Saturday, 5 March 2016

Market Brief for 8th March 2016

Markets on the backdrop of Union Budget 2016 rebounded sharply during last week to finish the week on robust note, up above almost 7 percent. This was one of the highest weekly gains since past many years. The rally was mainly led by banking stocks and battered down metal stocks. The Union Budget, although was a neutral budget, but it projected a fiscal deficit target of 3.5 percent as a part of fiscal consolidation, and announcement of INR 25,000 crores infusion of capital to give flip to banking sector stocks, as well as talks about merging PSU banks gave a boost to the banking stocks. Moreover the firm metal prices globally saw improvement in the metal stocks. One more point which went in the favour of the markets were the strong rumours, that of increase in capital gains tax on investment in the markets, which eventually did not happen, and markets took the news cheerfully.  Although the markets gave a smart recovery, the worst is still not behind us. It needs to be seen whether RBI reduces the interest rate, how the forthcoming quarterly results of companies turn out to be, and how the monsoon factor plays out. Global economic markets will also be watched closely.



Technically, the markets being oversold and having maintained the support of 6960, recovered sharply on the back of bear covering and in anticipation of better things to come. Where levels are concerned, the market is poised against the key resistance of 7600, and likely to react from thereon to test lower levels. On the lower side, there are multiple supports right from 7200 to 7400. As long as the markets are above 7200, it is in the firm hands of the Bulls, and markets are likely to see higher levels in times to come. The broader term range for the market is 7200 to 7600, and the short term range is between 7300 and 7500.     


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Tuesday, 1 March 2016

Budget 2016-2017: Six key effects on the common man's wallet

In a Union Budget that clearly indicated a shift in focus to the rural economy, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley introduced a slew of taxes and cess to be imposed on services to help rural welfare programmes. 

 Islami Tijara takes a look at some of the highlights from the tax proposals in the Union Budget 2016-17.

1.      Income tax remains unchanged
Income tax slabs for the financial year 2016-17 has remained unchanged, the finance minister announced in the Parliament today.  


2.      House rent allowance cheer
Jaitley said that the tax exemption for house rent allowance will be raised to Rs 60,000 from the current Rs 24,000-level. The move is likely to bring in relief to the common man.

3.      Service tax
The government, in the Union Budget for 2016-17, decided to keep service tax rates unchanged at 14.5% (14% service tax + 0.5% Swacch Bharat Cess) Certain announcements also ensured there were some ‘taxing times’ ahead for the common man.

4.      Buying a car costlier now
An additional 1% tax on luxury cars above Rs 10 lakh was imposed by the Centre in the Union Budget today. The Centre also imposed an additional infrastructure cess of 1% on small petrol cars and a 2.5% cess on diesel cars. 

5.      Krishi Kalyan Tax
Jaitley announced a 5% tax on all taxable services under the Krishi Kalyan tax in a bid to benefit the farming community.

6.      Cigarettes to cost more
Excise duties on various tobacco products other than beedi have been raised by about 10 to 15%, Jaitley said in the Parliament. 


Friday, 19 February 2016

Market Brief for 22nd Feb 2016

Amid stock specific moves, markets ended the week on a robust note, perhaps, one of the best weekly close from quite some time, with gains of almost 3 percent. However, none of the sector acquired leadership and it was all very stock specific. On the macro front, crude prices appear to be stabilising around these levels and global equity markets have also managed to regain some ground. Markets are still in a jittery mode, with lot of events lined up like the Union budget, policy reform implementation, US data, geo-political scenarios, oil demands, and Chinese market recovery are some of the factors markets will watch very closely. Since the undertone for the market is bearish, any bad news will crash down the markets and good news flows would help the market to sustain the existing levels, and in that case, markets would at best remain range bound. It appears that only in the third and the fourth quarter will the market firm up, and will be susceptible to falls. 



Technically too, market looks weak and vulnerable, though 7000 on the Nifty offers a good support, a close below this level, markets would witness a renewed selling and perhaps would test 6650 levels. On the higher side, markets in terms of Nifty would face stiff resistances between 7300 and 7500. Though a test of 7500 on the Nifty is not ruled out, but all this would be a throwback rally on the backdrop of mighty fall. The short term range one would look out for is between 7000 and 7400, and the markets are exactly on the median point.

Investors should show some courage and exit from fundamentally and technically weak stocks in rallies even if one is incurring some losses, and at the same time shift into fundamentally strong stocks with good management and that are more domestic led. This is a good portfolio restructuring time.   


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Sunday, 7 February 2016

Market Brief – 8th Feb 2016

Across the board, mixed news flows kept the market volatile last week which ended the week marginally lower, however, Friday, for the day it closed on robust note. Prevailing uncertainty will keep the markets volatile and jittery during this month with a negative bias. Some glimpses of hope were seen in the form of announcement by the RBI Deputy Governor, taking measures to improve cap-ex in infrastructure, finance ministry is still very hopeful on GST getting cleared in the coming session of Parliament, lately some good results declared by corporate, and crude off late, showing some traction getting stabilised giving some hope for markets to make a bull case. 



Although, there are some positives but it really needs to be seen how the implementation of 7th Pay Commission and the Union Budget events unfold and. However, if the above mentioned positives fail to deliver, since the undertone of the market is bearish, markets can very easily witness sharp falls.



Technically market too is poised to take out a sharp rally or may witness spiky slide. In terms of levels on nifty a close below 7350 would see a retest of this year’s low of 7240 if broken then a capitulation will take the markets way down to 6700 to 6800 the ultimate support for bulls to be hopeful in the long term, on the other hand if the Nifty manages to surpass 7610 and then 7725 on close basis that seems a bit difficult than we could perhaps conclude that the worst is over for the markets. So in the short term one needs to watch out 7350 on the lower side and 7725 on the higher side both on close basis.


We once again reiterate and advice investor’s fraternity to show some resilience and invest at regular intervals in growth stocks particularly those, which are having least debt leverage and are well governed.


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Thursday, 4 February 2016

Hexaware Technologies Ltd – Quarterly result December 31, 2015



The Audited Standalone results for the Quarter ended December 31, 2015:

The Company has posted a net profit of Rs. 809.574 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2015 as compared to Rs. 767.792 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2014. Total Income has increased from Rs. 3063.276 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2014 to Rs. 3332.876 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2015.

The Audited Standalone results for the Year ended December 31, 2015:

The Company has posted a net profit of Rs. 3329.719 million for the year ended December 31, 2015 as compared to Rs. 3183.943 million for the year ended December 31, 2014. Total Income has increased from Rs. 11844.468 million for the year ended December 31, 2014 to Rs. 13112.862 million for the year ended December 31, 2015.

 

The Consolidated Results are as follows:

The Audited Consolidated results for the Quarter ended December 31, 2015

The Group has posted a net profit after tax of Rs. 993.613 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2015 as compared to Rs. 872.593 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2014. Total Income has increased from Rs. 7007.654 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2014 to Rs. 8282.491 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2015.

The Audited Consolidated results for the Year ended December 31, 2015

The Group has posted a net profit after tax of Rs. 3932.113 million for the year ended December 31, 2015 as compared to Rs. 3201.516 million for the year ended December 31, 2014. Total Income has increased from Rs. 25736.693 million for the year ended December 31, 2014 to Rs. 31406.803 million for the year ended December 31, 2015.

Shariah Compliant Status – Compliant (Midcap/Info. Tech.)
Debt to M.Cap – 0%
Recv. to M.Cap – 4%
Cash to M.Cap – 1%
Int. Income to Total Income – 0%


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