Stocks that are equipped to face the future

The long-term investor can be compared to mango-growers. Like them, he too understands the need to pick the right seed and has enough patience to wait for the seedling to blossom into a full-grown tree. He knows that it will be a while before his investment gives returns. However, the long-term investor differs from the mango farmers in a key aspec

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Gokul Refoils & Solvent Ltd IPO

Public issue of 71,58,392 equity shares of Rs. 10 each of Gokul Refoils and Solvent Limited (Gokul or our company or the issuer) for cash at a price of Rs.[*] per equity share [including a share premium of Rs. [*] per equity share] aggregating to Rs.[*] Crores (the issue). The issue comprises a reservation of upto 75,000 equity shares

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Mkts to see deep, long correction: Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

The question bothering the markets still remains - is there more pain left and what is the road ahead? To find out answers to these questions, CNBC-TV18’s Stocks Editor, Udayan Mukherjee caught up with ace investor and market expert Rakesh Jhunjhunwala in a special series called ‘Hunt for the Bottom’.

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CRR hiked 50 bps, Markets to Be Volatile

The inevitable happened on Thursday evening. In its customary style, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) hiked the cash reserve ratio (CRR) for banks to suck out money from the system—a move that follows duty cuts and export bans in the war against inflation. What surprised many was the timing of the measure since the market was expecting it on April 2

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Important Rules of Technical Trading

Map the TrendsStudy long-term charts. Begin a chart analysis with monthly and weekly charts spanning several years. A larger scale "map of the market" provides more visibility and a better long-term perspective on a market.

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Before You Make a Trade- Trading Check List

A "Trading Checklist" of prioritized criteria not only will help you decide when to execute a trade, but will also help you identify potential winning trades. What kind of stuff should a trader put on a Trading Checklist? That depends on the individual trader.

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Volume and Open Interest: How to Use it to Trade More Effect

Futures volume and open interest are significant factors to monitor when trading futures, for several reasons. First, let's define the two terms. Open interest is the total number of futures or options

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Aishwarya Telecom Ltd IPO

Initial public issue of 40,00,000 equity shares of Rs. 10 each for cash at a price of Rs. [*] per equity share (including share premium of Rs. [*] per equity share) aggregating Rs. [*] Crores (hereinafter referred to as the issue). The issue comprises a reservation for eligible employees of upto 1,00,000 equity shares of Rs. 10 each (the em

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Coping With Risk and Uncertainty

How do you cope with the risk and uncertainty that are built into markets, and are you coping effectively? In this and my next article, I will be tackling these important questions.The topic of coping actually begins with the notion of stress. Stress is a characteristic set of physiological, cognitive, and emotional responses to threat.

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Sensex is predicted to reach 24 K by March '09

This philosophy is embraced by even the modern day prophets of randomness, Burton Malkiel and Naseem Nicholas Taleb. Mr Malkiel popularised the concept of randomness in the movement of Stock prices in the ’70s. Mr Taleb, now famous for his ‘Black Swan’ theory, concluded that risk models used by brokerages are all useless as they cannot predict the

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Eight mistakes to avoid while investing

Overconfidence - Don't be unrealistically optimistic A bull market makes retail investors believe that they are geniuses - after all, anything they put money into goes up. This overconfidence in their own abilities leads to a complete disregard of the risks involved. Every new generation that invests in the market ignores past experience.

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How to pick dividend stocks in a troubled market

Even if stocks go nowhere this year—a distinct possibility as US recession looms—investors can get returns by hunting for companies that pay healthy dividends. You receive the company’s quarterly payouts even if its stock, and the entire market, heads south.

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Stocks bought by mutual funds during market crash.

Stocks bought by mutual funds during market crash.What are mutual funds buying during Stock market crash?Mutual funds have bought

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Advance taxes point to healthy quarterly results

If the advance tax numbers for the fourth quarter of the current fiscal year are anything to go by, India Inc. should report strong set of financial results for the January-March period. The companies will start declaring

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Investors may soon get to access SEs' trading system

Investors in Indian markets can soon have direct access to the exchange’s trading system, albeit through the broker’s infrastructure, a practice very popular in developed markets. Capital market regulator SEBI issued a circular saying only institutional investors would be allowed to access this facility in the first stage - called

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D-Street may witness volatility on Q4 results, global cues

Investors on Dalal Street are likely to continue witnessing volatility this week, driven by quarterly earnings by corporates and global cues, as analysts believe impact of soaring inflation may have been discounted. The benchmark index Sensex closed at 15,343.12 on Friday with a loss of 489.43 points, as concerns of rising inflation and a new

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