Rajesh Ranjan

Equity investing amidst INR depreciation

Companies with considerable export revenue are relatively better bet when INR depreciates. Indian currency (INR) has been weakening since more than a year but it has been more so in last couple of months. Since,...

Which sector to invest in jittery market?

Short term prospect of the Indian equity market appears to be jittery given slowing economic growth, stubborn inflation, declining rupee, high interest rate environment, political uncertainty in view of upcoming general election in 2014 and...

Knowing India VIX Index

I find myself in a lot of conversations about finance with my wife, a home maker. My chosen profession revolves around financial market and so is my chosen passion “writing on MarketExpress”. My wife allows...

Socially responsible investing in India

Socially responsible investment (SRI) has been creating waves in the sea of global investment since last couple of years. It has been more so in recent years when crisis has become normal phenomena and natural...

Manila set to replace “Jeepney”

Global financial media has been buzzing with positive news flow on The Philippines since more than a year. While India is struggling with slowing growth and threat of rating downgrade (due to budget deficit), China...

Making Sense of NSE indices

One of my favorite pastimes these days has been spending time on NSE website in an effort to understand stock market performance. In my view, investors, like me, should also make this a hobby to...

Stocks cheaper than their Book Value-Performance Review

In our article Bargain Hunting: Stocks cheaper than their Book Value, we had indicated certain stocks as a better bet compared to others following simple strategy of Bargain Hunting on the basis of relatively lower...

Bargain Hunting: Stocks cheaper than their Book Value

Value investing, one of the stock picking method, talks about picking stocks trading below their inherent worth. Basically this method is by its very nature a conservative approach to pick up stock wherein we focus...