The Sensex has retracted from its peak of around 21000, touched lows in the 7600-8000 range and is presently trading in a close range of 9000 in the last few months. Still the crucial question on every investor’s mind remains: “Whether the time has come to start investing again in order to reap the benefits of early bird investing?” But some questions still remain unanswered: Has the market bottomed out yet? Should we wait for some more time before taking a final …

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Aren’t sure where to put your money now? The new Fidelity WealthBuilder Fund could be a sensible way to invest for your future. I have put together the key points of the fund below…

The NFO closes February 5, 2009. The Fidelity WealthBuilder Fund is a balance of sensible risk with growth potential. Three plans offer varying levels of exposure to debt and equity, helping you benefit from possible upsides in the bond market as well as the stock market.

WHAT’S YOUR …

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Q3FY2009 seems to be a bad quarter for most media companies as the rate of the yoy growth tapers off substantially in the wake of a significant cut in the advertising spends in the key sectors, such as BFSI, real estate and automobiles. Also, a general sense of rational advertisement spend and fragmentation across media verticals due to an increase in competition would lead to a slower revenue growth. The Hindi general entertainment channel space continues to witness hefty competition with …

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Safety First is the basis of the Fidelity Flexi Gilt Fund, which invests in ‘no default risk’ government securities across short, medium and long maturities. Here are some very sound reasons why it should be a part of your portfolio:

Zero Default Risk: There are no repayment issues with government securities - no risk to your capital, no risk to interest payments.

Liquidity: As the fund is open-ended, units for purchase and redemption are offered at the applicable NAV on an ongoing …

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Insurance companies have struck pay dirt with a new client — Bollywood films, whose premiums are steadily fattening their bank balance. What was earlier an afterthought, with film-makers running for cover only at the nth hour, is now becoming an extremely lucrative business for insurance companies, with film companies opting for not one or two but four different policies on each film. As reported in manor newspapers last year, ’politics’, ‘public sentiment’ and ‘last-minute legal wrangles’ have made it mandatory for Bollywood …

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After an outperformance in Q2FY2009, the Capital Goods sector underperformed the broader markets in Q3FY2009 amidst growing concerns of slowdown in order inflows and liquidity crunch. The Q3 saw the capital goods index underperform the benchmark index as the BSE Capital Goods index declined by 34.8% as against a 26.1% decline witnessed by BSE Sensex. The capital goods index in the monthly index of industrial production numbers continued to be volatile, as it rose by 3.1% in October 2008. The …

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Black Gold (i.e. Oil) has lost its sheen, and how! Today, the cost of a litre of petrol or diesel for Indian oil majors is less than the price of a bottle of packaged water. Back-of-the-envelope calculations show that a litre of petrol costs about Rs 11 and diesel about Rs 14, excluding transportation and sundry other charges. By contrast, a one-litre bottle of water costs between Rs 12-15. 

Here’s how the arithmetic goes. A barrel of crude oil contains about …

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