Sensex, Nifty end with small gains : Sify Finance

Sensex, Nifty end with small gains
Nifty at 6950, Sensex 22880 by July 2008
India's Sensex Has Longest Winning Run

NSE 6081.50 10.75
BSE 20216.72 24.20

The market, despite mixed global cues, opened on a high note this morning. Barring information technology stocks, other blue chips surged higher in early trade and quite a few of them held on to their gains thanks to selective buying support even as the benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty drifted lower around noon.

As the mood turned highly cautious, large and midcap stocks had a highly choppy afternoon session today. The Sensex did manage a smart rally around mid-afternoon but declined sharply once again following a fairly strong bout of resistance.

All through this, smallcap stocks held firm thanks to sustained buying interest. The Sensex, which opened at 20,301.05 and edged up to 20,323.76 in early trade today, ended the session at 20,216.72 with a gain of 24.20 points or 0.12%, and Nifty closed with a gain of 0.18% or 10.75 points at 6081.50, around 30 points down from its intra-day high of 6110.85. While the Sensex touched a low of 20,159.73 today, the Nifty had eased to 6060.20 in afternoon trade.

Among the sectoral indices, the Consumer Durables index finished with a strong gain of 1.79%. The Bankex, FMCG, Metal and PSU indices ended stronger by 0.7% - 1% while the Power index moved up by 0.34%. BSE Oil & Gas edged up marginally while the Capital Goods index ended with a small loss. The Auto, IT, Healthcare, Realty and Teck indices lost 0.25% - 0.75%.
Though as many as 14 Sensex components ended in the positive territory, only HDFC Bank (2.8%), Wipro (2.55%), ICICI Bank (1.85%), ITC (1.85%), Tata Steel (1.55%) and Reliance Energy (1.1%) closed with sharp gains.

Hindalco, which failed to find support at higher levels, ended 0.7% up at Rs 210.80, more than Rs 5 down from its intra-day high of Rs 216.05. HDFC, ONGC, Hindustan Unilever, NTPC, Tata Consultancy Services, Maruti Suzuki and BHEL finished with marginal gains.

Tata Motors lost a little over 2%. Satyam Computer Services (down 1.7%), Reliance Communications (down 1.65%) and Bharti Airtel (down 1.65%) also declined sharply. Ranbaxy Laboratories, Larsen & Toubro, Grasim Industries, State Bank of India, Mahindra & Mahindra and Infosys Technologies lost 0.5% - 1%. Cipla, Ambuja Cements, DLF and Bajaj Auto also closed on a weak note. Reliance Industries and ACC ended with small losses.

Nalco, which shot up by 9.25%, was the biggest gainer in the Nifty pack. Idea Cellular, Suzlon Energy, SAIL, Sterlite Industries and Cairn India also ended on a firm note.

Reliance Petroleum, Sun Pharmaceuticals, HCL Technologies, Zee Entertainment, Punjab National Bank and ABB ended with sharp losses. Shipping Corporation of India vaulted 13.85% to Rs 294.35. Nirma, Mirc Electronics, CMC, Raymond, Alok Industries, HTMT Global, Tata Elxsi, Castrol India, Adani Enterprises, Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers, Indo Rama Synthetics, Sterling Biotech, GE Shipping, Aventis Pharma, JSW Steel and Hinduja Ventures posted impressive gains.

Midcap stocks ISMT, Tulip IT, ABG Shipyard, Educomp Solutions, Crisil, Emami, Motherson Sumi, 3M India, India Infoline, Gujarat NRE Coke, Infotech Enterprises, Aptech, Vishal Retail, SpiceJet and REI Agro had a bright outing today.

Sagar Cements, KRBL, Kalindee Rail Nirman Engineers, ICSA, Era Constructions, Suven Life, Federal Mogul Goetze, Hindustan Organic Chemicals, Gwalior Chemicals, Inox Leisure, Cosmo Films, Nelcast, BSEL Infrastructure, Rain Commodities, Everonn Systems, Mercator Lines and Karuturi Network were among the big gainers in the Smallcap index, which shot up by 2.32% today.

Thanks to widespread buying in midcap and smallcap space, the market breadth remained pretty strong today. Out of 2953 stocks traded on BSE, 2069 stocks ended with gains. 841 stocks posted losses and 43 stocks ended at their previous closing levels.

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Sensex among top performers in 2007

Sensex among top performers in 2007

India's BSE Sensex has been among the top performers in 2007. If we keep China’s Shanghai Composite aside, which has given a return of over 95%, India stands second with a return of 44% just below Jakarta which gave return of 47%. Brazil and Hang Seng gave smart returns of over 40% followed by Korea and Strait Times. Taiwan was almost flat and Nikkei 225 gave negative return of -11.43%.

Also Sensex has been consistent in and has given areturn of over 40% in the last three years. In 2005 it gave a return of over 42% and in 2006 it was up over 46%.


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Myiris, Moneycontrol UPdates

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IPOs: India 5th largest market

IPOs: India 5th largest market
Rediff India

Indian bourses saw over $8 billion worth of initial public offers in 2007, but this is just a shade higher than the world's single-largest IPO that was brought by a Russian company, latest data show.
The worldwide IPO activity raised a record capital of $255 billion till November in 2007, including $8.3 billion on Indian bourses, according to data compiled by international consultancy firm Ernst and Young.
India was the fifth largest market in terms of number of IPOs and seventh largest in terms of the proceeds for the year, E&Y said.
There were 95 IPOs in the first 11 months, while the preliminary data for the month of December shows that the total number for the year would be more than 100, it noted. China came tops with total IPO proceeds of $54.4 billion through 222 issues.
Globally, there were as many as 1,739 IPOs between January and November, while another 91 public issues are estimated to have hit the capital markets during December. The largest IPO of the year came from Russia's VTB Bank, which alone raised $8 billion.
In India, the largest IPO of the year was brought by realty giant DLF which raised about Rs 9,187.50 crore (more than $2 billion).
E&Y said the strength of India's economy, stock market, corporate profits and private equity fuelled IPOs in 2007. In the previous year, the market had seen 78 IPOs raising $7.23 billion.
The study said 14 of the top 20 IPOs were from emerging BRIC markets and the surge in Indian IPO activity was a clear reflection of the growth in the Indian economy and the investor's confidence.
Together, the four BRIC countries -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- have raised $106.5 billion in 382 deals so far this year compared to $89.6 billion raised in 302 deals in the same period of 2006.
Asia-Pacific accounted for 46 per cent of the worldwide IPO league, ahead of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) which together accounted for 35 per cent and North America with 14 per cent.
EMEA and Asia-Pacific have the greatest market share of capital raised with 38 per cent and 32 per cent, respectively, eclipsing North America (16 per cent) and Central and South America (14 per cent).
Despite accounting for only 4 per cent of the total number of IPOs so far this year, HKSE was the leading exchange by capital raised, attracting a 13 per cent market share, mainly due to having some of the year's largest listings, including China CITIC Bank and China Railway.
NYSE was ranked second in terms of capital raised (11 per cent), attracting 3.6 per cent of total listings driven by a number of large US deals, including Blackstone Group and MF Global.
Although only 2 per cent of IPOs through November listed on LSE, it attracted 10 per cent of the capital raised, mainly through a few large Russian deals, including VTB Bank and Pik Group.

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Biz Newsmakers 2007 : Rediff India

Biz Newsmakers 2007
The year India Inc made it big.


Fantastic is the only way one could describe what 2007 has been like for Ratan Naval Tata, the chairman of Tata Group.
He led India's largest corporate house to the nation's biggest overseas acquisition on January 31, when Tata Steel -- after a long drawn battle -- pipped Brazil's CSN to acquire Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus for $13.2 billion. The merger created the fifth largest steel producing entity in the world.
Tata's brainchild, the Rs 1 lakh People's Car (which will be unveiled in New Delhi on January 10, 2008), was one of the most hotly discussed and debated issues of 2007. And while the Tatas get ready to launch the car in the Indian markets, the company has gone ahead and bid $2.05 billion to buy out British marquees Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford. Reports indicate that the Tatas have emerged as the preferred bidder for the two iconic brands of Ford Motors.

Also, during 2007, Tata firm Indian Hotels bought the Ritz-Carlton, Boston, while Tata Coffee acquired the US coffee chain Eight O'Clock.
The Tata Group was also named the world's third most accountable and transparent company in 2007 by Britain's One World Trust. Tata beat Coca-Cola, HSBC, PriceWaterCooopers and Google, when measured on the parameters of transparency and accountable leadership among global companies.

The annual Global Accountability Report also considered Tata Group at number 10, among the world's 30 most powerful organisations from the inter-governmental, non-governmental and corporate sector, to be accountable to civil society, affected communities and wider public.

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America's best big companies : Sify Finance

America's best big companies
Article sources : From Forbes.com thro Sify.com


This is our 10th year of selecting the 400 Best Big Companies in America. Our methodology for choosing the winners is so stringent that 165 companies from last year's 400 did not make the cut for 2008. Not only must companies pass our benchmarks for financial growth rates and returns, they must also meet our approval for their corporate governance, accounting standards and background checks.

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As a group, our latest roster of Platinum 400 companies looks more like fast-growing upstarts than established, big, corporations. The median company on the list shows 16% sales growth and 28% earnings-per-share growth over the latest 12 months. As an investment, the median Platinum company on this year's list has a 12-month gain of 15%, versus 6% for the S&P 500 index.

We assign each Platinum 400 company to one of 26 industries; from each industry, our writers and editors then select a top-tier corporation as the best-managed company in that industry. In making their selections, our editorial staff considers not only our initial financial and quality screens, but also subjective factors such as management ability, innovation and leadership. From these 26 companies, our staff also picks the Forbes Company of the Year.

Our editors' choice for the company of the year: Nvidia. Co-founded by CEO Jen-Hsun Huang in 1993, the chip maker has gone on to regain the lead in the lucrative market for graphic processors aimed at hardcore gamers. Its annualized five-year results are impressive, too: sales growth of 15%, earnings per share of 36%. Over the same period, Nvidia shareholders profited from a 42% annualized total return. Nvidia is now racing to develop its next generation of chips as it faces new challenges fromIntel and Advanced Micro Devices.

What about the other 25 industries? In chemicals, we cite Mosaic as the best-managed of the group. The $6 billion (revenues) Minneapolis fertilizer manufacturer was forbed by the 2004 combination of IMC Global and the Crop Nutrition division of Cargill, a private company.
Mosaic took restructuring charges in May 2006 related to closing its higher-cost phosphate operations, and this write-off led to a loss for fiscal 2006. The restructuring--and higher fertilizer prices--helped Mosaic deliver profits of $616 million on revenue of $6.5 billion in the last 12 months. In its most recent quarter, through August 2007, Mosaic pre-paid $700 million in long-term debt; debt-to-capital now stands at 24%, versus 34% in the prior August quarter.
Our best-managed choice in food, drink & tobacco is PepsiCo.Chief Executive Indra Nooyi is looking abroad to growing economies such as China, India and Russia. Another PepsiCo focus is on healthier initiatives for its beverages and snacks, such as developing a low-calorie Gatorade, cutting trans fats, and selling chips that are baked instead of fried, plus Flat Earth, a line of fruit and vegetable crisps.

PepsiCo is a member of our platinum honor roll, a select list of 21 companies that have appeared on the Platinum 400 in each of the past 10 years. Another feature highlights the 10 out of 165 newcomers that have produced the best annual total return over the past five years.

Our comeback companies report acknowledges some of the corporations that have returned to the Platinum 400 after an absence of one or more years. Among them are AAR and Arrow Electronics, both of which are making their first appearance on the list since 1999.
Finally, we look at stock market returns for the 2007 Platinum 400. Over the past 12 months, last year's list of the 400 Best Big Companies in America has a 4% median price gain, two percentage points below the performance of the S&P 500. Our narrower selections of best-managed companies--one from each of 26 industries--fares much better, with a 19% median increase.

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We cannot claim our current list of 400 companies will top the performance of Wall Street indexes over the next 12 months, but our list can be a useful starting point for selecting individual stocks. After all, they have already passed our strict standards to be named among the Best Big Companies in America.


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