75 per-cent blue chips below 5-year PEs 5 Jan, 2016

Should investors can pick large-cap stocks over mid-caps at this juncture? More than 75 per-cent of the blue chips across sectors were trading below their 5-year average price-to-earnings (PE) ratios.

In comparison, around 55% of the mid-cap stocks are trading greater than their 5-year average PEs; which means, large-caps are cheaply as compared to small-caps.

Large-caps have been at the receiving side in the previous few months on account of foreign institutional selling, resulting in contracted valuations.

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Share market prediction for 2016 31 Dc, 2015

Previous Year 2015 saw Indian investors & traders move away from the trend of investing in physical assets such as real estate & gold said by Nilesh Shah, MD(managing director) of Kotak Mahindra Asset Management. Instead the focus was more on equities current year. He estimates this will continue in 2016 year as well.

Indian investors invested greater than Rs 65000 cr. in equity mutual funds in current year.

Year 2016 will be a more stock-specific year rather than a sector-specific one. Might be bullish on urban consumption on the back of the benefits that will accrue due to the implementation of 7th Pay Commission.

This year also saw a lot of USFDA problems for the Indian pharma sector. He said investors need to differentiate between companies that have superior quality track record. Shah has started accumulating pharma stocks that have started correcting on the back of event risks.

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Today mcx copper remains dominant 31 Dec, 2015

Copper futures ahead in the native market on yesterday as investors, traders and speculators booked fresh positions in the industrial metal amidst hopes that production cuts in China may decrease a supply glut.

In Accordance with media reports, nine leading Chinese copper producers have agreed to cut production of the base metal by an overall 200,000 metric tons in the January-March 2015 Q(quarter).

China is the world’s largest consumer of copper, accounting for more than 40 per-cent of the metal’s world wide consumption.

The focus is now on China’s official factory data set for release on last week Friday which may show that manufacturing shrank for a fifth straight in Dec month, highlighting weakness in the manufacturing sector of the world’s second biggest economy.

Copper may retreat today on profit-booking by investors, after the stellar gains in newely sessions, and ahead of this New Year.

MCX : February 2016 contract for Copper futures ended at Rs 318.4 per kg, up by 0.55 per-cent after opening at Rs 316.25, as compared to the previous ending price of Rs 316.65. It reached the intra-day high of Rs 318.85.

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