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Bitter Pill: Is Sugar Industry headed for a Down cycle?

by Viral Dholakia on March 15, 2010

Just as the world was witnessing a gradual recovery, over the last year, from the worst crises after the Great Depression, the asset class which clearly stood out and could be easily termed as a star performer for the FY 2009-10 is Sugar as a commodity. Sugar – As the best [...]

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Finance Friday: The Fate of Low Floating-stock Counters – Valuation Crunch in NMDC FPO

by Viral Dholakia

The Follow-on public offer (FPO) of the largest iron ore producer in the country National Minerals Development Corporation (NMDC) is currently open for subscription with a price band of Rs. 300-350 wherein the government plans to divest 8.38% stake in the market. The last date for subscription is today. Markets Way [...]

5 comments March 12, 2010 Continue Reading →

Indian Stock Markets Going Global, How Good Is It ?

by Ankit Agarwal

Ever since Mr.Bhave took the charge of SEBI, the Indian Capital Markets have had a metamorphosis of sorts be it via new regulations, ramped up security, new avenues to trade and various other initiatives.Most of these changes have had primarily two objectives,

To bring in more transparency in the markets and bring down the manipulators
To increase [...]

2 comments March 11, 2010 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday : Cheques To Get More Secure , Stock Market & The Union Budget

by Ankit Agarwal

RBI To Introduce More Security Features in Cheques
In a bid to reduce cheque frauds and standardize the cheques across the banking sector, RBI has introduced a slew of new features for making the Cheques more secure.RBI has asked the banks to add more security features in the cheques they use.
The key security features include use [...]

0 comments February 26, 2010 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday: Eleven New Inclusions to NSE’s F&O Club From Today – Boost to Exchange Volumes?

by Viral Dholakia

Today, February 19, there will be additional 11 counters to bet on for the group of punters and hedgers alike though futures and options trading, on the National Stock Exchange (NSE). The list of the new elite stocks which are introduced after a gap of almost one and half year is as follows:

Adani Enterprises Ltd
Apollo [...]

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French Auction: Government Fails To Learn Lessons From NTPC FPO !

by Viral Dholakia

Failure is the stepping stone to success – Probably, the theory does not work so well for the Indian Government. They have yet again decided to move forward with Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) Follow-on Public Offering (FPO) through the much debated French Auction methodology which proved to be a big failure in the case of [...]

7 comments February 18, 2010 Continue Reading →

Bharti Airtel’s Wild Acquisition Plans Seem To Be Backfiring

by Ankit Agarwal

May be it’s only me, but looks like Bharti Airtel is hell bent on chasing Fool’s Gold. Bharti has been chasing inorganic growth at a maddening pace primarily to expand globally. One of the top most telecom operators in India, Airtel enjoys a huge subscriber base in India and wants to penetrate the international markets [...]

16 comments February 15, 2010 Continue Reading →

Regulatory Approvals Continue To Haunt Ranbaxy

by Ankit Agarwal

Indian healthcare companies have been seeing a lot of traction both in terms of international reach and increasing revenues.Indian companies have been making good revenues through the sale of generics across the globe and most of the biotech firms have been increasing their R&D investment.

We recently had an article on the Indian Health Care sector [...]

3 comments February 6, 2010 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday: India Growth, Stock Markets, SEBI Regulations & more..

by Ankit Agarwal

India Growth Story Is Still On Track, says IMF
Even with a back breaking food inflation and policy tightening from the government, the India long term growth story is still very much on the right track.The International Monetary Fund (IMF). Betting on the strong fundamentals of the Indian economy, the IMF expects Indian economy to grow [...]

3 comments February 5, 2010 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday : Is HealthCare Sector Set To Make a Stock Market Impact This Year

by Ankit Agarwal

Its a new year and a economically promising one at that.However, the stock markets have been playing a see-saw ride for sometime now with no major fluctuations.Sectoral Investing has lost its flavour for sometime now but analysing a particular sector still helps one shortlist the stocks to invest in.Recently, we had covered a discussion on [...]

8 comments January 22, 2010 Continue Reading →

SEBI gears up to introduce Equity Trading Through Mobile Phones Soon

by Ankit Agarwal

SEBI is doing its best to be in sync with the dynamically changing marketplace.Off late, SEBI has introduced quite a few reforms in a bid to increase the volumes in the Indian Stock Market and make it easy for investors to trade.From increasing the trading hours to introducing trading of Mutual Fund’s through brokers, all [...]

2 comments January 21, 2010 Continue Reading →

Is the Indian IT Sector set for a Stock Market rebound ?

by Ankit Agarwal

The Indian IT sector , the darling of trade pundits is seeing some kind of resurgence since the start of the year.After a tumultuous last year which saw the Indian Stock Market losing nearly 50-60% of its value, IT stocks fared ever so badly.

It was however evident since most of the revenue that the Indian [...]

6 comments January 17, 2010 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday : Infosys Results , Industrial Index, Rising Inflation

by Ankit Agarwal

Infosys Quarter Results Beat Industry Estimates , raises Revenue Guidance
The year has started on a promising note as far as financial numbers are considered.Infosys, the IT bellwether beat delivered better then expected third quarter results which bought a short term cheer to the Indian Stock Markets.
Infosys reported a 2.7% rise in consolidated net profit for [...]

15 comments January 15, 2010 Continue Reading →

Technology spells doom to day traders in Stock Market

by Arun Prabhudesai

Like I mentioned in my earlier post, I will be getting quite active in stock Market (that’s one of my resolutions) in 2010. You may see increase in the posts on stock Market in coming days. While researching a few things on the net, I hit upon this very interesting news. There are lot [...]

10 comments January 13, 2010 Continue Reading →

Question: Whats the future of Stock Market in Twenty Ten ?

by Arun Prabhudesai

If you are expecting an answer to the question above, sorry to disappoint you. I don’t have any answer personally. One of the resolutions that I have made this year is – I will be more active in Indian Stock Market – And hence this question to readers. You can say I am crowd [...]

24 comments January 12, 2010 Continue Reading →