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Moneylife Digital Team 05 April 2010
Stock markets have rallied for the past five consecutive quarters. How will the markets perform in the coming quarter? Moneylife’s study of similar historical patterns points to a 100% negative trend The thirty-share BSE Sensex has been on a roll for the past five quarters. Although the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 April 2010
Markets may remain bullish as easy money continues to slosh through global bourses Markets ended the week with a wining streak. This is the eighth continued week markets closed higher against the previous week. Although the market slid for the first three days of the week, it rebounded on...

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Pallabika Ganguly 02 April 2010
A bunch of vested interests seem to be working together to fuel India’s new property bubble, especially in expensive real-estate markets like Mumbai Real-estate prices in India, which are already reaching for the stratosphere, are being further fuelled by a set of vested interests such as...

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Ravi Samalad 02 April 2010
Average assets under management of the 37 fund houses fell 5% in March; JPMorgan Mutual Fund plummeted 24% while Peerless and Edelweiss jumped 150% and 30% respectively According to data available with the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI), out of the 37 fund houses, the average...

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Amritha Pillay 02 April 2010
An analysis of the monthly dispatch figures and the newly-commissioned capacities indicates a clear annual over-capacity of a minimum of 36.27MT in the demand-supply situation Over the past few months, the cement industry has been enjoying an upward momentum in cement prices due to the peak...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 April 2010
We bring you an analysis of the major sectoral leaders and laggards for the March quarter The Sensex has only marginally risen from its December quarter closing (17,465) to end up at 17,528 for the March quarter. However, for the past few weeks, the index has been chugging ahead at a fast...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 April 2010
Although a demat account has nothing to do with the derivatives segment, some brokers like MF Global are insisting on this requirement A derivatives trading account has nothing to with a demat account. A demat account is needed to transact in shares in the cash segment where deliveries of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 April 2010
Although a demat account has nothing to do with the derivatives segment, some brokers like MF Global are insisting on this requirement A derivatives trading account has nothing to with a demat account. A demat account is needed to transact in shares in the cash segment where deliveries of...

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Debashis Basu  and   Pallabika Ganguly 01 April 2010
The Unilever CEO believes that HUL is still the lion in several categories. He is living in his own world. Over the past decade, HUL has repeatedly tried and failed in a large number of new businesses, which makes it look like an also-ran A few days back, the chief executive officer of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 April 2010
Fixed deposit holders should watch out. Banks may be snatching a part of the principal under the garb of deducting tax at source Would you think twice before investing in a fixed deposit? The obvious answer would be a resounding ‘no’. But what if a bank is nibbling away at your principal in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 April 2010
Fixed deposit holders should watch out. Banks may be snatching a part of the principal under the garb of deducting tax at source Would you think twice before investing in a fixed deposit? The obvious answer would be a resounding ‘no’. But what if a bank is nibbling away at your principal in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 April 2010
Markets may remain bullish over the short term, if global cues remain strong The market ended on a strong note today, driven by firm global equity markets. It started the day with a gain. However, it slid soon after that and traded range-bound till afternoon. It regained strength in the...

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Amritha Pillay 01 April 2010
More and more road developers are seeking underwriters for their road projects in order to achieve financial closure faster and bid for more national projects With the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) insisting on financial closure of existing projects—or at least a financial...

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Ravi Samalad 01 April 2010
Banking channels are starting to gain a foothold for selling mutual funds, but will this new distribution model help out investors? Many private banks are already selling mutual funds (MFs) and now public sector banks are planning to enter this space. According to media reports, the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 March 2010
The central bank’s directive to calculate interest rate on savings deposits on a daily basis is likely to dent a big hole in bankers’ books One of the leading public sector banks has told Moneylife that under the new system, its interest outgo would increase by Rs250 crore in the coming year....

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 March 2010
The market trend is down; it will probably move sideways with a downward bias Markets were volatile throughout the day. They started off on a strong note, but soon pared gains and took a dive. Trading was range-bound for the rest of the day. The trend was downwards.  The BSE Sensex ended the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 March 2010
The market has risen in the March quarter. Based on past patterns, what should we expect? Here is a study of the historical behaviour of the markets over the past 25 years After witnessing a few jitters in the month of January, stock markets have rebounded well to end the March quarter on a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 March 2010
The market has risen in the March quarter. Based on past patterns, what should we expect? Here is a study of the historical behaviour of the markets over the past 25 years After witnessing a few jitters in the month of January, stock markets have rebounded well to end the March quarter on a...

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Ravi Samalad 31 March 2010
The market watchdog has extended the deadline for implementation of its ‘dealings between a client and a stock broker’ mandate till 30 June 2010 and will leave it to the stock exchages to handle sticky issues Market watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has given breathing...

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Ravi Samalad 31 March 2010
The market watchdog has extended the deadline for implementation of its ‘dealings between a client and a stock broker’ mandate till 30 June 2010 and will leave it to the stock exchages to handle sticky issues Market watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has given breathing...

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