The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Principal PNB joins Bajaj Allianz for advisory services
PRINCIPAL PNB Asset Management (in association with Vijaya Bank) is partnering Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company to provide investment advisory services. Under this partnership, Principal PNB AMC would advise Bajaj Allianz on investments in ... More

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

Volatile movement
BEARS were in charge of the initial hours of Monday's trading activity. The day's market action resulted in increasing the bear count by a considerable margin. The sentiment reading of the tradable counters stands bearish. Bull pressure on ... More

STOCK MARKETS

Late-hour buying in heavyweights helps in recovery
THE benchmark indices threatened to end yet another day in the negative territory, but buying in index heavyweights towards the end of the trading session saved the day, helping the indices to close on Monday at higher levels. The BSE Sensex ... More

Sensex gains 20 pts on a day of sudden swings
THE bourses witnessed an extremely choppy trading session today and though the benchmark indices closed in the green, it was after a day of sudden swings. The markets opened marginally strong but slipped into the red soon after. Buying frenzy ... More

Sesa Goa flares up on iron ore price renegotiations
SHARES of Sesa Goa, a leading iron ore exporter, jumped by over 8 per cent on Monday following the renegotiation of iron ore export price for 2005, brokers said. According to them, the renegotiation price of iron ore has increased from less ... More

FII, MF pie in Hexaware up, public stake down
THE combined shareholding of mutual funds and UTI has more than doubled in Hexaware Technologies Ltd to 5.10 per cent for the quarter ended December 2004 as against 2.30 per cent the previous quarter. On the contrary, public shareholding in the ... More

ACC & Guj Amb Cement: Stake sale talk drives them
WHEN most of the cement companies' shares remain flat or closed lower on Monday, ACC and Gujarat Ambuja Cement stock prices gained. Dealers said this was mainly on market talk of a foreign cement major likely to take stake in ACC. Another talk ... More

TCS included in Nifty index
NSE has included Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in its S&P CNX Nifty index. TCS replaces another Tata group company Indian Hotels. The exchange has also included TCS in CNX IT index by replacing Visualsoft Technologies. These changes come ... More

DERIVATIVES MARKETS

Outlook may turn positive for BHEL, Hero Honda
THE following strategies are based on Monday's trading in the spot and the derivatives segment on the NSE: BHEL: The stock closed at Rs 711 in the spot market. The outlook may turn positive if the stock trades above Rs 728. In the event, ... More

IPOS

Govt examining PFC's initial public offer proposal
THE Government is examining a proposal submitted by state-owned Power Finance Corporation (PFC) for an initial public offer (IPO), the Power Secretary, Mr R.V. Shahi, said on Monday. He, however, said there was no immediate plan to dilute ... More

Shringar Cinemas to enter capital market
SHRINGAR Cinemas Ltd, a film exhibition and distribution company, is entering the capital market with a public issue of 81.5 lakh shares of Rs 10 each through a book building route. Of this issue, 2.5 lakh shares are reserved for employees and ... More

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