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  • India week ahead - 23rd - 28th Nov 2009 by Jose Koshy
    The past week the markets exhibited a sideways move with a +ve bias and moved up 1 %. The markets continue to defy gravity with the loose $ regime, despite the $ strengthening a bit, markets continue its march, looks like there are too many hedged positions in the stock & commodity markets.... More »
    November 22, 2009 • IFN, EEM
  • India Week ahead - 16th - 21st Nov 2009 by Jose Koshy
    The past week the markets moved up on a good IIP data & the disinvestment story, the IIP data came @ 9.1 % way above expectations. The inflation is raising its head once again; the loose money policy is set to drive it sharply. The food inflation is @ 13.6 %, so are we out of the woods? The... More »
    November 16, 2009 • IFN, INFY, EEM
  • India - The week ahead - 9th - 14th November 2009 by Jose Koshy
    The past week saw some volatility and the markets touched a low of 4550 levels and then pulled back to 4800+ levels. This confirms the traders & investors are confused with the state of the market. Looking at the global economy, we continue to see things have not improved as dramatically as... More »
    November 8, 2009 • TTM, INFY, WIT
  • India week ahead - 2nd - 7th November 2009 by Jose Koshy
    The week saw a deep correction as expected with a 5.4 % fall, we have been expecting this fall and it came. The global markets were going up on a weak $ and all the noise that the global economy is growing back again, this is on $ 2 trillion of stimulus induced growth. Can the world stabilize... More »
    November 1, 2009 • IFN, EEM, INFY
  • India Week Ahead - 26th - 31st October 2009 by Jose Koshy
    The week spanned out to a script, the Nifty closed at the lows of the day, falling by as much as 3.3 %, India was one of the worst performing markets this despite China & other Asia pacific markets moving up. There was a level of tiredness and skittishness at the top. The $ fall being... More »
    October 25, 2009 • HDB, IFN, EEM
  • India - week ahead - 19th - 25th Oct 2009 by Jose Koshy
    A very happy Diwali to all. The markets last week was volatile and ended up 3.6 %, against what I had recommended, the stop loss @ 5050, would have got triggered and moved up to 5142 levels at close. The markets moved up on positive news on IIP with a 10.4 % increase in August. The world will... More »
    October 18, 2009 • IFN, IBN, EEM
  • Price Probability Ranges for Key Asset Categories by Richard Shaw
    Last week we published a visual view of price range probability cones for several securities (SPY, FXI, TLT and UUP).  This article builds on the concepts in that article and provides a tabular view of the same kind of data for twenty-seven asset categories. The two tables below show the... More »
    October 13, 2009 • BND, MUB, IRF
  • India - Week Ahead - 12th - 18th Oct 2009 by Jose Koshy
    The markets last week was volatile and ended down 2.8 %, we had recommended a positional short and the position is in profit now. The markets seem to be tiring and the final up move was more of a technical move tan fundamental. The Indian market is now on a PE of 23 times, which is at the top... More »
    October 11, 2009 • IFN, EEM, INFY
  • CEF 3Q ’09 Flash Analysis by Joe Eqcome
    The average price change for the 13 CEF fund types for the 3rd quarter ’09 was 15.5%. The unweighted average price change for the 617 CEFs was 16.5%. Both exceeded the S&P 500, as measured by the SPDRs’ ETF (SPY), of 14.8%.  LoanPartFnds and GenEqFnds were the percentage... More »
    October 1, 2009 • FHI, IIF, IFN
  • The Best Long Term ETFs and Mutual Funds by Retirement Savior
    Do you want the best returns for the long run? Go to where the growth is. The financial community loves to talk about US stocks having a 7% real return, after it was popularized in Jeremy Seigel'sStocks for the Long Run. This translates to 10-11% return before we take inflation into... More »
    September 28, 2009 • FXI, IFN, IF

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