Issue of 26th Apr-2nd May 2019
LEAD ARTICLE
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Bull Market: Running on Hope & Prayer?
Intoxicated by a massive rally in March-April, perhaps in anticipation of the Modi government coming back to power, stock market investors have turned sanguine. They believe that all is well with the bull market that began in early-March 2014, when stock prices started anticipating a victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by,... Read More
CROSSHAIRS
In less than three years since it was promulgated, the highly touted Insolvency & Bankruptcy Act (IBC) is going the way of a dozen previous statutes that failed to fix our ‘bad loans’ problem. As always, regulators and courts have contributed to delays and confusion.    The...
STOCKS
Tata Elxsi Limited (TEL) has just announced its results which are uninspiring. In fact, it has posted its lowest quarterly growth since December 2010. Sales went up 8% year-on-year (y-o-y) and operating profit (OP) was up 3.16% y-o-y.   Operating margin contracted to 24.20% in...
Moneylife Digital Team
Guidelines  1. The Grader captures the first two of the three intrinsic factors that drive a stock: valuation, returns and growth. Since growth is volatile and difficult to capture through a metric, we have used only the first two factors. In place of growth, we have provided long-term...
Moneylife Digital Team
MUTUAL FUNDS
Investors have a love-hate relationship with equities. The lure of high returns and several-fold capital growth props up many castles in the air! Usually, these are followed with risk of loss of capital and time which keeps us grounded. This is where the entire investment services industry...
Clinton Fernandes
MOBILE APPS
TECHNOLOGY
In old movies, especially spy movies, we would often see a person trying to place a mike for recording conversations in a hidden place. Later, hidden mobile phone (with auto-answering feature) was shown as being used to listen to the conversations. However, with the new age smart voice...
HEALTH
Insufficient consumption of fruits and vegetables is a well-known dietary problem today; many try to make up for it by taking supplements. Dietary supplements are being consumed under the belief that they are an easy way to get the essential nutrients for our body. However, new research has...
Akshay Naik
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