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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Index OutlookSentiment on Indian bourses seesawed between hope and despair last week. The strong mid-week surge caused by crude oil’s decline below $110 was thwarted by the global wave of selling in equities that seeped into the Indian stock markets, ...

AUTOMOBILES: Automobiles: Working on a better product mixThe pause in demand due to high interest rates coupled with rising input costs have battered the auto sector in recent times. Raw material costs for five majors — Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, Mahindra and Mahindra, Maruti Suzuki and ...


ENGINEERING: Capital goods: New moves on procurementCapital goods companies have begun to feel the heat from spiralling commodity prices. The average operating profit margins of companies in this space have fallen a good two percentage points, to about 16 per cent, in the June quarter. Raw ...

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION: Infrastructure: The escalation clauses start kicking inEfforts by infrastructure and construction companies to protect margins have revolved around attempts to pass on raw material price hikes to clients. Steel, cement, bitumen and diesel can account for as much as 60-65 per cent of the total ...

STOCKS: SAIL: BuyInvestors can consider buying the SAIL India stock, now trading at a price-earnings multiple of about 8.2 times its 2007-08 earnings. The valuation is at a discount compared to Tata Steel (9.4 times) and global steel majors. SAIL’s ...

MUTUAL FUNDS: Tata Equity P/E Fund: InvestInvestments can be considered in Tata Equity P/E Fund based on its improved performance over the past two years. The fund underperformed the benchmark Sensex by a significant margin in 2006, thus impacting its last three-year performance. ...

MUTUAL FUNDS: Sundaram BNP Paribas Select Midcap Fund: HoldInvestors can continue to hold the units of Sundaram BNP Paribas Select Midcap Fund (Sundaram Midcap), considering its long-term track record in generating returns. The fund has delivered an annual return of 42.1 per cent over a five-year ...

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Query Corner: What the charts sayPlease let me have your views on Ashok Leyland bought at Rs 56 and Jayaswal Neco purchased at Rs 81. Chandra ...

STOCKS: PSL: BuyInvestments with a long-term perspective can be considered in the stock of PSL, which is the country’s largest manufacturer of high grade helical pipes. ...

STOCK MARKETS: Bull's EyeE-mail your response by Tuesday to STOCK MARKETS: Baskets of XE-mail your guess before Tuesday to: TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Tata SteelTata Steel moved listlessly between Rs 580 and Rs 600 in the early part of the week before recording a new closing low for 2008 on Friday. ...

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Reliance Infra (September 07, 2008)
Unitech (September 07, 2008)
Infosys (September 07, 2008)
Tata Steel (September 07, 2008)
SBI (September 07, 2008)
Reliance (September 07, 2008)
Tech School: Descending triangles (September 07, 2008)
Index Outlook (September 07, 2008)
Query Corner: What the charts say (September 07, 2008

STOCKS: Everest Kanto Cylinders: BuyFresh investments can be considered in the stock of Everest Kanto Cylinders, a leading manufacturer of high-pressure CNG (compressed natural gas) and industrial cylinders. At the current market price of Rs 288, the stock trades at about 14 ...

STOCKS: Bank of Baroda: HoldBank of Baroda (BoB) shareholders can consider staying invested in the stock at the current price of Rs 294.65. The stock trades at 1.13 times the company’s 2007-08 book value and 7.5 times the earnings, translating into 0.93 times ...

DERIVATIVES MARKETS: Nifty future may drift lowerMarkets seem to have lost their momentum midway. After witnessing wild swings intra-week, the Nifty September future finished marginally lower at 4352.2 points against the previous week’s close of 4370.55, shedding little over 0.4 per ...

STOCK MARKETS: Beta exposure: Is direct investment better than index funds?Readers may be aware of the core-satellite approach to portfolio management. This involves constructing a core portfolio for the beta (market) exposure and a satellite portfolio for the alpha (excess) returns. There were couple of interesting ...

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