Issue of 27th Mar-2nd Apr 2020
LEAD ARTICLE
Covid-19 Lockdown: Two Things Govt Needs To Do To Make It Work
Whenever the Prime Minister (PM) addresses the nation at 8 pm, it is anticipated with great trepidation. Twice, it triggered enormous panic. On 8th November 2016, when he announced the debilitating demonetisation of currency, and again on 24 March 2020, when he put the country into a drastic 21-day lockdown to beat the... Read More
STOCKS
India has enjoyed a boom in the consumption of mobile data. Data usage has grown by a whopping 47% in FY18-19 alone, and 4G has constituted 96% of all data traffic. While mobile telephone companies (telcos) are not exactly enjoying the fruits of this boom due to the highly disruptive role...
Moneylife Digital Team
One of the high-flying companies of the previous bull market was Quess Corp (Quess), an integrated business services-provider which was started in 2007. It has a unique business model -- offering outsourced services to companies in areas of staffing, technology, facilities...
Moneylife Digital Team
Guidelines    1. The Grader captures the first two of the three intrinsic factors that drive a stock: valuation, returns and growth. Since growth is volatile and difficult to capture through a metric, we have used only the first two factors. In place of growth, we have provided...
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MUTUAL FUNDS
Mutual funds (MFs) saw an unprecedented rise in redemptions from their liquid and bond schemes, as a stock market crash presented an opportunity to buy equities for cheap. Also, minor losses in liquid schemes, due to fall in bond prices, spooked many investors, including corporate treasury...
Clinton Fernandes
INSURANCE
The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and panic among citizens is a heaven-sent opportunity for insurance companies, because insurance sells on real and perceived fear. Last week, we wrote, how State-run Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) wanted to use COVID-19 as 'business opportunity' to sell more...
MOBILE APPS
HEALTH
Intermittent fasting has been rapidly gaining traction for its ability to help people lose weight and achieve a healthier lifestyle. Now, a new study shows that it can also promote good liver health.   Researchers at the University of Sydney have found that diet can positively impact...
Akshay Naik
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