On the whole expect a very treacherous markets as the price levels could be driven purely by the technical play between bulls and bears as the new trend is established, cautions Sonali Ranade
The midcap space in the US is red hot. The Russel 200 Index that represents 2000 names in the US midcap space closed the week at 905.24. Recall, the same index topped at 856 in the bull market that ended in 2007. So in fact the midcap index has already made a new high some 5.7 pc over the 2007 peak, says Sonali Ranade
Spend time accumulating good blue chips that indicate that prices have bottomed out, says Sonali Ranade
We are pretty much towards the end of a bear market in terms of wave counts and these are times to accumulate blue chips, not sell, says Sonali Ranade
Lo and behold the UPA magic. The share of the poor, in whose name all subsidy is created by liberal bleeding hearts, has shrunk from a little under half to just about one-third, write Sonali Ranade and Shaelja Sharma
The key to fighting Maoists lies in isolating them in urban areas and containing them in forested areas, says Sonali Ranade
These are times to buy as prices crash; at your own pace, at your prices, says Sonali Ranade
A look at the pictures.
As politicians dismantle the levers of power, whether it is subsidies, allotment of land or spectrum, etc, they fear the prospect of losing the power of patronage much more than the power to extract rents therefrom, says Sonali Ranade
As expected, the government did not move in time to grab the fleeting opportunity for POL sector reforms, writes Sonali Ranade in her weekly Market Notes
For now the probability of the tradable rally remains very low, says Sonali Ranade
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All the opportunities available to China were also open to us. The need is for the government to set up the right incentives to make those opportunities profitable for the private sector, the rest will follow, says Sonali Ranade
What can be said with certainty is that the changes that are necessary to the present mode of living will not be possible without the aid of religion or something like it, says Sonali Ranade
What can be said with certainty is that the changes that are necessary to the present mode of living will not be possible without the aid of religion or something like it, says Sonali Ranade
That the justice system, of which the police are a part, does not work for rape or other victims is no accident, writes Sonali Ranade
The methods being used by the government to window-dress the fiscal deficit will fool no one, least of all foreign investors or bodies like the IMF, warns Sonali Ranade
Trinamool Congress Legislature party on Monday formally nominated party leaders Biman Banerjee and Sonali Guha for the posts of speaker and deputy speaker respectively in West Bengal assembly.
At a time when thousands of our farmers are sitting on the roads in bitterly cold December nights, protesting another policy measure that 'tightens the noose around their neck', ironically sold as 'beneficial' for them, it becomes all the more necessary for us to watch Gabhricha Paus to understand their problems better, says Utkarsh Mishra.
The actors around town are busy promoting their respective films, Bodyguard and Mere Brother Ki Dulhan.
The depreciating Indian rupee creates new opportunities.
The only response from the government so far has been a 20 pc devaluation of the Rupee by stealth. In a roundabout way, this is the price we must all pay for as a tax on wealth, says Sonali Ranade
When the doyenne of television decides to party, all her friends make it a point to attend.
The publishing house faced massive backlash online on Friday after an advertisement of the book launch on Saturday with Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kapil Mishra as a guest of honour did the rounds on social media.
We as a species are hitting global constraints imposed by Earth's ecological and bio-systems that we don't know how to mitigate or resolve as a species, says Sonali Ranade
The budget is evidence that we have no strategic plans to successfully compete in the evolving world. If this government were running a business, the board would fire it without a second thought, says Sonali Ranade
Rishi Kapoor passed into the ages on April 30.
Hockey India president Narinder Batra, however, strongly refuted the allegations, saying Gill's charges were 'baseless'.
Reader Sonali Aggarwal sends us a picture.
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Musings on the world market trends.
We have not yet internalised the need for reliability in our schema to emerge as an industrial society, says Sonali Ranade
'Life has been my greatest teacher.'
We are still in love with the idea of a strong rupee, not realising how much it hurts our poor people and the farmers, says Sonali Ranade
Here are brief details of the four cases against actor Salman Khan in Jodhpur.
