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INSIGHT: Brisk sales growth amid rising input costs
June quarter results. Corporate India saw a brisk pace of growth in net sales during the first quarter, no doubt; but an analysis of the results reveals that the increase in input costs and the rising interest burden are holding back earnings ...

STOCKS: Kalindee Rail Nirman Engineers: Buy
Investments with a two-year perspective can be considered in the stock of Kalindee Rail Nirman Engineers, which is engaged in the business of signalling, telecommunications, gauge conversion and track-laying for the Indian Railways. A direct ...

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Index Outlook
The markets could not revel in plunging commodity prices for long as the spectre of slowing economic growth manifested itself once more in industrial production and in the economic outlook of the economic advisory council. Rate-sensitive ...

STOCKS: HDFC Bank: Hold
Investors with a one-year horizon can hold on to the HDFC Bank stock. Though the bank has sound financials, concerns about rising interest rates, higher cost of funds and compressing spreads have cut down valuations for banking stocks. ...

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Query Corner: What the charts say
I bought Hexaware Tech at Rs 125 and Graphite India at Rs 56. Kindly let me know the medium and long-term prospects of these stocks. Can I average Hexaware at current ...

ENVIRONMENT: Way to a zero-waste city
Solid waste management (SWM) is one of the major problems confronting cities in developing countries today. Kerala has ‘hit a blind alley’ in SWM with the failure in Kochi being one of the most reported. However, there is a ...

INSIGHT: The business of Olympics
As the flame of the Beijing Olympics 2008 was lit by the former Chinese ace gymnast Li Ning, its radiance seemed to reflect the country’s efforts to cast its light far and wide in an attempt to become an emerging Asian super ...

INVESTMENTS: Planning to fulfil your dreams
I am currently employed with an aircraft manufacturing company in the US as a consultant. ...

INTERVIEW: Demand secure for realty with right pricing
“The quality of supply and the pricing mechanism would be key determinants for the Indian real-estate market” opines Mr Ajoy Veer Kapoor, Founder & Managing Director, Saffron Asset Advisors. Mr Ajoy has actively managed and ...

INSIGHT: Mr Market is knocking at the door!
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for ...

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION: No room for laxity
Mr Banerjee spent the day on which he should have celebrated his ‘Griha Pravesh’ (the house warming ceremony ) in an advocate’s office. He had received a notice from a bank telling him that the house he had bought from ...

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Tech school: Continuation patterns


INTERVIEW: ‘2008 – a year of aberrations’

For an industry that is going through a rough patch, there is a lot of optimism among the developers. Mr J.C. Sharma, Managing Director, Sobha Developers, describes the construction industry as ‘the ...

BOOKS: Five Ms of gold investing
Mother Nature is heavily stacked against investors in gold exploration companies, yet you can find your way by using ‘the Five Ms’ strategy, say John Katz and Frank Holmes in ‘The Goldwatcher: Demystifying Gold ...

INCOME TAX: Sharing equally the profit or loss
I and my wife have a joint account, with a stock broker to trade in equity and derivatives. ...

INSIGHT: Cost pressures ease, but what of demand? What’s in store
Rising input costs, dearer borrowings and exceptional forex losses have been the key impediments to India Inc’s earnings growth this quarter. However, even if you look only at the sustainable profit picture, it isn’t too heartening. ...

STOCKS: Ranbaxy - Open Offer: Accept
Shareholders of Ranbaxy may use Daiichi Sankyo’s open offer (slated to begin from August 16) to book profits on the stock as the offer price is attractive. Japanese innovator drug company Daiichi Sankyo, in June this year, agreed to buy ...

STOCK MARKETS: Bull's Eye
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STOCK MARKETS: Baskets of X
E-mail your guess before Tuesday to:BasketsofX@gmail.com ...

ECONOMICS: In astrology, we believe
My friend regularly reads a column on astrology that comes in one of his favourite newspapers. Recently, he sold most of his equity investment because the column mentioned that he was likely to pass through a bad phase. Classical economists ...

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Tata Steel
The crash in Tata Steel last Tuesday resulted in a 5 per cent weekly loss. ...

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: SBI
This stock failed to move past the resistance at the zone between Rs 1500 and Rs 1600 indicated last week. ...

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Reliance
RIL recorded an intra-week peak at Rs 2375 last week before giving up some of its ...

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Unitech
Unitech made yet another attempt at getting past Rs 190 last Tuesday and reversed with a double top formation to decline to our first target at Rs 168. ...

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Infosys
Infosys adhered to our script very closely; reversing from the resistance zone between Rs 1700 and 1750 to decline to Rs 1580. ...

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Reliance Infra
Reliance Infrastructure reversed lower from an intra-week peak t Rs 1122 and declined to Rs 975. ...

STOCK MARKETS: Prominent bulk deals on NSE & BSE


STOCKS: Monsanto India: Buy
Investors with a two-three year horizon can buy the stock of Monsanto India, a leading producer and marketer of agricultural ...

MUTUAL FUNDS: Kotak Opportunities: Invest
Investors can buy the units of Kotak Opportunities Fund, considering its consistent track record in delivering returns since its inception and its ability to outperform its benchmark significantly during market upsides. The fund has been among ...

MUTUAL FUNDS: Reliance Equity: Hold
Unitholders can retain their holdings in Reliance Equity Fund based on its two-year track record. Reliance Equity is a diversified open-ended equity scheme but in the true sense, is quite different from pure diversified ...

MUTUAL FUNDS: International theme funds — Better insulated
The need to diversify into other global equities has never been as compulsive as it appears now. The market correction in May 2006, followed by short periods of turbulence in 2007 and the prolonged volatility in 2008, may have triggered the ...

CORPORATE: How to analyse a company
After you have decided that it is the right time to investin and identified the right industry to park your money, you should lay your hands on the right company. As Peter Lynch says, “Identifying the right industry but the wrong ...

INVESTMENTS: Using MFs for a low cost market exposure
Constructing a portfolio of mutual funds is not an easy exercise. It is important to diversify the portfolio so that a retail investor has exposure to the broad market. Yet, the portfolio should be small for ease of ...

DERIVATIVES MARKETS: Nifty may move in narrow band
The recent relief rally was arrested last week. The Nifty August future closed at 4434.9 against the previous week’s close of 4547.45, a decline of about 2.4 per cent over the previous week’s close. ...

MUTUAL FUNDS: Fund Talk
I am 30 and I have started SIPs in the following funds two months ago: Birla SunLife Frontline Equity, DSPML Top 100 Equity, HDFC Top 200,HSBC Equity, Kotak 30, Magnum Contra, Franklin India Prima Plus, Sundaram BNP Paribas ...

MUTUAL FUNDS: Update
With SEBI approving the joint venture between Bank of Baroda and Pioneer Investments, Bank of Baroda Mutual Fund will now be known as Baroda Pioneer Mutual ...






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