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Ravi Samalad 24 February 2010
Retail investors and employees have given a ‘thumbs down’ to both the IPOs; DB Realty listed at an 8% discount while Emmbi Polyarns shed 59% on its debut The Emmbi Polyarns Ltd and DB Realty Ltd (DBRL) IPOs (initial public offers), which listed on the NSE and BSE today, received a poor...

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Swapnil Suvarna 24 February 2010
Indian investors continued to stay cautious ahead of the Union Budget as share prices slumped towards the end of the day Indian markets moved sideways throughout the day as railway minister Mamata Banerjee announced a populist railway Budget for 2010-2011. However, the market slumped towards...

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The Korean carmaker is halting sales of its top-selling vehicle in the US and South Korea owing to concerns about sticking door locks. However, this will not affect Hyundai’s India sales, say analysts. First, it was Japan’s Toyota and Honda, then India’s Maruti, and now Korean chaebol Hyundai...

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Amritha Pillay 24 February 2010
The power ministry has estimated coal imports of 48 million tonnes in FY10-11, sharply higher than the expected imports of 28mt in the current fiscal, as domestic supply shrinks due to issues like environmental clearance and Naxalite threats India’s coal imports for power production are...

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Amritha Pillay 24 February 2010
The power ministry has estimated coal imports of 48 million tonnes in FY10-11, sharply higher than the expected imports of 28mt in the current fiscal, as domestic supply shrinks due to issues like environmental clearance and Naxalite threats India’s coal imports for power production are...

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Moneylife Research Desk 24 February 2010
Our new, improved methodology ranks 18 fund houses based on their five-year performance and suggests how to use the scoring The commonest approach to ranking funds is to choose from the recent top performers. However, as Moneylife has proved several times, many funds do well for a brief...

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Swapnil Suvarna 24 February 2010
As the cash levels of funds in December 2009 bear out, more than 90% of fund managers failed to take a timely call on the market sentiment to protect investor returns Since mid-November 2009, the market has struggled to continue the rally that started in March of that year. From the low of...

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Religare Asset Management has recently launched its gold exchange-traded fund (ETF) called Religare Gold ETF. Gold ETF is a paper asset designed to track the gold price. You can get rid of the problem of holding physical gold. But is gold a good asset to buy? Nobody really knows that. It has...

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Swapnil Suvarna 23 February 2010
Indian markets struggled to stay in the green ahead of the Union Budget 2010-2011 and on the back of Maruti’s slump Indian markets remained highly volatile throughout the day as investors remained highly cautious ahead of the Union Budget 2010-2011 and as index heavyweight Maruti Suzuki...

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Ravi Samalad 23 February 2010
Confident that companies are in for a period of calm after the volatility of 2008-09, investors are lapping up risky corporate fixed deposits. Are they underplaying the default risks? Corporate fixed deposits (FDs) offer higher interest rate compared to bank deposits. Within that, many FDs...

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Ravi Samalad 23 February 2010
Confident that companies are in for a period of calm after the volatility of 2008-09, investors are lapping up risky corporate fixed deposits. Are they underplaying the default risks? Corporate fixed deposits (FDs) offer higher interest rate compared to bank deposits. Within that, many FDs...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 February 2010
Raising concerns over discrimination in tax on cement compared to other building materials, the industry calls for a reduction in VAT in the upcoming Budget. The cement industry on Tuesday said that the government should bring the value-added tax (VAT) on cement at par with other building...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 February 2010
Logistics provider plans a Rs50-crore acquisition of a company in the Far East and will expand its footprint in the Middle East Logistic solutions provider Aqua Logistics plans to acquire a company in the Far East, which will facilitate Indo-China trade, in the next two months, a top company...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 February 2010
Following on the heels of troubled automakers Toyota and Honda, Maruti recalls one lakh units of its hatchback ‘A-Star’ to replace faulty fuel pump parts. The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India is recalling about one lakh units of its flagship export model 'A-Star' to replace a...

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Swapnil Suvarna  and   Pratibha Kamath 23 February 2010
Out of the 49 sectors, sugar, the hot sector of late 2009, was the worst performer, crashing 22% whereas printing & publishing was down 21% Between 6 January 2010 and 19 February 2010, Indian markets have been highly volatile for a variety of reasons. There were fears of Indian government...

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Swapnil Suvarna  and   Pratibha Kamath 23 February 2010
Out of the 49 sectors, sugar, the hot sector of late 2009, was the worst performer, crashing 22% whereas printing & publishing was down 21% Between 6 January 2010 and 19 February 2010, Indian markets have been highly volatile for a variety of reasons. There were fears of Indian government...

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Four small-cap stocks that proved their growth credentials in the December quarter The December-quarter results season is here. Around 400 of the Moneylife sample of companies have already declared their results. From the first cut of December, we have identified several stocks that seem to...

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Excel Crop Care has a varied product mix and a sizeable presence in the global agrochemicals market Agrochemicals companies have derived substantial gains from the spill-over effects of poor monsoons. One beneficiary of the erratic rains last year was Sabero Organics, a company we recommended...

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GAIL is an excellent long-term pick at Rs350 GAIL (India) is the largest natural gas transportation company in India with 6,700km of high-pressure pipeline and a capacity of carrying 148 million standard cubic metres a day (mmscmd) of natural gas. It has plans to expand the gas transmission...

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Ivory tower regulations have killed investor interest. Time for some intervention by the finance ministry Over the past couple of months, many fund managers have been talking to us about the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (SEBI’s) investor education plans. It wants mutual funds...

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