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Dolly Khanna has just raised holding in these six smallcaps
Chennai-based marquee investor Dolly Khanna, whose portfolio is entirely managed by her husband Rajiv Khanna, is known for spotting smallcap gems on Dalal Street.

March quarter shareholding data shows Khanna increased stake in at least six smallcap stocks during the quarter, as the broader market weakened in t he latter two months after a nearly 1

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Jhunjhunwala can't take eyes off JP Associates, again raising bets
Ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s name again appeared among key individual shareholders in crisis-hit Jaiprakash Associates, latest shareholding data provided by the company showed on Monday.

Jhunjhunwala was holding 3 crore shares, or 1.23 per cent stake, in the company as of March 31, 2018.

Shares of Jaiprakash Associates were trading 1.81 per

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BENGALURU: RMZ, one of India’s largest business park developers, has struck a nearly $1-billion deal to buy back shares held by Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and Baring Private Equity Partners, thwarting a hostile bid by crosstown Bengaluru rival Embassy Group. The promoters of RMZ — billionaire brothers Raj and Manoj Menda — purchased 45 per ce
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Market Now: PSU bank stocks rise; SBI, PNB gain over 1%
NEW DELHI: Majority of PSU bank stocks were trading with gains during the early trade on Tuesday.

The Nifty PSU Bank index was trading 1.18 per cent up at 2,952 around 10:15 am (IST).

Bank of India (up 1.90 per cent) was the top gainer in the Nifty PSU Bank index, followed by State Bank of India (up 1.33 per cent), Union Bank of India (up 1.22

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NEW DELHI: The hottest stock on Dalal Street’s radar today may not be the best ‘buy’ opportunity for you. It’s better to stay with stocks where the consensus has turned neutral to positive.

This has held true for the BSE100 stocks for the past decade, and it held true for the March quarter too. But why

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Market Now: Oil stocks down; HPCL, RIL, ONGC slip over 1%
NEW DELHI: Oil - gas stocks HPCL (down 1.41 per cent), GAIL (India) (down 1.10 per cent), Reliance Industries (down 1.08 per cent) and ONGC (down 1.07 per cent) declined over 1 per cent during Monday's trade.

The BSE Oil - Gas index was trading 0.82 per cent down at 14,546 around 12:55 pm (IST).

Shares of Castrol India (down 0.78 per

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Trading of priority sector loan grows, securitisation volume shrinks
KOLKATA: Indian banks shun securitisation of loans to meet priority sector targets in favour of Priority Sector Lending Certificates (PSLC), data from rating firm ICRA showed.

The volume of PSLC market leapfrogged to around Rs 1.84 lakh crore in FY18 from mere Rs 50,000 crore in FY2017, diminishing the reliance of securitisation market and

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NEW DELHI: The hottest stock on Dalal Street’s radar today may not be the best ‘buy’ opportunity for you. It’s better to stay with stocks where the consensus has turned neutral to positive.

This has held true for the BSE100 stocks for the past decade, and it held true for the March quarter too. But why

Investment thesis of the most popular stocks

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Tata Motors cracks 4% on poor JLR sales
NEW DELHI: Shares of Tata Motors cracked over 4 per cent in Monday's trade amid weakening demand for subsidiary JLR. Investor sentiment dampened on fresh reports suggesting jobs and production cuts at two of JLR’s British factories.

Jaguar Land Rover will cut around 1,000 jobs and production at two of its English factories due to fall in sales

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IMD's normal monsoon forecast could put life back in agri-linked stocks
NEW DELHI: Then Skymet and now, IMD. India is going to have a normal monsoon this year. And that's official.

In its forecast released today, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said it expects monsoon rains to hit Kerala coast by May 15 and projected a normal monsoon for the third year in a row. The weather department sees monsoon at 97 per

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European shares steady after US-led strike on Syria; WPP falls
MILAN: European shares steadied near 4-week highs on Monday as investors expected there would be no immediate escalation in Syria following the weekend's US-led strike.

The pan-regional STOXX 600 index was down 0.05 per cent by 0715 GMT, while other European benchmarks were also little changed. Euronext said price levels for the CAC and other

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ET Intelligence Group : Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), the engine that keeps Tata Motors going, is showing signs of sputtering in key overseas markets, and that’s unlikely to prompt an earnings upgrade estimate for the company in a hurry.

In the past three months, the Tata Motors stock has lost about 20 per cent. With JLR still to regain its lustre and

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NEW DELHI: Geopolitical tensions could not scare investors on Dalal Street on Monday, as the bulls scripted a solid rebound. After opening nearly 300 points down, the headline indices slowly and gradually climbed up to settle with respectable gains.

The S-P BSE Sensex added 113 points to end the session at 34,305, while NSE's Nifty50 closed 48

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Market Now: Britannia, ITC, Dabur keep Nifty FMCG index up
NEW DELHI: Gains in Britannia Industries (up 2.38 per cent), ITC (up 1.36 per cent) and Dabur India (up 0.97 per cent) were keeping the Nifty FMCG index up during Monday's trade.

The Nifty FMCG index was trading 0.90 per cent up at 27,226 around 01:45 pm (IST).

Shares of Marico (up 0.89 per cent), Godrej Consumer Products (up 0.87 per cent),

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Top intraday trading ideas for afternoon trade for Monday, 16 April 2018
NEW DELHI: The Nifty50 index was trading 22 points down at 10,458 around 11:30 am (IST) on Monday tracking weak global cues.

ETMarkets.com collated a list of trading ideas from various experts and here's what they had recommended for today's afternoon trade:

Kunal Bothra, independent market expertMCX is a 'Buy' call with a target price of Rs 798

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Tech view: Nifty forms bullish Marubozu, shows positive bias
NEW DELHI: After resting the sub-10,400 level, the Nifty50 on Monday made a smart rebound from the day’s low point to end above the 10,500 level. The index made a strong bullish candle on the daily chart which resembled a bullish Marubozu candle, with virtually no upper or lower wick.

Experts believe the decisive breach of short-term moving

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Market Now: Nifty IT index in the red; Infosys top drag
NEW DELHI: The Nifty IT index was trading 0.36 per cent down at 13,212 around 01:25 pm (IST) dragged by the index heavyweight Infosys (down 3.33 per cent).

Shares of Infosys fell as the company lowered its margin guidance to 22-24 per cent for FY19 from 23-25 per cent in FY18. The company gave FY19 revenue guidance of 6-8 per cent in constant

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Fortis stock slumps 2% after IHH flags logjam
Fortis Healthcare declined for the second straight day on Monday after Malaysia's IHH Healthcare said Fortis has declined to engage with the company on a takeover offer citing binding agreements with other parties.

The scrip was trading 1.94 per cent down at Rs 149 at around 11.05 am (IST). It opened at Rs 151.40 and touched high and low of Rs

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Infosys is changing again! Digital push may come at a price, but can do it good
By Aurobindo Das

India’s second-largest software firm is switching lanes. It’s making a push for a higher digital play. But there is a price to pay – that is, margin.

The IT major’s March quarter earnings played out on expected lines. But going by new CEO Salil Parekh’s future strategy, one thing is unmistakably clear – digital is the way to go and

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UCO Bank tanks to 12 year low amid fraud allegations
NEW DELHI: Shares of state-run lender UCO Bank nosedived 18 per cent to hit its lowest since August 30, 2006.

The CBI on Saturday booked former UCO Bank CMD Arun Kaul and others for allegedly cheating the bank to the tune of Rs 621 crore. The agency is carrying out searches at 10 locations-- eight of them in Delhi and two in Mumbai -- in this

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Market Now: Over 25 stocks hit fresh 52-week lows on NSE
NEW DELHI: Over 25 stocks including ABB India, Dhampur Sugar Mills, Educomp Solutions and Idea Cellular hit fresh 52-week lows on NSE during Monday's trade.

Stocks such as Jaypee Infratech, Lakshmi Vilas Bank, SRS, Talwalkars Better Value Fitness, UCO Bank and Vakrangee also figured among the stocks that hit fresh 52-week lows on NSE today.

On the

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F O: Nifty forms higher high for 11th session, shows more upside
By Chandan Taparia

The Nifty50 index opened with a gap down, but witnessed sustained buying interest throughout the session on Monday before settling near the day’s high. The index recovered sharply from the 10,396 level and formed a bullish Marubozu candle on the daily scale, which implies complete dominance by the bulls.

The 50-pack has been

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Nikkei up slightly, defensive shares shine as trade war worries, Syria in focus
TOKYO: Japanese stocks rose modestly on Monday on relief that US-led strikes on Syria appeared to be a one-off event though lingering concerns about a trade war had investors flocking to defensive shares.

"Assuming that it was a one-off attack and there will be no additional strikes, I think Tokyo market reaction will be limited. It was within

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MUMBAI: Higher provisions due to rising non-performing assets, losses on account of marked-to-market investments in government securities and uncertainty on leadership will weigh on banks as they set to report fourth-quarter results.

Analysts expect net profits of large banks to fall as elevated provisions continue to take a toll.

“Results for all

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Sensex ends 113 points higher, Nifty above 10,500; Tata Motors tanks 5%
NEW DELHI: Key equity indices Nifty50 and Sensex extended their gains for the eighth consecutive session on Monday, the longest winning streak since November 2017, buoyed by gains in the select bank, financial, FMCG, IT and auto stocks.

While global cues remained mixed in the light of Syria crisis, domestic market chose to remain positive amid

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Australia shares end slightly firmer as miners support; NZ slips
Australian shares pared earlier gains to finish 0.2 per cent higher on Monday, with strength in miners countered by a fall in Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

The S-P/ASX 200 index rose 12.2 points to 5,841.3 at the close of trade after rising as much as 0.7 per cent earlier on relief that the fallout from US-led strikes on Syria over the

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FPIs are fleeing once most banked upon sector as VUCA is at play
NEW DELHI: Foreign institutional investors’ behaviour on Dalal Street in recent times has had one common denominator – VUCA. And this has been m ore prominent on the PSU bank counter than anywhere else.

VUCA is an acronym for four factors –volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.

A Rs 13,000 crore loan scam in public sector lender Punjab

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Market Now: Realty stocks rise; IB Real Estate zooms 7%
NEW DELHI: Buoyed by gains in Indiabulls Real Estate (up 6.67 per cent), Prestige Estates Projects (up 2.10 per cent) and DLF (up 1.83 per cent), Nifty Realty index climbed almost 2 per cent during Monday's trade.

The Nifty Realty index was trading 1.53 per cent up at 306 around 02:35 pm (IST).

Shares of Oberoi Realty (up 1.03 per cent), Housing

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Market Now: Pharma stocks trade up; Cipla zooms over 4%
NEW DELHI: Majority of pharma stocks were trading with gains during afternoon trade on Monday, giving a fillip to the sectoral index.

The Nifty Pharma index was trading 1.3 per cent up at 8,845 around 01:10 pm (IST).

Cipla (up 4.15 per cent) was the top gainer of the pack, followed by Divi's Laboratories (up 1.78 per cent), Lupin (up 1.69 per

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Talking stock: Sell IDBI Bank; hold Sun Pharma
By G Chokkalingam

I have been holding 1,400 shares of IDBI Bank at Rs 112 since 3.5 years. Please advise what to do with them —ANUP LASKARFundamentally it is a sell as IDBI has created some records which are detrimental to the shareholders. Its net NPA at 16 per cent is the highest in the industry and advances de-grew by 16 per cent year-on-year

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