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In a bullish market many things change and one of them is the relationship between opportunity and challenges. The opportunity to make high return in short term of times is faced with challenge of finding the right stock which not only deliver return in short term but is also worth holding in portfolio for long term. This challenge emerges from the fact that valuations are at a higher level and a small negative news can damage prices much more and time wise correction can lead to returns turning much lower. The following stocks have come from Refinitiv’s Stock Report Plus which lists sto...

One set of companies which probably read the manifesto of political parties very carefully before any state elections are liquor companies. The reason is prohibition, a part of their election promises. If not they have a sigh of relief. But soon after elections, there is another headache which the liquor are reasonably sure that they would have to deal with is increase in the state taxes on liquor. Given the fact that every state is eager to raise its resources, a large number of times, liquor as a product is something which is low hanging fruit for raising revenue for the state. But despite a...

Financial sector stocks are the preferred pick of institutional investors. The reason, some of them can also act as a proxy for GDP growth. After a gap of two months, September and October, FPI have been net buyers in the month of November and till date in December. After a phase of under performance, there are first signs of some of them making a comeback attempt. We take a look at stocks from this sector where one valuation matrix meets the criteria for investing for the long term.

There is sunshine all around, better than expected GDP numbers, further decline in oil prices, falling US bond yields and clear indication from RBI that it is in no mood to increase interest rates any further. So while macros are bullish and could not get better, it is time to spend some time in understanding what stocks are you buying and why that stock at this point of time only. Also if one is thinking about increasing the exposure it would be better to stay with large caps as they would be able to weather any storm which might emerge due to any reason.

One piece of news is that the Chinese companies are increasing production of just one particular chemical and a stock of an agro chemical industry tanks for two straight sessions. This shows extreme sensitivity of both the market and stock prices to what is happening in China's chemical space. While it would be wrong to say that this will go away, over the long term there is a possibility that some segment in the chemical space will be able to delink and become less sensitive as more backward integration happens in that space. While they come under the broad umbrella word of “Chemical s...