Realty stocks shot up after the government announced a so-called bailout stimulus. But the ground reality about realty is far less exciting. Three recent research reports by broking companies paint a particularly grim picture. Enam Securities, which has better research capabilities among the broking firms, believes that the real estate sector is likely to witness more pain in the near term...

Without some sense of when to buy, you will get poor returns and evenlose capital invested in a fund

One of the key tenets of the fund industry is that it is impossible to time the market and, therefore, you should remain invested through ups and downs, through thick and thin. Wrong advice. One, the idea is self-serving. Fund companies make money on the assets they collect from you. Their...

We had mentioned in the previous issue that the fall in the market, as represented by the Sensex, seemed to be over. We had suggested that it was time for a short rally which would, in all probability, end; this time too, it was important to watch whether the Sensex held the 8,700 level. If it did, at least on the weekly-chart basis, it would mean that the phase of steep declines was ...