Is this the beginning of bearish phase!? Nifty corrected 13.25% from an all time high of 11760.20 on August 28, 2018 to 10199.20 on October 08, 2018.  Sensex corrected 12.71% to 34032.25 from a high of 38989.65 on August 29, 2018.    All started on August 13, when the rupee breached the level of 70 against

The Most Comprehensive, Feature Rich and Intuitive Market Information, Analytics And Trading Platform Set Order Value in Preferences: Setting of default order quantity in the Order form is a commonly used user preference. We have now introduced preference setting for Order Value by which order quantity in the Order form will be calculated @ Order Value

Have mid caps bottomed out; is the standard question that most investors want to know. The answer is slightly more nuanced than the straight forward discrete answer that you will normally expect. Mid caps are going through a churn at four levels. Firstly, the dividends of cheap oil are no longer there for the asking

When DSP Mutual Fund received a redemption request from its corporate investors on the debt fund, the real reason was that the client was a tad worried. The fund has a large exposure to the bonds issued by IL&FS, both in the long duration and the short duration. A sharp fall in the NAVs due

If you open the bond markets page or the economy reports, the one concept you will often get to hear is that of Open Market Operations or OMOs in short. The government through the RBI intervenes in the money markets and bond markets in many ways. The main purpose is to maintain balance and stability

IL&FS is often being referred to as a shadow bank these days. That is not exactly a charitable definition. In China, Shadow banks refer to quasi banks that operate outside the financial system. IL&FS is not exactly outside the finance system in India because the RBI does regulate it as Critical Investment Company (CIS). Although

Further to our update dated 13/9/2018 with respect to the transfer of membership of commodity derivative business from M/s. Navia Commodities Broker P Limited(Transferor) to M/s. Navia Markets Limited(Transferee) we would like to inform that all client accounts and their positions as of 28thSeptember 2018 have been transferred to M/s. Navia Markets Ltd. Following are few points

Open any mutual fund website or the MF NAV page of the newspaper and you are likely to be grabbing attention towards a product called fixed maturity plans (FMPs). What exactly are these plans and how do they fit into your investment scheme of things. A Fixed Maturity Plan (FMP) is a closed-ended fund that

When bond yields go up, as they have gone up in the last 1 year, the impact is not just on the bond markets. Of course, your bond portfolio and your bond fund NAVs dot take a hit. But did you know that a rise in interest rates also hits the equity markets? Here is

What is the ideal holding period for your mutual funds? Obviously it will vary depending on whether it is an equity fund or a debt fund. For example, liquid funds will give roughly the same annualized return whether you hold it for a period of 15 days or 45 days or even 180 days. That