In the first trading session of the week, Sensex and Nifty have twinkled in the eyes of the investors by recording fresh highs in the initial minutes. By zooming more than 500 points during Monday’s morning session, Sensex is currently trading at 56,646.68 levels while Nifty is at 16,861.15 levels. 

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Economic value added also referred as residual income (RI) or economic profit is basically net income less a charge (deduction) for the cost of equity for common shareholders. RI is the residual after deducting all the costs of company’s capital, which is why it is also referred as residual income.

This week there are three NFOs open for subscription.

On the options’ front, massive open interest addition is seen in the 16,800 Put option as nearly 31.55 lakh shares have been added in the initial hour of the trade itself. 

ICICI Prudential Value Discovery Funds delivers 20.03% CAGR against its benchmark which delivers 15.91% CAGR over 17 years.

Several stocks from the textile sector were also seen outperforming in the past one week with some of the top gainers strengthening by 27.56 per cent.

The taper talk is over and the global markets have reacted positively to the comments made by the US fed chairman on Friday. Monday promises to be a green day for markets with SGX Nifty trading with gains of over 90 points.

Stove Kraft is engaged in the business of manufacturing & selling Kitchen & Home appliances products like pressure cookers, LPG stoves, non-stick cookware etc. under the brand name of 'Pigeon' and 'Gilma'. 

We find that several stocks jumped higher by more than 1000 per cent in 2021 alone with the top gainer Gita Renewable Energy soaring higher by more than 2216.42 per cent on YTD basis.

We find that at least 51 stocks more than doubled in one month alone while some of the stocks gained up to 190 per cent in similar period.

The BSE Energy index, BSE Oil & Gas index and BSE FMCG index are the other sectoral indices that showed substantial positive gains by gaining more than 5 per cent in one month alone. Some of the IT stocks managed to more than double in the past month itself. 

The week gone by saw BSE Oil & Gas index outperform along with the BSE Infra index and BSE Power index. While several mid-cap IT stocks outperformed several small cap IT stocks and micro-cap IT stocks managed to outperform the markets.

Asian Petroproducts & Exports, Fundviser Capital (India) and Fisher Chemic are some of the stocks from chemical sector that soared by 190 per cent, 130 per cent and 126 per cent respectively.

The BSE Capital Goods index has jumped higher by 3.92 per cent in the past one week.

Oil India was the top sectoral gainer, up by more than 6 per cent in the past one week while heavyweight RIL was able to jump higher by 3.75 per cent in similar timeframe.  

Several stocks from the chemical sector were seen trading at record highs with several stocks from the sector gaining higher by more than 10 per cent in the past one week.  

Several midcaps were seen trending this week with some of the mid-caps managing to gain by more than 27 per cent.  

Several small caps traded at record highs while few of the small caps that are constituents of BSE SmallCap managed to jump higher by more than 15 per cent in this week alone. 

Stocks, which are the most popular among retail investors, are known as penny stocks. However, in this article, we will refer them as 'small wonders' So basically, stocks that trade between Re 1 and Rs 20 will be termed as small wonders. 

The aluminium prices are at elevated levels despite of the weak demand from China. The production uncertainties for Aluminium persist as the smelters operating activities are hampered by the stern environmental norms in China. 

 Few companies with share price below Rs 100 were seen trading at fresh 52-week highs on Friday.

Several penny stocks were seen outperforming on Friday with few stocks trading below Rs 10 per share locked themselves in the upper circuit. 

In Friday's trading session, Sensex has managed to cross the 56,000 mark and has settled at 56,124.72 level while Nifty closed above 16,700 level. On the sectoral front, it was a green day as all the sectoral indices ended in green. BSE Smallcap index & BSE Midcap index also ended on a positive note.

BSE Sensex soared by more than 100 points with Ultratech Cement, LT and Dr Reddy’s being the top BSE Sensex gainers. BSE Sensex managed to close above the important 56k levels on Friday.

The global markets were supportive on Friday with European indices trading in green and the US futures signalling a positive start for the markets on Friday.  

According to standard economic theory, investors are rational and take into account many considerations before making any financial decisions. However, while we’d all like to believe that buying or selling stocks is a rational decision, anyone who has invested will tell you otherwise. There are many forces that shape our investment making decisions.

 Broader markets outperformed the frontline indices with BSE Midcap Index closing with gain of 1.04 per cent and the BSE SmallCap Index rising by 0.93 per cent. 

The commodities market today is advanced, using various financial instruments such as derivatives, futures, options, swaps, etc. In India, there are six commodity exchanges, the most prominent ones being the National Commodity and Derivative Exchange (NCDEX) and the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX). On these exchanges, commodity trading is carried out for various commodities such as gold, silver, natural gas, copper, soya bean, corn, crude oil, and many more items.  

Financial risk is the type of risk primarily associated with the risk of default on the loan taken by any entity. To evaluate any company’s capital structure and debt levels, as a part of quantitative analysis, financial risk ratios are used.

Considering that the broader markets continue to outperform the frontline gauge, we expect stock-specific action to continue on D-Street.

An option contract is one of the derivative contracts that is used as a risk management strategy by investors and traders to protect themselves against losses.

Stocks like L&T, TCS and Ultratech Cement are helping the cause as they combinedly have added nearly 32 points to Nifty’s kitty. Meanwhile, the broader market indices were seen outperforming frontline indices with Nifty Midcap 100 and Smallcap 100 advanced by 1.03 and 0.69 per cent, respectively.

Ideally, investors would always want to have access to financial reports that are based on sound financial reporting standards and which are free from manipulation. However, in practice, the quality of financial reports can vary greatly across companies, and therefore, earnings can be manipulated by accounting tricks, one-time items, or anomalies. In this article, we will understand the concept of quality of earnings (QoE) and how you, as an investor, can gauge the quality of earnings.

The market opened in red on August 27, 2021.

The market opened in red on August 27, 2021, overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 11,50,97,830 contracts with a turnover of Rs. 1,00,07,430.89 crore.

The market opened in red on August 27, 2021, overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 11,50,97,830 contracts with a turnover of Rs. 1,00,07,430.89 crore.

You can use the savings that you make through these schemes for retirement, higher education, children’s education, marriage, at the time of job loss, to reduce debts, and more.

Zen Technologies is a small arms manufacturing company. Market participant are betting in better prospects for the company post the fresh notification from the GOI on Drone Rules for 2021.  

BSE SmallCap Index is trading flat with negative bias while BSE Sensex is down by 0.40 per cent or 233 points.  

A PESTEL analysis, or more recently named PESTELE, is a framework or tool used by marketers to analyse & monitor the macro-environmental (external marketing environment) factors, which will have an impact on the performance of an organisation. The result obtained from this analysis is used to identify threats & weaknesses, which are used further in SWOT analysis. 

Some of the outperforming BSE 500 stocks displayed a bullish engulfing pattern on Thursday. Bullish Engulfing pattern is respected by bulls as the buyers dominate the trade. 

HFCL Ltd is a diverse telecom infrastructure enabler with active interest spanning telecom infrastructure development, system integration, and manufacture and supply of high-end telecom equipment, Optical Fiber and Optic Fiber Cable (OFC). 

Often Bullish Moving Average Crossover, Bullish MACD crossover and Bullish Stochastic Crossover are used as indicators to time the markets. 

Multi-national corporation (MNC) stocks are quite popular among the investors' group largely because they are good dividend payers and also, play defensive when volatility increases.   

Few small caps such as Apollo Pipes have given a channel breakout on daily chart and is trading at life highs while we have ABB Power Products with negative earnings and yet trading at fresh 52-week highs, outperforming the markets.  

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The August futures and options series turned out to be scintillating for Nifty as it advanced nearly 5.7 per cent during this particular month’s series.

The European markets have slipped in to the red and the US futures are flat at this point of time. While the frontline indices were more or less flat, the broader market indices grabbed investors' attention by gaining ground on Thursday.

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Technical Analysis of 1 Stock (with 15 days horizon).

 Sentiment Indicators.

The broader markets outperformed the frontline indices with likes of ESAB, Zen Technology and Swan Energy dominating the gains in small cap space. Several penny stocks shined on Thursday trading session.   

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Nifty from all-time highs is neither showing weakness not giving a fresh breakout suggesting an indecision. The broader markets outperformed frontline indices yet again with BSE SmallCap Index gaining by 0.3 per cent on Thursday.  

Despite the volatility experienced due to the expiry day at markets, the benchmark indices ended flat with a positive bias. While BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices zoomed 0.3 percent each in the broader markets, the sectoral indices like BSE FMCG, BSE Oil & Gas, BSE Realty, and BSE Power outperformed.

Going into September series, we expect the stock-specific action to continue in the markets. Hence, we have selected a list of stocks that meets the criteria of the T20 breakout system.

India INX, BSE’s international arm, commenced its trading activities on January 16, 2017 and is India’s first International Exchange set up at GIFT IFSC. It is one of the world’s most advanced technology platforms with a response time of 4 micro seconds and allows trading for 22 hours a day, in a range of financial market products such as index and single stock derivatives, commodity derivatives, currency derivatives and debt securities, to allow international investors to trade from anywhere across the globe.

ANSR, a Global Market Leader in the business of designing, establishing and operating Global In –house Centres (GICs) has joined hands with GIFT City, India’s only operational International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) to attract the global in-house centres to set up highend processing centres related to financial services at GIFT City.

Option trading is often considered lucrative by traders as there is always a chance to book abnormal returns in the short term. Option trading is also popular because it requires less amount of capital.

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The recommendations provided in this column are taken from various market sources such as brokers, analysts, dealers and investment strategists, etc.

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In this edition, we have reviewed Tata Motors Ltd. and Himadri Specialty Chemicals Ltd.

Since the beginning of August, BSE Mid-Cap and Small-Cap indices have underperformed the frontline indices by decent margins and a stark difference has materialised. In this article, Armaan Madhani elucidates the actual definition, causes, and examples of a bear market along with other key concepts that investors should be cognizant of. The report also highlights stocks that are currently trading in the bear market territory.

Any transaction that takes place in the stock market, whether buy or sell, requires brokers’ intervention. They work as an agent between the stock market and market participants. Choosing the right broker is essential for getting the right value for your money. In this article, we will discuss discount broking, full-service broking, and the difference between the two.   

After severely facing the strain of the COVID-19 pandemic, August 2020 and August 2021 are the months depicting the recovery of the economy from the first and second waves of COVID-19, respectively. Being at 39,000 levels in August 2020, BSE's Sensex is today trading at 56,000 levels.  

This section gives decisive investment rationales to our subscribers on the stock queries they have raised to our research team.

The chemical sector in India is rapidly moving from a commodity player to a value-based solutions provider. This upward integration will help both big as well as smaller players and create avenues to foster higher collaboration across the value chain

This is a super house of financial data on 3500 corporates with up to date information. In the Magazine version the top 1100 -1400 companies are covered while the data on the entire 3500 companies is available in excel format for subscribers to download.

The market opened in green on August 26, 2021, overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 6,95,08,330 contracts with a turnover of Rs. 60,27,206.34 crore.

Databank of top-ranked equity funds based on DSIJ's proprietary research methodology.

Affle India is in downtrend and has slipped by more than 30 per cent from its 52-week highs, it made in March this year. Trading at Rs 4155 per share the stock is locked in upper circuit. In one month, the stock is down by 4 per cent while on YTD basis the stock is up by more than 7 per cent. 

The company offers a range of innovative and customised solutions for businesses and government institutions and is one of India's leading VSAT providers, thus chalking out a visibly strong growth curve

ETFs or exchange-traded funds are a group of curated stocks that track an index, a commodity, or a mix of assets like the index fund. ETFs have features of stocks & mutual funds in the sense that, they can be traded like a stock on the exchange on a real-time basis and they also work like mutual funds as the underlying asset comprises of a set of stocks (like NIFTY or a commodity like gold). Let us look at the various types of ETFs prevalent in the market:  

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Asset allocation is a crucial step while designing a portfolio as it is one of the most deciding factors that help an investor in achieving his goals. Therefore, it is important to create a suitable mix between the asset classes that take into account the investor’s risk appetite and his investment objectives. 

During the last fortnight, the market was seen moving higher and it met its measured move price target of 16,700. The last two days of price action suggests that the Nifty once again may consolidate for some time.

Children's insurance plans are a combination of insurance as well as investment which helps in funding children's future financial obligations

The scrips in this column have been recommended with a 15-day investment horizon in mind and carry high risk. Therefore, investors are advised to take into account their risk appetite before investing, as fundamentals may or may not back the recommendations.
 

One of the biggest challenges for retirees as well as self-employed people in present times is to generate regular income at a healthy rate through their investments.

Home equity loan can be availed for any purpose and is available against both residential and non-residential properties

This section gives a recommendation of a stock having stock price below Rs 100 with sound fundamentals and expected to give handsome returns over a one-year time horizon. 

We see a lot of investors focusing only on returns and ignoring the risk part, which either leads to disastrous results or a devastating investment experience. One of the important things is to understand what sequence risk is all about

This column gives you scrip chosen by the research team during the fortnight that is fundamentally strong and expected to give good capital appreciation over a time period of 1 year.

This is our mutual fund recommendation. Every fortnight , we recommend one open-ended equity diversified fund that has the best potential of returns for the next one year considering its constituents remain the same

The market opened in green on August 26, 2021.

The market opened in green on August 26, 2021, overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 6,95,08,330 contracts with a turnover of Rs. 60,27,206.34 crore.

The market capitalisation of Infosys crossed Rs 7.45 lakh crore i.e. USD 100 billion, making it India's fourth company to enter the USD 100 billion club.

I thoroughly enjoyed your cover story in the latest issue on the Q1FY22 earnings season. It helped me gain a better perspective and become cognizant of the ground realities in the current market scenario.

The Indian markets are once again touching new highs and are amongst the world's best performers! FPIs have been net buyers in August after being net sellers in July.

By viewing each financial decision as part of a financial plan, it might help you to consider the long-term and short-term effects on your life goals.

The investment market is peppered with multiple investment options that serve myriad purposes and goals.

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Payment and other ancillary costs associated with buying a house can be a daunting prospect. The article walks you through the steps required to fulfil your dream of buying a house.

The mutual fund segment in India has come a long way since its inception in 1963 with the establishment of Unit Trust of India (UTI).