Sundaram Capital Protection Oriented Fund (3 Years) – Series 7‏

Sundaram Capital Protection Oriented Fund – Series 7–This is a close ended fund which seeks to protect your capital by investing predominantly in high quality fixed income securities maturing in line with the maturity of the scheme. It would also aim to generate capital appreciation by investing some amount in equities. The tenure of the fund is 3 years.

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Dollars to Rupees

Dollars to Rupees exchanges have been going up for sometime now. From a level of 44 rupee has fallen to a level more above 52 against US Dollars in the last few months. Dollars to rupees exchange is very critical for Indians. A weak rupee indicates slow down in economy and therefore investors especially foreign investors are withdrawing their funds from Indian Stock Market.

Dollars to Rupees is also important because a high dollar at time may encourage foreign investors to put more dollars in Indian stock market as high currency rate may help them in getting more fund in Indian Rupees in India. But things are different at the moment. Inflation is high, news of scams and controversies are more often than ever before and there are clear visible sign of slow down in short term in Indian Economy.

Dollars to Rupees exchange rate depend upon lot of factor but at the moment reason seems to be the instability in the global economy and investor’s trust in Dollars. Investors across the globe are pumping their money in Dollar and withdrawing funds from emerging economies like India. USDINR conversion touches many lives in India. Stock market have fallen more than 500 points in one day and this is going to further damage the investors sentiment.

But everyone is not at received end, NRIs who sends billion of dollars every year, are happy to get high conversion rate. Rupee touched a record of 52.73 on Tuesday. Experts believe the current trend to stay for some more time and there are few analyst who are indicating that Rupee may even touch levels of 55. Exporters are having good time because they are currently getting high conversion rates on their earned dollars and other major foreign currencies.

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Crude Oil Price

Crude oil price has been trading in a narrow range. It was trading at $116.32 in the month of April 2011 and then it slipped to $100.46 in the month of August, 2011. Since then it Crude oil price has been moving in this narrow range and currently crude oil price is $ 99.92. Oil market has been in lot of buzz in the last few months with the oil prediction that there might be some scarcity in the future. Most of the oil price forecasts are indicating a rise in oil prices.

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Kingfisher airline

There has been lot of news about Kingfisher airlines in last few weeks. Or rather we can say that there is lot of negative news about Kingfisher airlines. Kingfisher airline has been going through lot of turmoil and at a moment, there were speculation of this airline going down. Kingfisher airlines which are considered as one of the best airlines in India is currently facing severe fund crunch and debt are creating huge problems for the company. They have to cancel many flights to sustain themselves.

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Good Stock-Sun Pharma

Sun Pharma is a good stock to buy in the current market conditions. Moving forward from our last post on Cipla and pharma sector stock, Sun pharma is our next good stock to buy in long term. Sun Pharma is one of the biggest pharmaceutical company in India and it has got very good presence in overseas markets. It’s acquisition of Taro has also boosted its business in overseas markets. Taro has given very good results in last few quarters and remains very strong subsidiary of Sun Pharma to give good numbers.

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Cipla stock review

Pharmaceutical sector is one of the safest sectors to be in turbulent market conditions. It outperformed the most of the sectors in 2008 and there won’t be any deal, if it happens again. One of the biggest reasons behind is their market which is quite insulated to current market factors like inflation, interest rates and instable political situation.

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