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Swapnil Suvarna 13 January 2010
Bourses poised to remain in positive territory during Thursday’s trade Indian markets remained highly volatile throughout the day, as they opened lower from yesterday’s close on weak global cues, followed by China’s move to curb lending. However, at the end of the day, bourses shrugged off...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 January 2010
Lack of clear regulation led to an absurd tussle between SEBI and Reliance Mutual Fund over the duration of the statutory warning in the Fund’s ad. Lack of clear-cut regulation from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on how to calculate the duration of the statutory warning (on...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 January 2010
Mutual fund volumes on NSE and BSE are yet to catch up, as only 792 combined orders worth Rs10 crore were recorded between 8 December 2009 and 12 January 2010 Online trading volumes of mutual funds (MFs) continue to remain bleak if the numbers are anything to go by. According to the data...

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Seven rules to ensure that your broker doesn’t give you a raw deal In the past fortnight, I received emails from four desperate individuals. Each of their stories had a common theme: that money had simply vanished from their brokerage accounts and they were left with hefty liabilities....

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R Balakrishnan on saving  and   investing prudently 13 January 2010
Over the next decade, the state of our infrastructure and our political system may ensure that life does not get any better “By 2020, the people of India will be more numerous, better educated, healthier and more prosperous than at any time in our long history.” This ‘forecast’ is from a...

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Sanket Dhanorkar  and   Ravi Samalad 12 January 2010
SGX Nifty Futures volumes have been falling even before the NSE extended its trading hours. So the latest move by the Singapore exchange to extend its trading session may not impact NSE Nifty volumes at all. Following the National Stock Exchange's (NSE) extension of trading hours, the...

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Moneylife Research Desk 12 January 2010
A new Moneylife study has identified consumer durables as the cheapest among 49 sectors A new Moneylife study of 49 sectors covering 1,252 stocks has identified consumer durables, cement, paper & paper products, plastics and packaging as the top five sectors that are attractively valued,...

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Moneylife Research Desk 12 January 2010
A new Moneylife study has identified consumer durables as the cheapest among 49 sectors A new Moneylife study of 49 sectors covering 1,252 stocks has identified consumer durables, cement, paper & paper products, plastics and packaging as the top five sectors that are attractively valued,...

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Pallabika Ganguly 12 January 2010
Bollywood production house Yash Raj Films, travel operator SOTC and Brandinvest will promote Swiss destinations through special film tourism packages Innovation is the name of the game for both television and cinema marketing. Taking the trend forward, Hindi film producer Yash Raj Films (YRF)...

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Swapnil Suvarna 12 January 2010
Indian markets may continue to slump due to fears over possible monetary policy tightening by the central bank Indian markets opened up higher on reports of better-than-expected December 2009 quarter results by Infosys Technologies, announced before trading started. At 12.00 hrs IST, the...

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Swapnil Suvarna 12 January 2010
A few funds held large cash levels in November. Was it a prudent move? One of the tenets of fund investing is to remain fully invested at all times. Since it would go against the ‘remain fully invested’ philosophy, funds have not developed the expertise to time the market. Of course, this...

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Surya Pharma is on a growth path We have been impressed by small pharma companies like Aarti Drugs and Ankur Drugs and their performance has justified our recommendation. Here is one more pharma stock to look at. Surya Pharmaceutical manufactures and markets active pharmaceutical ingredients...

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Greaves Cotton makes dull engineering stuff but these are in great demand now The high economic growth rate in India has ensured that a large number of very mundane sectors are doing extremely well. Capital goods, mainly light engineering, is one such sector. An unfancied player in this...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 January 2010
Times Guaranty Ltd (Rs79) Promoted by Bennett Coleman & Co, owner of the Times group, Times Guaranty is a defunct finance company. In the March 2008 quarter, it posted revenues of Rs2 lakh and an operating loss of Rs28 lakh. Surprisingly, in the September 2008 quarter, when the economy...

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Swapnil Suvarna 11 January 2010
Indian markets failed to hold on to positive global cues, following a slump in Reliance Industries Indian markets opened on a stronger note on the back of strong trade data from China for December 2009 and expectations of strong December 2009 quarter results from India Inc. However, markets...

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Moneylife Research Team 11 January 2010
In the last 19 years, out of 13 times when the Sensex closed higher in the first week, on nine occasions it also ended the month in positive territory How will January 2010 end for the markets? That seems to partly depend on how the first week ended. A study conducted by Moneylife has found...

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Ravi Samalad 11 January 2010
A section of the fund industry is still attempting to delay the SEBI directive on trail commission. Others are readying to comply The larger mutual funds that effectively control the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) and have been instrumental in endlessly postponing the decision on...

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Swapnil Suvarna 11 January 2010
Both the BSE and the NSE have extended their trading session by about one hour; however, the move has not increased volumes. The trading volumes of Nifty futures are shrinking irrespective of extended trade timings for the Indian bourses. From 4 January 2010, the market has been opening at 9...

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Sanket Dhanorkar 11 January 2010
The mandatory 70% provisioning coverage expected to be implemented by banks has created quite a stir in the banking community The major bone of contention emerging among Indian banks is the provisioning requirement mandated by the country’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its...

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Swapnil Suvarna 09 January 2010
Indian markets remained subdued; institutional investors are waiting to buy on declines The week started off positively on the back of strong manufacturing activity in December 2009, and exports in November 2009. Indian markets remained weak on the last two trading days following weak global...

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