MARKETS
INSIGHT
US equities outlook is weakly positive
The outlook for American stocks is neither exciting nor gloomy, as the prices reflect lower earnings multiples. As oil prices climb, some profit-taking can be expected early in the New Year, followed by some stability. But anything more than a mode st rise is unsustainable. If operating earnings continue to drift further away from reported and economic figures, then one should be prepared to trust American stocks far less, says V. Anantha Nageswaran.
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MUTUAL FUNDS
Damodaran quits UTI
MR M. Damodaran has stepped down as the Chairman and Managing Director of UTI Mutual Fund and Administrator of UTI-I, the specified undertaking of UTI. Mr Damodaran, who is also the Chairman of IDBI, said he tendered his resignation on Sunday ...
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Principal MF to launch Focussed Themes Fund
PRINCIPAL Mutual Fund has lined up an equity scheme that will invest in stocks representing not more than six sectors at a time. The proposed Principal Focussed Themes Fund will seek to achieve capital appreciation by allocating to a maximum ...
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Sundaram Select vs Nifty
SUNDARAM Mutual Fund's Select Focus Fund has provided an annual return of 49 per cent (as on November 30,) compared with the 36 per cent scored by the benchmark index, the Nifty. The scheme, according to the latest fact sheet, is invested in ...
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Distributors - only sensitive to incentives?
Yeh sab rakho... thoda paisa badao". Those ordinary Hindi words would not mean much if you consider them in isolation. Put them in the context of mutual funds, and their meaning turns quite sinister. In reality, these were spoken by a ...
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STOCKS
Textile cos make big strides to see new dawn
WITH the global textile quotas on their last leg, domestic textile stocks have emerged as the darling of the bourses, while manufacturers and exporters of textile products are cranking up expansion plansand the level of credit drawn from the ...
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STOCK MARKETS
CHAT
`Never think of the future, it comes soon enough'
FM has asked the state governments to reduce fuel tax, but will they, wondered Jogin even as he revved up his PC to chat about markets with Khan, Sridevi and Dakshinamoorthy. Join the buzz! Jog: Let me not say anything about ...
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Throttle continues to be in FIIs' hands
WHAT a year it was! For Dalal Street, it has been a year of records. Not only the key indices scaled new heights, but the foreign fund inflow has been unprecedented. The economy has seen lowest interest regime in decades and marked improvement in ...
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INTERVIEW
`Interest rates are expected to remain volatile'
THE booming stock market has not tempted Standard Chartered MF, which manages only debt schemes, to dabble in equity products. Mr Naval Bir Kumar, MD, sticks to his only-debt moorings. He also urges longer-term investors to consider ...
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