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<?xml-stylesheet href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589</id><updated>2008-08-20T04:35:07.212-07:00</updated><title type="text">Beyond Basics</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25" /><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>118</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><link rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/BeyondBasics" type="application/atom+xml" /><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-4690512033326871336</id><published>2008-08-15T00:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-15T11:42:31.448-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Growth" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="India" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Stock Ideas" /><title type="text">Future Growth Areas - Indian Stocks</title><content type="html">Short term Outlook for India is bad  as for as annual returns are concerned. Inflation is sky high , growth is slowing down , interest has started inching upwards giving pinch to consumers in every price band.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Currently inflation is 6-7% higher than last year and 2-3 times higher than cushion level of R.B.I.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though the cyclic up-downs will continue to happen,  promising themes will keep emerging which will provide huge growth and fuel Indian Economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following themes can emerge as winners.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Aviation/Defence -&lt;br /&gt;Indian Military yesterdat got its first Hawk (AJT) built by HAL . Technology transfers and localization promises a lot for Indian Manufacture. This will help us developing Defence Aviation industry. Component Manufactures will gain immensely. New bidding process require that the supplier honour a 50% offset clause, or source 50% of the components required to complete the order, by value, from domestic manufacturers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indian companies have to build capacity to absorb such huge offset work which would be coming to them.&lt;br /&gt;Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&amp;amp;T) which is India's largest Capital Goods and Infrastructure firm plans to bid for the order to the company winning the MMRCA(medium multi-role combat aircraft) contract of about 10 billion dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The MMRCA deal involves buying 18 aircraft from the seller and manufacturing 108 under licence by 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Energy and Power&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;India has a huge power deficit and demand for power is going to grow substantially. Many power projects are going to come up to scale up the supply. UMPP has been introduced through Electricity Act 2003.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gas and Oil Finds in East Coast would provide much relief to energy hungry country benefiting fertilizer,power and other industries. It will also help reduce forex outflow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Infrastructure&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This theme is being played for last 2-3 years and will continue for some more years. If India has to grow it has to build huge infrastructure in every field - roads, ports, airports, power, oil/gas, housing, malls etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Nuclear Power&lt;br /&gt;Power generation, equipment and capital goods manufacturers  are very optimistic of Indo nuclear civilian deal.&lt;br /&gt;They are hoping that components for the new nuclear deal will be manufacture locally and initially by serving foreign nuclear manufacturer, they will become supplier and become part of the supply chain eventually.</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/08/future-growth-areas-indian-stocks.html" title="Future Growth Areas - Indian Stocks" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=4690512033326871336" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/4690512033326871336/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/4690512033326871336" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/4690512033326871336" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-2648314609237572183</id><published>2008-05-31T10:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-31T10:16:56.941-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Gyan" /><title type="text">Oil Marketing Companies</title><content type="html">Price Hike!! Price Hike!! Price Hike!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No decision yet taken by the government readying itself for upcoming elections. These companies have already taken huge losses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have seen strength in these companies last 1-2 weeks in hope of price hike.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder how much these companies can gain given the fact that hike will only reduce their losses but not make them profitable. Gods knowns what will happen to already incurred loss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oils bonds are helping them partially but thats a sad story for common man because these bonds are just postponing the disaster.</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/05/oil-marketing-companies.html" title="Oil Marketing Companies" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=2648314609237572183" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/2648314609237572183/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/2648314609237572183" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/2648314609237572183" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-2062157368253007854</id><published>2008-05-31T10:10:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-31T10:13:31.448-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Banks" /><title type="text">Banking Space</title><content type="html">Banking stocks are coming under hammer for quite a few days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sbi and ICICI are touching new lows everyday. With inflation soaring high and oil price on the anvil its a difficult phase for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With liquidity crunch, high interest rate , low credit offtake coupled with slowing economy banks are facing moderation in their earnings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have to wait and watch , and enter the stock at right time.</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/05/banking-space.html" title="Banking Space" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=2062157368253007854" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/2062157368253007854/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/2062157368253007854" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/2062157368253007854" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-3232134762565458828</id><published>2008-05-31T10:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-31T10:10:12.656-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News" /><title type="text">Larsen &amp; Toubro</title><content type="html">L&amp;amp;T gave the robust fourth quarter results with net up 38%. It has also announced a bonus of 1:1 . This is the second one in 2 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has moved up sharply for last 2 days. Hope it helps in reviving the sentiments in the capital goods space.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apart from the diverse operations, it is now eyeing JV with Indian Railways.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last month it hived off RMC business stating it as non - core and made a cool profit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mark to Market loss is partially recovered and hope to square off soon.</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/05/larsen-toubro.html" title="Larsen &amp; Toubro" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=3232134762565458828" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/3232134762565458828/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/3232134762565458828" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/3232134762565458828" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-113333517398616248</id><published>2008-03-01T09:49:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-01T09:50:24.858-08:00</updated><title type="text">After long time</title><content type="html">Sorry for not posting anything for a very long time. Truly I was really busy with my office work.&lt;br /&gt;Hope to get sometime to devote here :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Budget is out and congrats everyone who has benefited from the tax exemptions. People in IT industry gearing up for lower salary hikes can get a little cushion from this exemption.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Short Term Capital gains tax has increased from 10 to 15%. Hope this helps in people investing for a longer time to avoid this tax.&lt;br /&gt;But I doubt this will happen because of human tendency of earning faster without patience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In current scenario that might happen because people are just holding on to recover their losses and not sell stocks at loss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of you would have done your tax savings for this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Markets are volatile for past 1 month and half. Instead of avoiding the stock market completely people should continue investing in smaller amount and build a good portfolio for 2-3 years time frame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lot of stocks are available at attractive valuations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you homework and be on track of your financial planning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Investing :-)</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/03/after-long-time.html" title="After long time" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=113333517398616248" title="4 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/113333517398616248/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/113333517398616248" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/113333517398616248" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-4621348257350975012</id><published>2008-02-10T06:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-10T06:37:52.171-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sectorial Overview" /><title type="text">Cement and Steel Sector</title><content type="html">Cement and Steel Sector&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both these sectors can outperform index in 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Companies having backward integration with raw materials in Steel industry are set to benefit .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Steel prices are rising and will rise more in 2008. Raw material prices are also on the rise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biggest consumer China has also seen production cost go up significantly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indian Steel demand is robust and focus on infrastructure will keep it that way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gujrat NRE coke,sesa goa, Tata steel looks good in this sector.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cement sector is going in for huge expansion to cope up with the demand, but the new capacities will start coming in from first quarter of FY09. Demand and price realization will remain firm in these scenarios. Some government has tried to curb the price rise in cement saying they will import cheap cement from outside. But cement prices are high across asia and so poses no immediate threat to local cement makers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Till the monsoon kicks in around june-july. These 2 quarters can see huge construction activity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;India Cements, Grasim Industries , Shree Cements looks good if one want to enter this sector.</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/02/cement-and-steel-sector.html" title="Cement and Steel Sector" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=4621348257350975012" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/4621348257350975012/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/4621348257350975012" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/4621348257350975012" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-343763337226505537</id><published>2008-02-06T03:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-06T03:26:51.841-08:00</updated><title type="text">Value Buying in GE Shipping</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;Through mail from Abhay.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;CMP                437 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;P/E                5.17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;Market cap         6654.37&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;MarketCap/Sales    2.20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;Financials for last 12 months( Jan 07 to Dec 07)   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;Net Sales     3012.13(2186.31)  Up by 37.74%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;Net profit     1298.31(825.91)  Up by 57.19%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;EPS               84.86(54.24)  Up by 56.45%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;Other players in this segment with their net sales for FY07 (i didn't calculate last 12 months sales for all) &amp;amp; their P/E&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;Company            NetSales       NetProfit      MarketCap   current P/E&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;ABG Shipyard        704.36          116.29        3717.29     25.06&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;Essar shipping     1024.30        134.04       10,227.98    60.45&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;GE Shipping        1990.6        883.31      6646      5.12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;Shipping corp     3703.44          1014.58       6405.44     7.54&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;Among these companies only ABG shipyard is growing at faster rate but on smaller base &amp;amp; has P/E of 25.06 almost 5 times that of GE. Shipping corp also looks cheap but growth has been slow compared to its peers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;MarketCap/Sales ratio of 2.2 &amp;amp; P/E of 5.12 with potential growth of 50% plus makes it very cheap.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: lucida grande;"&gt;Also after the fall in stock price in January it has shown momentum back from 330 levels.&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/02/value-buying-in-ge-shipping.html" title="Value Buying in GE Shipping" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=343763337226505537" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/343763337226505537/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/343763337226505537" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/343763337226505537" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-7407218673431725578</id><published>2008-02-04T12:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-04T12:13:22.159-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News" /><title type="text">Stock News</title><content type="html">Jindal Saw bags Cairn Energy order worth $200m  for pipes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jindal Saw&lt;/span&gt; gets Rs 200 crore power project contract&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After saw pipes Jindal saw betting on infrastructure for growth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Punj Lloyd&lt;/span&gt; tripped for past few days after heavy unwinding of position by a big broker.Stock to rise soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;GMR Infra &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;GMR&lt;/b&gt; Group’s &lt;b&gt;Vemagiri&lt;/b&gt; power plant will become operational this month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hyderabad Airport to be operational by March 08: GMR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stock will retest it previous highs in 2-3 months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Chattisgarh &lt;/span&gt;to become powe hub of the country. With 40 power plants planned &lt;span&gt;with investment commitment worth Rs 1,58,000 crore. This will help add 39,500 mw in next 8 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/02/stock-news.html" title="Stock News" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=7407218673431725578" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/7407218673431725578/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/7407218673431725578" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/7407218673431725578" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-8474131540343722363</id><published>2008-02-01T11:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-05T21:41:43.835-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Gyan" /><title type="text">Lessons learned</title><content type="html">Current market turmoil as given lot of lesson to the investors new to the market.&lt;br /&gt;People who were used to get returns just by investing blindly in the market past year have burnt their fingers recently.&lt;br /&gt;Now people should stick to stocks which are fundamentally strong and should stay away from momentum stocks.&lt;br /&gt;Fundamentally strong company can loose a little value in this kind of blood bath but they still retain their inherent value and will have premium in good markets.&lt;br /&gt;We now have huge interest rate differential with US which is around 4.75%. We have to see its impact on capital inflow, dollar depreciation , industries affected, inflation because of inflows and RBI moves because of all these events.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Status quo by RBI recently has not been favorably received by most of the industry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indian stock market is at attractive levels now and should do well in coming years based on the growth estimates. Investors have to settle for lesser returns from past years but still it will be better than the traditional saving instruments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most important lesson which I have learnt is we always need to keep certain amount of cash aside. When market falls money not invested retains it value and gives you huge leverage when you can buy stocks when they are available at throw away prices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are always 100% invested with all the money you have then when market falls you don't have dough/capital to use the opportunity knocking your door.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It can make huge difference if you buy in the depressed market condition.Though everyone is panicking  , if you can hold your sentiments and invest wisely you can gain immensely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Keep at least 15% of liquid cash to cash in on the market opportunities.&lt;br /&gt;2. Buy and increase your holding in value stocks.&lt;br /&gt;3. Always book profit in momentum stocks when market peaks and show sign of weakness.&lt;br /&gt;4. Don't play on margins when market is in turmoil.&lt;br /&gt;5. Don't over leverage.&lt;br /&gt;6. Play only on cash. Don't risk more than you can afford.&lt;br /&gt;7. Buy tax saving instruments when markets are on high and you don't have any alternative. Don't wait for January or February.&lt;br /&gt;8. Buy equity when markets are at there lows.&lt;br /&gt;9. Don't gamble play informed.&lt;br /&gt;10. Don't panic and never loose. Don't convert winning stock into a loosing one.</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/02/lessons-learned.html" title="Lessons learned" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=8474131540343722363" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/8474131540343722363/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/8474131540343722363" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/8474131540343722363" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-296337602250674787</id><published>2008-01-28T11:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-28T11:19:03.132-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mutual Funds" /><title type="text">Bottom fishing in MFs</title><content type="html">In the recent market turmoil MFs have not been spared. In absence of FIIs buying, MFs and local institution has tried their bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Funds who were top performer for past few years have taken quite a beating. Most of them are some where close to 15-20%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the list of few funds for your shopping list. If you missed the train earlier here is the chance to catch it from long term perspective.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;table str="" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 229pt;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="305"&gt;&lt;col style="width: 85pt;" width="113"&gt;  &lt;col style="width: 48pt;" span="3" width="64"&gt;  &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td class="xl22" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 85pt; font-weight: bold;" height="17" width="113"&gt;MF   NAVs       &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="xl22" style="width: 48pt; font-weight: bold;" width="64"&gt;        52-wk&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="xl22" style="width: 48pt; font-weight: bold;" width="64"&gt;Current&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="xl22" style="width: 48pt; font-weight: bold;" width="64"&gt;% Change&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td class="xl23" style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;Rel NRI   Eq    &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;40.1&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;33.8&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="-15.710723192019959" fmla="=((C3-B3)/B3)*100" align="right"&gt;-15.7107&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td class="xl23" style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;Kotak   Opp     &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;56.3&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;48.09&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="-14.58259325044404" fmla="=((C5-B5)/B5)*100" align="right"&gt;-14.5826&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td class="xl23" style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;DSP ML Tiger  &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;62.4&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;52.38&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="-16.057692307692299" fmla="=((C7-B7)/B7)*100" align="right"&gt;-16.0577&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td class="xl23" style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;Rel   Growth    &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;491&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;401.79&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="-18.16904276985743" fmla="=((C9-B9)/B9)*100" align="right"&gt;-18.169&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td class="xl23" style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;ING Dom Opp   &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;44.9&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;38.24&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="-14.832962138084627" fmla="=((C11-B11)/B11)*100" align="right"&gt;-14.833&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td class="xl23" style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;UTI   Infra     &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;50.7&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;42.8&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="-15.581854043392514" fmla="=((C13-B13)/B13)*100" align="right"&gt;-15.5819&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td class="xl23" style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;Sundaram Mid  &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;155.4&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;125.38&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="-19.317889317889321" fmla="=((C15-B15)/B15)*100" align="right"&gt;-19.3179&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td class="xl23" style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;Magnum Contra &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;64&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;53.63&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="-16.203125" fmla="=((C17-B17)/B17)*100" align="right"&gt;-16.2031&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td class="xl23" style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;Magnum Global &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;70.4&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;57.52&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="-18.295454545454547" fmla="=((C19-B19)/B19)*100" align="right"&gt;-18.2955&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td class="xl23" style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;JM   Basic      &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;40.8&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;34.08&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="-16.470588235294116" fmla="=((C21-B21)/B21)*100" align="right"&gt;-16.4706&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td class="xl23" style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;JM Emerging   &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;20.7&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;16.93&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="-18.212560386473427" fmla="=((C23-B23)/B23)*100" align="right"&gt;-18.2126&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td class="xl23" style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;Rel   Diver     &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;87.7&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="" align="right"&gt;74.84&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td num="-14.663625997719498" fmla="=((C25-B25)/B25)*100" align="right"&gt;-14.6636&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/bottom-fishing-in-mfs.html" title="Bottom fishing in MFs" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=296337602250674787" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/296337602250674787/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/296337602250674787" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/296337602250674787" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-5667040159914870238</id><published>2008-01-24T02:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-24T03:41:55.444-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Heard on the Street" /><title type="text">Heard on the Street</title><content type="html">&lt;div dir="ltr" align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Fed Rate Cut Happend on Tuesday Night:                                         &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Good For  Market&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div dir="ltr" align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;RBI Rate Cut Expected on Next 10 Days:                                         &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Good For  Market&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Next Fed Rate Cut Expected on  Next 10 Days:               &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Good For Market&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_rHJb38F_bo4/R5h4Xqa__dI/AAAAAAAAFA0/L1uAN3khgaQ/s1600-h/Risk+Management.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 191px;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_rHJb38F_bo4/R5h4Xqa__dI/AAAAAAAAFA0/L1uAN3khgaQ/s400/Risk+Management.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159005721072762322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"  style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;I am BULLISH!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;I am BULLISH!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;I am BULLISH!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;I am BULLISH!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"  style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;I am BULLISH!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"  style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;But Still a word of &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Caution&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  Came from Some Informed Circles still Believe that the Market can  test the 15k level in next 15 days....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div dir="ltr" align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div dir="ltr" align="left"&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;A good option to Hedge your Portfolio to any Risk of a Market Crash&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span class="999385109-24012008"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;is to BUY a Put Option of some Highly volatile stock such as ISPAT, JP Hydro, Nagarjuna Fertilizer, RNRL or ADLABS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/heard-on-street.html" title="Heard on the Street" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=5667040159914870238" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/5667040159914870238/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/5667040159914870238" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/5667040159914870238" /><author><name>Ashish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00363150236772083185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-8832568745860725764</id><published>2008-01-23T10:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-23T21:19:10.650-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News" /><title type="text">BHEL and L&amp;T news snippet</title><content type="html">Just In - BHEL bags order of Rs 2500 cr for Tamil Nadu power plant.&lt;br /&gt;Equipment major Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) on Tuesday said it has bagged a Rs 866-crore order from Reliance Industries for setting up a 345-MW captive power plant in Maharashtra.&lt;br /&gt;This is the first commercial order on BHEL for an ‘advanced-class Frame 9FA’ gas turbine and will open up a new line of business for the company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BHEL is currently quoting at 2148&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L&amp;amp;T has bagged order worth Rs 1,057 crore in Middle East.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;L&amp;amp;T may form a JV with US arms major Lockheed Martin to develop Mark 41 Vertical Launching Systems in India.&lt;br /&gt;L&amp;amp;T gets Bhel-like privileges, may power super-critical drive.Private sector engineering major L&amp;amp;T is being officially promoted as the Bhel-II&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L&amp;amp;T is currently quoting at 3751</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/bhel-and-l-news-snippet.html" title="BHEL and L&amp;T news snippet" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=8832568745860725764" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/8832568745860725764/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/8832568745860725764" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/8832568745860725764" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-8177009497438866094</id><published>2008-01-22T10:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-22T11:06:30.637-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Gyan" /><title type="text">Keep Calm</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;TRANQUILITY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ModoiLkc1-o/R5Y6YxKsapI/AAAAAAAAAPY/rQyAIzhxR7A/s1600-h/sea_med.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ModoiLkc1-o/R5Y6YxKsapI/AAAAAAAAAPY/rQyAIzhxR7A/s320/sea_med.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158374620388944530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This picture is exact opposite of what is happening in financial markets recently. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;Are you still feeling jitters?? I think we should stay calm and do not panic. If you are in market for a long term then what happened currently is mostly notional loss from notional profits. Panic can make you take decisions which you might not otherwise. If you are staring at your losses then don't worry everyone else has lost too....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are not alone and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;misery likes company&lt;/span&gt;.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you were trading on margins or were in derivatives trade. I must say beware and hold your hands for sometime till the market rationalize because as we have the famous saying....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Yes I didn't post anything for past 2 days and that was purposeful. I don't think anyone was interested in hearing any gyan :-) and even I was confused what to write :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The stocks which everyone was recommending when indexes were at 21000( and I am talking about pure fundamental stocks and not the momentum plays...) still remains a good buy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes there will be some moderation in gains but there will be gains. Fundamentally nothing has changed.&lt;br /&gt;India is growing and it will be reflected in the companies which are working to make that happen.&lt;br /&gt;Various central banks are coming out to help the markets. Fed has already cut rate by 75bps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am no one to advice but I think sticking with frontline large caps will be best bet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And as a closing statement I would like to quote Mr Warren Buffet who says&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;"Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;If you think for few minutes you would certain find few gems in the market which falls into that category.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/keep-calm.html" title="Keep Calm" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=8177009497438866094" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/8177009497438866094/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/8177009497438866094" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/8177009497438866094" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-8215629297097456017</id><published>2008-01-20T05:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T05:56:43.916-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mutual Funds" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Gyan" /><title type="text">Mutual Fund Investment Options</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;In the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/mutual-funds-demystified.html"&gt;previous article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; we discussed about the basics of mutual fund and the types of mutual fund available.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Here we will discuss about the investment options available while buying a particular mutual funds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Once you have decided on which fund to buy, you may have the option to choose between the following options&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Growth&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dividend&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dividend Reinvestment.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Sometimes people ignore the importance of choosing right kind of option and choose arbitrarily any one of them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;So now question comes as to which options is best to invest in...Frankly there is no fixed answer. Because choosing the correct option is based on the individual needs and also on the prevailing tax laws in the country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;"&gt;Growth Option -U&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;nder this option no dividend is declared and your investment change according to the change in NAV. You will be taxed on the gain based on when you sell your units. If you sell your units after 1 year no tax is cut. Otherwise you have to pay short term capital gains tax.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;"&gt;Dividend Option- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Under this option fund sometime declare dividend when they have surplus money.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;This dividend is totally tax free whether given after 1 year or within 1 year. So returns on your investment within 1 year also becomes totally tax free. When dividend is provided NAV of the fund falls in equivalent amount.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Since there is regular payout, it can be considered as regular profit booking to reduce impact of market fluctuations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;"&gt;Dividend Reinvestment Option&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; - Tax free dividend declared by the fund is reinvested in the same fund or different fund of same AMC on a particular day set. Timing of the market may not be always favorable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Current Scenario ..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;--&gt;Debt Funds currently attracts Dividend Distribution tax and Equity Funds are exempted currently.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;--&gt;Long term capital gain(Sale after 1 year) is fully exempted for growth schemes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;--&gt;Short term capital gain is taxed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;--&gt; Currently in absence of dividend distribution tax on equity-based funds and no long-term capital gains tax, there is absolutely no difference between the Growth option and the Dividend Reinvestment option&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Impact of Tax Changes ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;--&gt; If dividend distribution tax is reintroduced then growth option would be better than dividend reinvestment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;--&gt; If Long term capital gain tax is introduced then dividend reinvestment would prove better than growth option.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Hope after reading this you will have better understanding of which option to choose according to your needs and prevailing tax laws.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;This article was part II of the previous article posted on mutual fund...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/mutual-funds-demystified.html"&gt;Read previous article here....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;To know more in details about these options read the following 2 articles which explains in detail about these options.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" class="arial11bold_news" href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/mf-experts/growth-or-dividend-how-to-makeright-choice/222447/0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;" &gt;Growth or Dividend - How to make the right choice?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/mf-experts/dividend-reinvestment-vs-growth-%E2%80%93-let-your-taxes-decide/224249/0"&gt;Dividend Reinvestment v/s Growth – Let your taxes decide&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/mutual-fund-investment-options_20.html" title="Mutual Fund Investment Options" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=8215629297097456017" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/8215629297097456017/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/8215629297097456017" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/8215629297097456017" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-7786003191980315234</id><published>2008-01-20T04:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T05:03:43.210-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Popular Articles" /><title type="text">Popular Articles</title><content type="html">Driving through the maze of the blog can be sometime tiring and frustrating. I am trying to put few articles which are popular in last few days so that visitors can get the collection of good post on their finger tip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here I present in the tabular form of the popular post which I would be updating regularly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div align="center"&gt;  &lt;table class="MsoTableGrid" style="border: medium none ; border-collapse: collapse;" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;  &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style=""&gt;   &lt;td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.8in;" width="77"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;1&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td style="border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 221.4pt;" width="295"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/mutual-funds-demystified.html"&gt;Mutual Funds   Demystified&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 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width: 0.8in;" width="77"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;3&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 221.4pt;" width="295"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/infrastructure-funds-and-sector.html"&gt;Infrastructure   Funds and Sector Overview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style=""&gt;   &lt;td style="border-style: none solid solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.8in;" width="77"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;4&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td style="border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; 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In a mutual fund, the fund manager, who is also known as the portfolio manager, trades the fund's underlying securities, realizing capital gains or losses, and collects the dividend or interest income.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The investment proceeds are then passed along to the individual investors. The value of a share of the mutual fund, known as the net asset value per share (NAV), is calculated daily based on the total value of the fund divided by the number of shares currently issued and outstanding.&lt;br /&gt;[source: wikipedia]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ModoiLkc1-o/R5M8TxKsaoI/AAAAAAAAAPI/vW4TNkzfsX4/s1600-h/MPj03877110000%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ModoiLkc1-o/R5M8TxKsaoI/AAAAAAAAAPI/vW4TNkzfsX4/s320/MPj03877110000%5B1%5D.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157532308582722178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Mutual Funds come in various hues and colors. They can be catorized on various basis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mutual Funds&lt;/span&gt; can be categorized by their structure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Open Ended&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Closed Ended&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Interval&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;They can be categorized by their investment objective.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Equity Scheme&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Debt Schemes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Growth Scheme&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Balanced Scheme&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Income Scheme&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Money Market Scheme&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Tax-Saving Scheme&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Sectoral(Industry Specific) or Thematic Scheme&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Index Scheme &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;and so on to list a few.......&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;and they can also be categorized into investment options&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Growth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Bonus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Dividend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Dividend Reinvestment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;We will discuss each one of them so that it helps you in choosing and picking right fund according to your investment objective.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1. By Structure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Open Ended Scheme&lt;/span&gt; doesn't have a fixed maturity and are available for sale and repurchase on any business day. These schemes are highly liquid and have become very popular.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Closed Ended Schemes&lt;/span&gt; comes with a fixed maturity period and are launched with an Initial Pulbic Offer(or New Fund Offer), Investor can buy and sell once they are listed.&lt;br /&gt;Closed-ended schemes are usually more illiquid as compared to open-ended schemes and hence trade at a discount to the NAV. This discount tends towards the NAV closer to the maturity date of the scheme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Interval Schemes&lt;/span&gt; are combination of open and closed schemes, they can be traded or might be open for sale or repurchase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So now we can discuss the schemes with their&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;2. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Investment objectives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Equity Schemes&lt;/span&gt; are also known as &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;growth schemes&lt;/span&gt; and aims to provide capital appreciation over a period of time. These schemes invest majority of their funds in Equity and small portion in debt or money market instruments. These schemes are not for investor seeking regular income.&lt;br /&gt;They are ideal for investors who have a long-term investment horizon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Balanced Schemes&lt;/span&gt; are for the investor seeking both income and moderate growth. They invest both in shares and fixed income securities. They regularly distribute part of their income and capital gains. They are safe from huge market fluctuation because part money is invested in fixed income, so when market rise they don't rise as much, but when market fall it protects you from steep fall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tax Saving Schemes&lt;/span&gt; also known &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ELSS ( Equity Linked Saving Schemes)&lt;/span&gt; comes with a lock in period of 3 years where u&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;nits purchased cannot be assigned / transferred/       pledged / redeemed / switched. These schemes are promoted to encourage individuals to save and invest in equities. They offer tax rebates and are good for investor seeking tax exemption under section 88.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Sectoral or thematic funds &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;invest in a particular sector as defined in their investment objective. They tend to outperform if the sector is showing relative growth than the overall market. But these products are also risky because they are not diversified and weightage is given on a particular sector or industry. Recently Infrastructure, power and real estate funds have become very popular.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Index Schemes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;are schemes which aims to provide the returns equivalent of a particular index of an exchange. Some investors are interested in getting returns equivalent of the market and not of an particular sectors.&lt;br /&gt;Index schemes are some times unmanaged schemes as they don't churn their portfolio and just try to perform equivalent to the index.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Money Market Schemes &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;are for investors who wants to park their surplus money for a short period of time. These schemes provide moderate income with safety of invested capital. These schemes invest in gilts, inter bank call money, deposit certificate, commercial papers etc...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next we need to discuss the schemes based on investment options. This can be a bit interesting topic because investor normally spend lot of time selecting a particular fund house and then a particular scheme in it, but once they have decided on the fund, they tend to ignore the investment option or sometime it is totally arbitrary or on the whims of the agent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I will take up the discussion on the mutual fund investment option in the part II of this article which will be published soon.&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/mutual-funds-demystified.html" title="Mutual Funds Demystified..." /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=7160648504396190090" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/7160648504396190090/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/7160648504396190090" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/7160648504396190090" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-6556461924408454512</id><published>2008-01-19T11:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-19T11:26:34.482-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Gyan" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Short Selling" /><title type="text">Double Edged Sword</title><content type="html">The current turmoil in the dalal street is attributed to various factors acting in the stock market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Global slowdown theory.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;FII pulling out the money.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Liquidity crunch due to huge IPOs and oversubscription on top of it.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Valuations over stretched, with long bull market.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Historically good month for the market "January" has not been so good this time.&lt;/p&gt;Currently on Retail participants are allowed to short sell. The market regulator SEBI( The Securities and Exchange Board of India) had banned short selling by institutional investors in 2001 following a stock scam. Till now, only retail investors are allowed to sell short, which means selling securities that the seller does not hold at the time of trade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earlier RBI has allowed foreign institutional investor to short sell and now SEBI will allow all categories of investors be it FII, Local Institutional Investors, Mutual Funds,Retail to short sell.&lt;br /&gt;Short sell allows price discovery of a stock. Though this is a positive move and will add to the liquidity and depth of the market, it is yet to be seen whether it will tame the irrational rise/fall in the market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ModoiLkc1-o/R5JMnxKsanI/AAAAAAAAAPA/ELFePwnnkLo/s1600-h/handrawb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157268769389439602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ModoiLkc1-o/R5JMnxKsanI/AAAAAAAAAPA/ELFePwnnkLo/s200/handrawb.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ModoiLkc1-o/R5JMPhKsamI/AAAAAAAAAO4/4L9ELD5ssBA/s1600-h/handrawb.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Investors should be ready for this double edged sword, one the existing global and local scenarios and another the short selling which will unravel itself from 1st of February. &lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/double-edged-sword.html" title="Double Edged Sword" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=6556461924408454512" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/6556461924408454512/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/6556461924408454512" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/6556461924408454512" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-5866472380164341647</id><published>2008-01-17T21:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-17T21:18:37.736-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News" /><title type="text">Punj Lloyd News</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pipavav Shipyard&lt;/span&gt; has filed DHRP with Sebi.  Planning to raise 200 million dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Punj Lloyd has 25% stake in Pipavav shipyard. Punj LLoyd stake valued at $450 million.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Punj LLoyd is up 2% after this news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Punj Lloyd is our favorite stock and you can see various articles posted about it on our blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2007/11/stock-pic-from-engineering-infra-space.html" id="r-0_0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2007/11/stock-pic-from-engineering-infra-space.html&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2007/12/punj-lloyd-research-report.html"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2007/12/punj-lloyd-research-report.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/ipo-upcoming-issues/pipavav-shipyard-files-ipo-papers-to-raise-36-200m-srcs/10/28/321914" id="r-0_0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/punj-lloyd-news.html" title="Punj Lloyd News" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=5866472380164341647" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/5866472380164341647/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/5866472380164341647" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/5866472380164341647" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-1472701708395266286</id><published>2008-01-17T12:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-17T12:44:17.778-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News" /><title type="text">Reliance Power IPO Subscription</title><content type="html">Reliance Power IPO Subscribed 9 times in Retail  Category by EOD 17 Jan.</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/reliance-power-ipo-subscription.html" title="Reliance Power IPO Subscription" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=1472701708395266286" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/1472701708395266286/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/1472701708395266286" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/1472701708395266286" /><author><name>Ashish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00363150236772083185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-6072328084742018914</id><published>2008-01-17T11:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-17T11:33:38.009-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sectorial Overview" /><title type="text">Indian Entertainment and Media Sector</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Entertainment and Media Sector Overview&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entertainment and Media is going through a very exicting times. With challenges it is providing huge growth oppurtunities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New technologies are evolving and convergence is the new buzz word.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This sectory comprises of various stake holders including Films, Television, Print,radio, music,mobile,Internet,studios,gaming,&lt;br /&gt;animation,advertising,IPTV, DTH,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ModoiLkc1-o/R4-rkBKsakI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/gC8Cp3hp9qU/s1600-h/13112006070.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ModoiLkc1-o/R4-rkBKsakI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/gC8Cp3hp9qU/s200/13112006070.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5156528733639436866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mobile TV,content provider(Value added service, mobile money transfer),&lt;br /&gt;production and distribution, multiplexes etc,etc.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ModoiLkc1-o/R4-r8xKsalI/AAAAAAAAAOY/MXi7y4jLOrI/s1600-h/3331Bollywood_Sign.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ModoiLkc1-o/R4-r8xKsalI/AAAAAAAAAOY/MXi7y4jLOrI/s200/3331Bollywood_Sign.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5156529158841199186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indian film community has recieved industry status. Estimated at 4 billion dollar by 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The whole sector is growing around an average of about 20% annually with Internet advertising showing highest growth of 40%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Increased FDI limit is also providing boost to the industry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Convergence of various entertainment platform will require more collaboration between various stake holders. Existing players are trying to gain foothold in whole value chain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eg : - ADAG :- Already in film production,distribution, multiplexes, radio, internet gaming etc...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2007/11/here-is-my-latest-pick-from-media.html"&gt;Network 18&lt;/a&gt; group :- stakes in various news channel, various websites and web content provider, internet advertising, JV with jagran prakashan for print media, Yellow Pages business etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With so much interest and huge investment flowing in this sector will be growing more than the Indian GDP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some Interesting Read :-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ficci-frames.com/ficci-entertainment/Industry%20Overview.pdf"&gt;Industry Overview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ficci.com/news/viewnews1.asp?news_id=194"&gt;Entertainment &amp;amp; media sector to grow 137% by 2010 : FICCI in news&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ibef.org/industry/mediaentertainment.aspx"&gt;Media and Entertainment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Previous Posts on Sectoral Overview &lt;/span&gt;:-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/infrastructure-funds-and-sector.html%5C"&gt;Infrastructure Funds and Sector Overview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/medical-tourism-in-india.html"&gt;Medical Tourism in India&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2007/12/seamless-pipes-global-industry-scenario.html"&gt;Seamless Pipes Global Industry Scenario&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/indian-entertainment-and-media-sector.html" title="Indian Entertainment and Media Sector" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=6072328084742018914" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/6072328084742018914/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/6072328084742018914" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/6072328084742018914" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-5916063774615862638</id><published>2008-01-17T11:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-17T11:24:00.813-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News" /><title type="text">JP Hydro Out of F&amp;O Curb</title><content type="html">Due to unwinding of some Open Interest  in JP Hydro,  FnO ban have been lifted from the Underlying.</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/jp-hydro-out-of-f-curb.html" title="JP Hydro Out of F&amp;O Curb" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=5916063774615862638" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/5916063774615862638/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/5916063774615862638" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/5916063774615862638" /><author><name>Ashish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00363150236772083185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-4519517517131614030</id><published>2008-01-17T02:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-17T02:53:46.671-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News" /><title type="text">Good News for HFCL : merger with Datacom</title><content type="html">DataCom which has got spectrum might be merged with HFCL Infotel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After long time HFCL was not on lower circuit. It might start its upward journey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telecomtiger.com/fullstory.aspx?pagenum=2&amp;amp;storyid=387"&gt;Check this news&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/good-news-for-hfcl-merger-with-datacom.html" title="Good News for HFCL : merger with Datacom" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=4519517517131614030" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/4519517517131614030/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/4519517517131614030" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/4519517517131614030" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-9031231620453897068</id><published>2008-01-16T21:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-16T21:07:07.893-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News" /><title type="text">Stock News</title><content type="html">Indian Stock Market News&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BHEL &lt;/span&gt;:- It is getting hammered severely and has gone below 2300. It is becoming more attractive on every fall. Fundamentally very good long term play.&lt;br /&gt;After sigining MOU with TN govt for power projects ,Bhel has begun negotiations to set up joint ventures with state government institutions in Maharashtra, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh, which will not only generate steady orders for the firm but potentially block out emerging rivals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bhel keep receiving flak for delays in power projects, but it has plans for new plants which will eventually improve the capacity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BHEL is eyeing thaw in its relationship with NTPC. They have entered into joint venture for producing capital goods and NTPC may give nod to buy super critical boilers from BHEL instead of competitive bids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;RIL &lt;/span&gt;:- Reliance Industries may post more than 1 billion dollars of profit with quarter. May hive of E&amp;amp;P division and then Reliance Retail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;GMR , Reliance Energy&lt;/span&gt; and total 23 bidders have bid for amritsar airport modernization project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ADAG &lt;/span&gt;:- After acquiring Adlabs, 10% stake in INOX is heavily bullish on Media and Entertainment space.Reliance Entertainment has acquired 250 cinema houses in the US. The company  has plans to make 25-30 films all of which will go into production this year.  Zapak.com is also ADAG group company.</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/stock-news.html" title="Stock News" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=9031231620453897068" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/9031231620453897068/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/9031231620453897068" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/9031231620453897068" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-4471833894697436421</id><published>2008-01-16T11:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-16T11:29:05.196-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Thought for the day" /><title type="text">Thought of the Day</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_rHJb38F_bo4/R45a25XtkDI/AAAAAAAAE_M/n8fBR0JdZb4/s1600-h/India-INR-Indian-Rupees-fifty-Rs-50-Rs50-rupee-note-perforated-front-1-DHD.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_rHJb38F_bo4/R45a25XtkDI/AAAAAAAAE_M/n8fBR0JdZb4/s200/India-INR-Indian-Rupees-fifty-Rs-50-Rs50-rupee-note-perforated-front-1-DHD.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5156158522545508402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="quoteA-quFirstLetter"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;he safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/thought-of-day.html" title="Thought of the Day" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=4471833894697436421" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/4471833894697436421/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/4471833894697436421" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/4471833894697436421" /><author><name>Ashish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00363150236772083185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1316327749007637589.post-6948117102620470086</id><published>2008-01-16T10:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-17T03:07:16.709-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News" /><title type="text">Stocks under F&amp;O Curb</title><content type="html">Following scrips are under ban because they have crossed 95% market wide position. FnO Curb (banned) Data as of 17th Jan 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table class="contenttext" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tablehead"&gt;Sr.No.&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td class="tablehead"&gt;Symbol&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;/tr&gt;    &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td class="t2"&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;td class="t0"&gt;ADLABSFILM&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td class="t2"&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;td class="t0"&gt;BINDALAGRO&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td class="t2"&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;td class="t0"&gt;ESSAROIL&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td class="t2"&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;td class="t0"&gt;GMRINFRA&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td class="t2"&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;td class="t0"&gt;IFCI&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td class="t2"&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;td class="t0"&gt;ISPATIND&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td class="t2"&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;td class="t0"&gt;IVRPRIME&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td class="t2"&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;td class="t0"&gt;JPHYDRO&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td class="t2"&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;td class="t0"&gt;ORCHIDCHEM&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td class="t2"&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;td class="t0"&gt;PARSVNATH&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td class="t2"&gt;11&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;td class="t0"&gt;RAJESHEXPO&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td class="t2"&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;       &lt;td class="t0"&gt;RPL&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source NSE India.</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/2008/01/stocks-under-f-curb.html" title="Stocks under F&amp;O Curb" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1316327749007637589&amp;postID=6948117102620470086" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/6948117102620470086/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://beyond-basics.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/6948117102620470086" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1316327749007637589/posts/default/6948117102620470086" /><author><name>Mahitosh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16285293609888416868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry></feed>
