What is remarkable about Sun Pharma? Or for that matter, Hindustan Lever? Have you looked at Nestlé? What is the common thread that runs through these stocks? Well, between 22 January 2008 and 27 October 2008 – a period during which the Sensex halved from 15,332 to 7,697, these stocks bucked the trend and ended positive! They are part of a select group from our database of 1,278 stocks that...

In the last issue, we had mentioned that some institutional value-buying, which was anticipated, would provide a little respite to the market’s free fall. On the week-ended 24 October 2008, the Sensex terminated its fall at 8,701. In earlier issues, we had mentioned several levels at which the Sensex could have possibly taken support. None of these held, given the ferocity of the fall. On the...