Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 42.75 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 3,67,606.45 crore.

Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 42.75 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 3,67,606.45 crore.

In the coming session, a decisive move below Friday’s session low of 10,601.60 could open gates for the level of 10,560, followed by 10,500 while, on the upside, immediate resistance is seen at 10,650, followed 10,680. Stocks in the news: Larsen and Toubro, Bodal Chemicals, Smartlink Holdings, Infosys, PC Jeweller, Cadila Healthcare, Fortis Healthcare and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals. 

Indian benchmark indices are likely to make a mildly positive start. The SGX Nifty is indicating that Nifty may open marginally higher by 19 points at 10,686.   

If you think that all equity mutual funds are the same and one equity fund is no different from the other, think again! There is a wide spectrum of equity mutual funds that cater to different categories of investors having different kinds of financial goals, return expectations and risk appetites.

The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has increased the cap on equity investment for private sector subscribers under ‘active’ choice from the current 50 to 75 per cent. 

All investors make mistakes while investing in stocks and mutual funds, so if any investor claims that he has never made any mistake, he is definitely not an investor. 

Let us try to understand why bond prices are inversely related to interest rates with examples.

We all have our own biases, blinkers and filters through which we see the world at large and become judgemental about people, events, policies of the government, and everything else, including the stock markets.

Tractor sales are expected to witness an increase of 8-10 per cent in FY19, according to  Shubhabrata Saha, chief of operations (farm equipment division) of Mahindra & Mahindra.