (Regulation of Development) Act has the developers concerned as they believe it poses issues in implementation and cost overruns. The Ministry of Housing and Urban ...
PENSION PLANS:
Pay agent fee in instalments
Committee recommendations vs insurance sector. The Swarup committee recommendations for the insurance industry – calling for the abolition of selling commissions borne by policyholders – have made the players unhappy. The regulator, ...
REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION:
Green buildings gaining acceptance
The green building concept, spearheaded by CII and the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), seems to be gaining acceptance in Kerala following the efforts taken up by the Kochi Chapter of IGBC to create awareness among the people on the ...
ECONOMICS:
Keynes’ thoughts on investing
John Maynard Keynes – the name rings a bell for several reasons, an economist who proposed government spending to fight slowdowns and the one who predicted the rise of Germany under the Third Reich, due to the harsh reparation terms for ...
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Pivotals: Reliance Industries (Rs 2,125.1)
It was a bumpy ride for investors on the Reliance counter as the stock first rose to Rs 2,163 then plunged to a low of Rs 2,051 only to recoup all the losses in the second part of Friday’s session to close the week on a flat note. The ...
MARKETING:
Nudged by the payment design
One of my friends had an interesting experience at a recently-opened mall in one of the metros. As you are aware, all malls have a large food court. And so does this mall, except that it is different. This mall requires you to buy food ...
EVENTS:
Biz Quiz
#1. Both companies make chocolates. One is based in Italy and produces the well-known Kinder Chocolates. The other makes the chocolate shown in the picture above. Recently, they have joined hands to counter bid a hostile ...
INTERVIEW:
‘Give priority to public bus transport’
Roads and bridges cannot support efficient urban transport systems but public transport systems can. The solution to urban mobility is in an efficient allocation of road space with priority for a well-designed public ...
INVESTMENTS:
Funds for senior citizens
We are senior citizens. We do not need any income from mutual funds for our day-to-day living. We are conservative investors with average risk taking ability and with an expectation of minimum 10-12 per cent yearly tax free ...
BOOKS:
Do good, intelligently
How can you tell which charities function effectively? Exploring this question is a whole chapter in The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer (
NEW FUND OFFER:
Focus on intrinsic value
Fidelity India Value Fund. Funds that adhere to “value investing” aren’t all that common in the Indian context, with just a handful of the over 200 diversified equity funds positioned as value-oriented funds. Fidelity Mutual ...
CORPORATE BONDS:
Check if debt could do them apart
Debt has attained a hallowed status in the world of finance and evokes myriad reactions, with some using it liberally to set up, run and expand business, even as the conservative assiduously avoid ...
INVESTMENTS:
How many funds should you hold?
Investors like to hold a number of mutual funds in their portfolios in the name of diversification. A typical portfolio would, hence, have exposure to several diversified funds, style and sector funds. But as one reader asked us: Is ...
MUTUAL FUNDS:
Update
DSP BlackRock Mutual Fund has launched DSP BlackRock World Mining Fund, an open-ended equity scheme. The fund’s objective to seek capital appreciation by investing predominantly in the units of BlackRock Global Funds ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Bull's Eye
E-mail your response before Tuesday ...
STOCK MARKETS:
Baskets of X
E-mail your guess before Tuesday ...
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