The market opened in the red on 17th January, overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 4.66 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 32,27,320.73  crore.

The market opened in the red on 17th January. The previous day witnessed  the Sensex going up by 59.83 points to end at 41,932.56  and the Nifty was up by 12.20 points to close at 12,355.50.

The consolidated revenue for the quarter Q3FY20 came in at Rs 533.6 crore, as against Rs 417.35 crore in the corresponding quarter last year, registering 27.9 per cent YoY increase. In this quarter, domestic business grew by 35 per cent YoY and international sales by 24 per cent YoY.

The market opened in the red on 17th January. The previous day witnessed  the Sensex going up by 59.83 points to end at 41,932.56  and the Nifty was up by 12.20 points to close at 12,355.50. 

The Supreme Court of India has lifted the suspension of Environment Clearance (EC) imposed on the construction of a new greenfield airport at Mopa (Goa) of GMR Goa International Airport Limited (GGIAL), which is a subsidiary of GMR Infrastructure Limited.

A close below 12,270 may provide some bearish signs for the short-term. As long as it does not close below the prior bar low, be with the positive bias for the target of 12,400 and above. Stocks in news: Rallis India, Shriram Transport Finance, GMR Infrastructure, Premier Explosives, Nilkamal.

In the previous trading sessions, markets celebrated the phase 1 of the trade deal but that did not last long as the markets gave away most of its gains. As we enter the final trading session of the week, the SGX Nifty is trading flat and is likely to be cautious ahead of the weekend.

Subscribers can ask their queries regarding stocks they hold and get our expert guidance.

Sentiment Indicators.

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

The concern of financing retirement is usually pondered over in one’s early 40’s. So, how should you go for planning your retirement in early 40’s? Let’s find out!

Review on 1 stocks recommended in past.

Fundamental Analysis of 1 Stocks (with 180 days horizon).

Street Talk

If one recalls the commercial ad of the well-known amusement park-Essel World, it says ‘Essel World mein rahunga main, ghar nahi nahi jaunga main!’

The following stocks will be in focus during Friday’s trading session in the light of their result announcements: Tata Consultancy Services, HCL Technologies, L&T Finance Holdings, Reliance Industries and ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company.

On Thursday Wockhardt announced that the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved two of its new antibiotics, EMROK (IV) and EMROK-O for acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections, including diabetic foot infections and concurrent bacteraemia, thereby, becoming the first Indian company to achieve approval for newly-discovered antibiotics.

On Thursday, Alphageo announced that it has received Notification of Award (NOA) from the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) for two contracts worth Rs 43.23 crore and Rs 68.75 crore.

We have considered BSE 500 companies and listed down top five companies in which promoters have increased their stake as well another set of top five companies in which promoters have decreased their stake in the quarter ended December 31, 2019.

BSE Sensex ended at 41932.56, up by 59.83 points or 0.14 per cent after trading in a range of 41,812.28 and 42,059.45. There were 12 stocks advancing, against 18 stocks declining on the index. The broader indices ended in green; the BSE mid-cap index rose 0.78 per cent, while small-cap index was up by 0.78 per cent.

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

Readers are requested to send only one query at a time so that more readers get a chance. Have questions relating to any aspect of personal finance. Ask DSIJ at editorial@DSIJ.in and get your queries resolved. 

MF Select- 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. 

Data Bank

Market fluctuations and near-term negative returns have always remained temporary and as time progresses; they do get adjusted in one’s portfolio returns and builds a good experience.

There is a tectonic shift happening in the asset management industry, all over the world. Passive investment is attracting more and more funds compared to active funds. In one of the reports by Emerging Portfolio Fund Research (EPFR),

The last few years have been difficult for most of the mutual fund investors. Their investments in mutual fund schemes through Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) have generated lesser returns compared to very safe, fixed deposits in banks.

If you are a serious investor and follow an asset allocation method to decide the asset mix for your portfolio, you would typically have equity, debt, and gold in it. While asset allocation helps in diversifying your portfolio, each of these asset classes requires a different investment strategy to stay on course, advises Hemant Rustagi, CEO, Wiseinvest Advisors.

The shares of Jet Airways (India) hit lower circuit on January 16, 2020 (Thursday) amidst reports that the Indian multi-industry, Hinduja Group, which had expressed their interest of investing in this airline earlier, has now backed out on the grounds that it found ‘no value’ in the company.

The investments in the portfolio must be periodically aligned with the risk profile. Dynamic asset allocation funds, like balanced advantage fund, asset allocator fund, etc., allow you to maintain a prudent asset allocation strategy based on the relative valuations.

The recommendations provided in this column are taken from various market sources such as brokers, analysts, dealers and investment strategists, etc. These recommendations may not be backed by strong fundamentals. Therefore we advise readers to use their own discretion before investing in these recommendation

Please suggest me the Best SIP and Mutual fund to invest.

The market has a way of always rewarding the patient investor. But that’s if he or she is sitting on the right investments. At the same time, there are opportunities galore for discerning investors exploring the next prospect

In this edition, we have reviewed Tata Power Company and BHEL. We suggest our reader-investors to HOLD in Tata Power Company and BHEL

QueryBoard

I sold a residential flat during the current financial year 2019-20.

The market opened flat on 16th January. The previous day witnessed  the Sensex going down by 79.90 points to end at 41,872.73  and the Nifty was down by 19 points to close at 12,343.30.  

ROIC is a highly reliable and useful metric to consider when measuring investment quality. It is not readily available like other popular ratios and it takes a bit of work, but once investors start figuring out ROIC, they can be better armed to pick out stocks with great value, suggests Anthony Fernandes

It is a dream of any value investor to identify stocks that have some sort of moat in it. What is this ‘moat’ and how does one identify stocks with investment moat? Are these so called moat stocks worth considering? Yogesh Supekar explains how best to identify stocks with investment moat while Karan Bhojwani shares a list of stocks with probable investment moat built in it

Equity investors, from time to time, are faced with contingent events and shocks that threaten to shake, rattle and roll the markets.

The market opened flat on 16th January. The previous day witnessed  the Sensex going down by 79.90 points to end at 41,872.73  and the Nifty was down by 19 points to close at 12,343.30.  

The market opened flat on 16th January, overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 1.90 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 13,81,029.24  crore.

Godawari Power and Ispat Limited has improved its financial and operational performance over a period of time due to higher realisations and improved capacity utilisation of its plants, thus making it a sound choice for investors

The market opened flat on 16th January, overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 1.90 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 13,81,029.24  crore.

The Indian stock market has continued to touch new highs since November 28, 2019. As of now, the Nifty has reached new peaks seven times in the last one and a half months. After breaking down from the narrow range flat base, it bounced back with a gap up and continues to rise.

Strides Pharma Science Limited has announced that its step‐down wholly-owned subsidiary, Strides Pharma Global Pte Limited (Singapore) has received approval for Loratadine Softgel Capsules, 10 mg (OTC) from the United States Food & Drug Administration (USFDA).

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.

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

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.

I thoroughly enjoyed your article on ratio analysis covered in your previous issue.

As of now, the markets are zooming ahead and touching new heights. This does not come as a surprise to us given the fact that we had predicted several months ago about how the Sensex would get close to 41,500.

The trend is upward but the momentum is waning and, as long as Nifty trades above 12,270 continue with long positions. Stocks in news: Yes Bank, Torrent Pharmaceuticals, Asian Paints, Kotak Mahindra Bank, DFM Foods, Mangalam Cement.

This Thursday morning, the big news is that US President and Chinese Vice-Premier have signed a ‘phase one’ trade deal in Washington. However, the early trend indicates that the Indian markets are not much cheerful about this deal as signing of deal was on expected lines and domestic markets are expected to witness a flat start.

On January 15, 2020 (Wednesday), Capacite lnfraprojects announced that it had received an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract worth Rs 407.16 crore from Integrated Unit (PW) Division for the construction of a multi-story super speciality hospital building at Sir J J Hospital Campus, Byculla (Mumbai).

AUM of domestic mutual fund industry continues its uptrend. Read on to find the sectors that remained favourite in the year 2019

BSE Sensex ended at 41,872.73, down by 79.90 points or 0.19 per cent after trading in a range of 41,648.11 and 41,969.86. There were 15 stocks advancing against 15 stocks declining on the index.

The following stocks will be in focus during Thursday’s trading session in the light of their result announcements: Cyient, Karnataka Bank, Rallis India, South Indian Bank and Tata Metaliks.

Deepak Nitrite Limited today informed the bourses that it has acquired industrial and admeasuring of around 125 acres situated at an industrial phase-GIDC Industrial Estate, Dahej.

Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI) today announced its third-quarter result of the fiscal year 2019-20. The company’s consolidated revenue from operation went up by 9 per cent on a QoQ basis to Rs 2,811.1 crore.

Everyone is eager to know what the mutual fund managers bought and sold, in fact, most of them are keen to know what they ‘bought’. Hence, let’s find out the stocks that attracted the fund managers in December 2019.

L&T Limited’s construction arm has secured orders from prestigious clients across various Indian states for its varied businesses. The value of these orders is worth Rs 2,500-Rs 5,000 crore.

The market opened in the red on 15th January. The previous day witnessed the Sensex going up by 92.94 points to end at 41,952.63 and the Nifty was up by 32.75 points to close at 12,362.30. 

The market opened in the red on 15th January. The previous day witnessed the Sensex going up by 92.94 points to end at 41,952.63 and the Nifty was up by 32.75 points to close at 12,362.30. 

Alembic Pharmaceuticals today informed the bourses that it has received the final USFDA approval for its abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) Tizanidine Hydrochloride Capsules, 2 mg, 4 mg, and 6 mg.

The market opened in the red on 15th January, overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 1.43 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 10,44,468.80 crore.

The market opened in the red on 15th January, overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 1.43 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 10,44,468.80 crore.

Sun Pharmaceuticals Limited has announced that one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries has entered into an exclusive licensing and supply agreement with Rockwell Medical Inc, to commercialise Rockwell's Triferic, a proprietary iron replacement and haemoglobin maintenance drug, for treating anaemia in hemodialysis patients in India.

The best strategy would be running the long positions with a trailing stop-loss of prior day low. In any case, if the Nifty closes below the breakout level of 12,250 then, the short-term weakness is possible. Stocks in news: Pidilite Industries, Lemon Tree, Godawari Power & Ispat, CSB Bank, National Peroxide, Bharti Airtel.

For the last four trading sessions, the bulls have been marching higher and scaling to new heights. The phrase ‘market hit a new peak’ has become such a standard remark, that its absence on one day could hit market participants psyche more badly than any real fundamental factor.

The stock of Berger Paints India Limited has given a symmetrical triangle breakout on the daily timeframe along with relatively higher volumes.

The banking industries performance is decided on many factors such as asset quality (NPAs), deposit growth, loan book growth and provisions for probable defaults of the outstanding loan assets. The early trend of the third quarter performance as depicted from the results of IndusInd bank and Bandhan indicates that provisioning number may also decide the stock performance of the banks.

The honourable Arbitral Tribunal dismissed the claim made by Lauren Jyoti Private Limited (Lauren) which is an EPC Contractor, appointed by Godawari Green Energy Limited (GGEL).

On January 14, 2020 (Tuesday), Credit Analysis and Research Limited (CARE) assigned an upward rating to the long-term bank facilities of Saksoft Limited from 'CARE BBB+' to 'CARE A-'.

On Tuesday, Indian equity markets traded on a flat note for most part of the day but during the last hours, the market headed northward to settle at a record high.

The shares of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) climbed up to record a new 52-week high on January 14, 2020 (Tuesday).

The market opened in the green on 14th January. The previous day witnessed  the Sensex going up by 0.62 percent to end at 41,859.69  and the Nifty was up by 0.59 percent to close at 12,329.55.  

Value funds were among the worst performers last year. Hence, we have discussed here as to whether or not, you should go about them in 2020, and if yes, how? Let’s find out!

On January 14, 2020 (Tuesday), Jay Gems Incorporation, a subsidiary of Renaissance Global signed an agreement with one of the largest jewellery retailer, Lao Feng Xiang, to launch enchanted Disney fine jewellery in retail stores of mainland China.

The shares of Edelweiss Financial Services jumped after the Chairman of the Company, Rashesh Shah confirmed that they have no relation with the currency exchange service-Capstone Forex.

The core inflation which excludes the volatile items like food and oil prices stood at 3.7 per cent, as compared to 3.5 per cent, in November 2019.

The market opened in the green on 14th January. The previous day witnessed the Sensex going up by 0.62 percent to end at 41,859.69 and the Nifty was up by 0.59 percent to close at 12,329.55. 

The market opened in the green on 14th January, overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 1.18 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 8,74,839.80  crore.

The market opened in the green on 14th January, overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 1.18 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 8,74,839.80 crore.

We expect the momentum to continue in the index. Nifty may attempt to test levels of 12,380-12,400 in the near term. On the flipside, the support now stands at 12,250-12,280. Stocks in news: NMDC, Linde India, IRCTC, Manappuram Finance.

The Indian markets are likely to carry a positive baton from the previous trading sessions. Nifty, which closed at a record closing high in the previous trading, will now aim for the next milestone of 12,400 and helping the cause is positive global cues.

IRCTC announced that Ministry of Railways has given its approval to IRCTC for operating Ahmedabad-Mumbai Central Tejas Express.

Tata Power Solar Systems received a Letter of Award (LoA) from National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) for a 250 MW solar project under the Central Public Sector Undertaking (CPSU) scheme.

Lupin announced that the inspection by United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) at the company’s manufacturing facility in Tarapur concluded with Official Action Indicated (OAI).

Infosys announced that it had partnered with GEFCO, a European leader in automotive logistics, to support its digital transformation over the next five years.

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited has been picked up by our Bollinger Band Squeeze scanner, which suggests that the stock is near a consolidation breakout.

The stock of Radico Khaitan Limited has given a downward sloping trendline breakout on Monday, which is formed by connecting swing highs from August 16, 2019. The breakout was supported by strong volumes.

Even as Sensex and Nifty made record highs on the first day of the week, the broader markets were seen outperforming the key benchmark indices. Sensex managed to inch up by 0.62 per cent and close at 41,859 levels while Nifty managed to close at 12,329 up by 0.59 per cent.

The debt is one of the most left-out parts of a portfolio, which people generally ignore with an assumption that it does not require any review. However, that might prove to be dangerous. In this article, we have discussed how you can create your debt MF portfolio.