Sanjiv Bhasin, Director, IIFL Securities, says the broader market will be in a consolidation phase. So pick your stocks. Right now, PSUs, OMCs, ONGC, Hind Copper, Vedanta, the metal/OMC space are looking very strong, as is insurance. That is where you should be upping your ante.” Bhasin further says: “Do a SIP in HDFC, Asian … Read more
India’s first automobile in-plant railway siding project (of Maruti Suzuki) was inaugurated by PM Modi in Gujarat on March 12. The project is at Hansalpur in Gujarat’s Mehsana district. Under the project, Maruti will increase the use of railways for dispatching finished cars from 26% to 40% annually, saving 50,000 truck trips, 35 million litres … Read more
Sandip Sabharwal, asksandipsabharwal.com, says all the large group stocks have already done quite well. Look at the Tatas, the Mahindra Group, Adanis or Reliance. It is tough to pick out a group at this stage. The main thing is that if the economy can sustain 7-8% growth over the next few years, my guess is … Read more
Gagan Banga, VC & MD, Indiabulls Housing Finance, says: “We have now reached a stage where over the last four to six quarters, we stabilised the overall business, scaled up the retail disbursals and whatever are the targeted segments for growth, the disbursals around that are coming along at a good pace. At this point … Read more
Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Group Chairman, Inditrade Capital, says “there is a strong speculation that Tata Sons will get listed in the near future and the best way to play that will be probably through Tata Chemicals; that is the conventional thinking in the market and that led to this kind of massive rise in the share … Read more
As of now gold looks technically overbought, we advise investors to wait for correction, $2,100 and $2,088 is a good level to enter for higher targets, Jigar Pandit, Vice President at Sharekhan by BNP Paribas tells ETMarkets. He remains intact with a long term target of $2,400 for 2024. Gold seems to have found its … Read more
AK Purwar, Chairman & Independent Director, IIFL Finance, says RBI pointed out certain gaps in our systems. Let me put it that the gold loan business which we are having, the practices, systems, processes is all as per present industry standards and present industry norms. RBI suggested certain changes which we have in a way … Read more
PN Vasudevan, MD & CEO, Equitas Small Finance Bank, says “NPA has moved up from 2.21% to 2.39% in the third quarter. By and large, NPA is fairly under control and the third quarter typically for us is a seasonally weak quarter from collections because in most of South India, we get the heaviest rains … Read more
Aravind Maiya, CEO, Embassy REIT, says “for FY24, we have given a guidance where the NOI will be in excess of Rs 3,000 crore and from there it will grow. But in terms of cities, if you look at India and commercial real estate, there are broadly six cities – Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, NCR plus … Read more
Viren Prasad Shetty, Executive VC, Narayana Health, says: “Is the larger goal to make healthcare more affordable, then price cap does not achieve it because what happens right now in a dynamic pricing situation where you have multiple price points for multiple classes of people. You have very poor people below the poverty line who … Read more
