Indian Indices Hit Record High; Its Raining Money

Insance Foreign Institutional Investors are pouring money into Dalal Street as if their is no tomorrow. The Indian Indices BSE SENSEX and NSE Nifty have hit a record high. Currently the SENSEX is up whopping 800 points at 18,293.

It took 8 trading sessions for the Sensex to reach 18,000 from 17,000 after it had first hit 17,000 on 26 September 2007. It had taken just 5 trading sessions to reach 17,000 from 16,000

In a separate development, Ansal Properties & Infrastructure has successfully diversified in the new business of power by establishing & commissioning wind mills with a capacity of 12 MW, at Kutch, Gujarat.

ICICI Bank Retail Expansion – BUY

Just a while ago ICICI bank (ICBK) received permission from the Reserve Bank of India to add 400 branches and 2500 ATMs to its current network of 950 branches and 3500 ATMs.

Deposit mix has been inferior to peers among new banks with the proportion of savings bank deposits being about half the average of its peers. This seems to correlate with the slow expansion of branches. At end of March 2007 only 12.5% of the aggregate deposits of ICICI Bank were low-cost savings bank deposits. This proportion changed very little after FY2003 and was substantially below that of peers such as HDFC Bank and Axis Bank. In the four year period ended March 2007 the CAGR in ICICI’s branches was only 14% compared with 31% for the other two.

ICICI Bank is expected to report a fully diluted EPS of Rs 35.54 and 45.15 for FY08 and FY09 respectively.

Fund Manager Recommendations on ICICI Bank:
Sharekhan has a Price Target of Rs 1,175 with a BUY recommendation.
HSBC Has a price Target of Rs 1,084 with NEUTRAL recommendation.

Kavveri Telecom acquires Til-Tek and DCI

Kaveri Telecom Products has acquired Til-Tek and DCI, two US companies during the last one year. Til-Tek is a leader in antennas and DCI in RF products and filters. The company has now acquired technology, intellectual property rights (IPR) and patents for base station antennas of erstwhile Sigma wireless, Ireland from PCTEL, Chicago, USA. With this acquisition, the company now has the capability to manufacture base station antennas incorporating the latest technologies on par with the best in the world. Both Indian and global customers would be addressed by the company in this area. This acquisition also gives the company access to customers and vendors of Sigma wireless in Europe. The acquisition also brings into the company’s fold seven international patents.

The company is poised for a 100% growth over last year and has already started building infrastructure in line with the projected growth over the next three years.

IVRCL + Petron Engineering Orders

IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects has bagged lift irrigation works of the value of Rs 761.24 crore of handri niva sujala shravanthi (HNSS) project main canal for stage II of phase 1 in Kurnool and Anantapur Districts of Andhra Pradesh, on EPC turkey basis which includes investigation, design, manufacture, supply of pumps, motors and pressure mains at site of work including erection, commissioning and testing 8 numbers at each pumping station of hydro-mechanical, electro-mechanical and other accessories etc. complete equipment required and maintenance of 12 pumps at each pumping station and the system for 15 years, awarded by Government of Andhra Pradesh, irrigation & CAD department

Petron Engineering bagged a Rs 1.33-crore contract from Vedanta Alumina for installation of anode, grouping & cleaning system for its aluminium smelter project at Jharsuguda, Orissa. It had also secured a Rs 127-crore contract for supply of fired heaters for the Bina Refinery project being developed by Bharat Oman Refineries (a company promoted by Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Oman Oil Company).

L&T bags Rs 693 crore order from Indian Oil

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) minutes ago announced that Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) has awarded to the company, a large project order comprising two trains of 300 tonnes per day sulphur recovery units (EPCC – 5) along with associated facilities such as amine regeneration unit sour water stripper & tail gas treatment unit for enhanced sulfur recovery up to 99.9%. This would enable IOCL in the production of low sulphur clean fuels to meet regulatory requirements. The order is valued at Rs 693 crore.

IOCL which operates one of its biggest refineries located at Koyali on the outskirts at Vadodara city in the State of Gujarat, India, intends to set up these sulphur recovery plants as part of their fuels Upgradation project and have awarded the order on EPC basis to the company. Toyo Engineering India has been retained by IOCL to provide services for project management consultancy (PMC) and Black & Veatch (USA) are the process licensors.

Trading Ideas for the Day

Here are some Trading Ideas for the day – Oct-9th

Triveni Engg – Trading in a falling channel.
Sell below 97
Stop Loss: 98
Target: 89.50 / 83 / lower

RNRL – Ambani is falling
Sell Below Rs 85
Stop Loss Rs 86
Target Rs 80.50 / 78 / Lower

Omaxe Ltd – Fails to recover
Sell Below Rs 312
Stop Loss Rs 314
Target 298 / 288 / Lower

Start booking partial profits on achieving first / second target.

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