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Swapnil Suvarna 25 January 2010
Weak global cues continued to weigh on Indian market sentiments Indian markets continued to slide downwards on the back of weak global cues. However, the market bounced back from the day’s low (16,706) to make a high of 16,878, which it failed to sustain. At the end of the day, the Sensex...

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Cybercrime has moved on from amateur teenage hackers to a sophisticated business run with all the trimmings Recently, the email account (Hotmail) of Kumar Ketkar, editor of Marathi daily Loksatta was hacked into, and the hackers sent out fraudulent mails to his friends and acquaintances...

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“Don’t fall in love with your stocks; they can’t love you back.”— Anon. “In the long run, we are all dead.” — John Maynard Keynes Looking for a stock for the next decade? It makes no sense One of the commonest questions investors ask is: “Which stocks are really great for the long term? It...

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Debashis Basu  and   Swapnil Suvarna 25 January 2010
Performance patterns over the past nine overlapping decades show that the market is now too expensive for funds as a whole to do well over the next 10 years. Still, there are many good funds to choose from Mutual funds (MFs) are supposed to be the best option for those who do not know enough...

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If the risky moves of Madhucon Projects, the benefits would be huge Infrastructure development may not be progressing as fast as we would like, but the sector still means good business for a lot of companies. Work on highways, irrigation and water-supply projects, dams, sewage treatment...

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GIPCL’s expansion is about to be completed. It will significantly add to its returns Power company stocks have been hot for a while but we have picked a couple of stocks that still have some steam left. Given India’s need for power, this sector will enjoy long-term demand growth. Look at...

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Swapnil Suvarna 23 January 2010
More downside on the cards Last week, we had headlined our newsletter as “Make or Break”, declaring that a big move was coming. We had said, “Watch 17,200 on the Sensex for a major decline.”Our logic was that the “market’s trading band has narrowed down to an extreme. This usually presages a...

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Swapnil Suvarna 22 January 2010
US President’s comments weighed heavily on Indian and Asian markets The Indian market continued its downtrend following weak global cues after US President Barack Obama proposed limiting risk-taking at US banks. The market however recovered from the day’s low (16,608) on the back of Reliance...

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Ravi Samalad  and   Swapnil Suvarna 22 January 2010
Bharti AXA has launched an infrastructure fund. But 12 out of the 20 infrastructure funds have underperformed their benchmarks Bharti AXA Investment Managers has launched the ‘Bharti AXA Focused Infrastructure Fund’ which would mainly have exposure to sectors identified as pure infrastructure...

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Ravi Samalad  and   Swapnil Suvarna 21 January 2010
The past performances of global funds have been modest in India. They cannot help Indian funds raise money abroad either because an alliance between a foreign and an Indian fund is of limited value Almost all top foreign fund houses are vying for a share of the investors’ money, but their...

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Swapnil Suvarna 21 January 2010
Weak global cues coupled with disappointing December quarter results from major companies pulled markets down Indian markets continued their downward fall, following weak global cues even as bullish economic data from China further raised concerns of policy tightening. Disappointing December...

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Sanket Dhanorkar  and   Ravi Samalad 21 January 2010
High interest costs will feature as a permanent expenditure on these companies’ books, leaving almost nothing for shareholders of these cash-guzzling businesses The December quarter results have thrown up a new reality show for two top television channels: large interest costs that are...

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R Balakrishnan on saving  and   investing prudently 21 January 2010
For an insurance company, it actually helps if clients default on policies that have not acquired any surrender value A business paper recently carried a story about life insurance policies worth over a trillion rupees which have lapsed. Some of the interesting bits are: i) A total of 9.1...

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Swapnil Suvarna 20 January 2010
Fear of China’s central bank tightening its lending norms pulled down Indian markets Indian markets remained highly volatile today, following weak global cues and on concerns that China’s central bank may tighten its lending norms. At the end of the day, the Sensex declined 12 points from the...

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Swapnil Suvarna 19 January 2010
Indian markets continued to slide on the back of weak global cues Weak global markets, along with fears of stimulus tightening by the Indian government, weighed heavily on market sentiments. The Sensex declined 155 points from the previous day’s close, ending the day at 17,486 while the Nifty...

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Ravi Samalad 19 January 2010
BNP Paribas has introduced its enhanced trading platform free of cost for its existing customers after ICICIdirect launched its TradeRacer a few months back The race for providing online trading platforms is gathering pace. Brokerage houses are doing all they can to woo traders to trade more...

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Ravi Samalad 19 January 2010
BNP Paribas has introduced its enhanced trading platform free of cost for its existing customers after ICICIdirect launched its TradeRacer a few months back The race for providing online trading platforms is gathering pace. Brokerage houses are doing all they can to woo traders to trade more...

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Swapnil Suvarna 18 January 2010
Indian markets shrugged off weak global trends, closing the day on a positive note During the day, Indian markets opened in positive territory on fresh buying, but shed momentum later due to weak global cues. The Sensex was up 87 points from Friday’s (15 January 2010) close, ending the day at...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 January 2010
A big move is coming. Watch 17,200 on the Sensex for a major decline Last week, we had said that it is becoming hard for the market to continue to climb. Over an entire week, the Sensex went up by just 14 points. Indian markets opened the week strong on the back of firm trade data from China...

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Subrata Das 15 January 2010
The market’s trading band has narrowed. It will not stay that way and will be resolved with a massive move. Will it be up or down? The Sensex edged higher in early trading on Friday, tracking the rise in Asian stocks. However, it pared off early gains very soon and was mostly flat for the...

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