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Shailendra Lotlikar  and   ML Research Desk 03 August 2006
These stocks offer an attractive combination - reported financial strength and price resilience. Shailendra Lotlikar and ML Research Desk analyse them The Indian market has seen the best of its time in the last three years, rising astronomically, backed by a solid institutional interest -...

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Market movement of the last two months has left investors bewildered. After rising 97% in one year to reach lifetime highs, the market fell sharply, losing almost 30% from the top since mid-May till mid-June. It, however, went on to recover that loss in the next month, before another...

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The line between “long-term investment” and speculation is thinner than you think, says Debashis Basu “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent” - John Maynard Keynes “One of the world’s most famous speculators, Warren Buffet, … .” - Victor Niederhoffer in The Education...

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Growth funds do not promise to make positive returns in a falling market. But they do promise to beat their benchmark indices. Well, except Reliance Mutual Fund, all large fund houses had almost all their funds underperforming the benchmark in the first quarter, finds ML Research Desk In the...

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ML Research Desk 03 August 2006
The Winners: Right on top is Unitech Limited a stock that has been rising ferociously for quite some time now. Unitech has two divisions: construction and real estate. It has also diversified into infrastructure-related projects like roads and highways. The stock has gained a phenomenal 333%...

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The current obsession of global markets is inflation and interest rates. Stocks fell in mid-July because of these concerns. The concerns are so huge that investors are brushing off robust growth in earnings, both in India and the US. The minutes of Federal Reserve's meeting on June 28-29...

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I had opened a Young Stars account with ICICI Bank in the name of my daughter, Shruthi Venkat, on 30th May 2006. On opening this account, we were supposed to get a camera as a gift. This was confirmed by the Sales Executive Mr. J. Anil Kumar. During the first week of June, we received...

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What stocks to keep an eye on, if the market keeps rallying? Here is what MoneyLIFE Indices suggest Our size-based broad market indices on a rolling three-month basis have seen a slight shuffle this time, though the broad direction remains the same we had identified two months ago: that the...

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ML Research Desk 03 August 2006
Introducing ML broad market indices for the MoneyLIFE sample of companies The market is yet to find a definite direction after the massive mid-May correction. Our proprietary broad market indices for various sizes debut this issue onwards offering an insight into price changes across the ML...

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They advise you not to time the market. But asset allocation funds do exactly the same thing under a pseudo-scientific label The market has been overvalued and volatile for months before the carnage of May and June. Should that worry equity funds since they ask you to invest for the long...

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We may not have his scale, but we can emulate Buffett’s focus, says Shreedhar Kanetkar Both of you,” Warren Buffett wrote to Bill and Melinda Gates on 26 June 2006, “have applied truly unusual intelligence, energy and heart to improving the lives of millions of fellow humans who have not been...

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Corporate earnings will remain strong in the first quarter for certain sectors. Will that be enough for stock prices to be sustained? We are entering another earnings season. What kind of growth are the key sectors supposed to report? Expect corporate earnings to be very strong for certain...

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Paint companies may do well. Energy is also showing early signs of promise, according to MoneyLIFE Sectoral Index ranking We have started tracking the performance of various sectors from our last issue through our proprietary indices. Based on the performance of each sectoral index on a 3-month...

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There are multiple reasons why steel is persistently raising hopes only to disappoint. Apart from the short term seasonal factors such as a slow pick up in the beginning of the financial year, immediately followed by the monsoons, a basic and globally-traded product like steel is quickly...

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TV News Channels and newspapers have a very high profile. But these are small businesses and more importantly, unprofitable businesses New Delhi Television Limited, which runs three general news and business news channels, reported pathetic first quarter results that the media seem to have...

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We had suggested that being a contrarian is not always a virtue. Contra funds are a fad and we did suggest that you do not get carried away by the glib marketing strategies of fund houses. We have been right so far, as the performance and stock picks of contra funds show. A detailed analysis by...

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How did the Balanced Funds do in the first quarter? Disastrously. Here is why you should avoid them and how you can create your own balanced funds. Analysis by ML Research Desk The Indian market has been suffering from huge volatility in the first quarter and steady market gains on the back...

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It has been brought to book by RBI, in a pathbreaking On 23 June 2006, Anirudha Datta received a rather curt sounding email that read as follows: Dear Customer, This is with reference to the "Fly For Sure" offer extended on your Citibank Card. We would request you to contact the local...

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You have a small flat. You can still pack in a lot. Namrata Asudani shows you how Most urban dwellers today are used to the idea of living in much smaller spaces than their parents. How to fit in everything and everyone into a small space, without the feeling of claustrophobia? Start by...

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Kotak Mutual Fund calls it Rising Star, Sundaram calls it Select Small Cap and ING Vysya calls it Competitive Upcoming Businesses. They have different names. But all these funds have the same objective: invest mainly in small-cap stocks. How do they define it? Kotak wants to invest in mid-cap...

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