GOLD-A Safe Investment

Market cycles come and go, but gold has maintained its long term valueThe value of gold, in terms of real goods and services that it can buy, has remained remarkably stable. In contrast, the purchasing power of many currencies has generally declined.
Gold is among only a handful of financial assets that is not matched by a liability. It can provide 'insurance' against extreme movements on the value of traditional asset classes that can happen in unsettled times.
In fact, statistical analysis shows that over the past thirty years, the correlation between gold and the Dow Jones Industrial Average actually declined during the worst 30 months of the equity index – an indication that investors in gold had the protection they sought when they needed it the most.

Nowadays, gold certificates offer investors a method of holding gold without taking physical delivery. Issued by individual banks, particularly in countries like Germany and Switzerland, they confirm an individual's ownership while the bank holds the metal on the client's behalf. The client thus saves on storage and personal security issues, and gains liquidity in terms of being able to sell portions of the holdings (if need be) by simply telephoning the custodian.

Sachi in his 18 th Month

Sachi now walks very fast,say many new words as he is 18 months old .We bought a small book for him which he himself call "POOK". When we say go and take your book sachi ... he will go and take this POOK. he can identify some familiar animals, birds ,etc.Last week we took him to zoo...Ohh really he enjoyed that day very much.He walked,ran in the small road... sometimes will fall down..will get up ..with a cute smile.There he saw many animals but he said all are BOW BOW... (he thought of each animal being a dog) .. He can identify Duck , yalk, parrot,elephant,fish,girl ,boy,apple,ornage,cake etc on seeing them in the POOK.Then we bought one bat and ball for him, which he used to play sometimes.His father plays suttle daily...so he also wants a bat and ball for playing. His new fascination is water...he wants water eveytime....for playing,bathing,drinking.....His another fascination is browsing the albumn which contain his photos...and kissing his snaps...and saying "Chachi Umma" ....It is becoming difficult and difficult to feed him, that is the main problem .We sometimes give him Ragi,Banana powder as its good for them to have these atleast for 3 years.

Mid cap -Buzzer

All the best for the new year.Hope the coming year will be good for all.

The sensex and nifty in the year 2006 will make us to see new new life-time highs.Many experts are saying that the coming year is the year of autos . As everyone knows it was the third year of successive gains for Sensex. In 2005, the Sensex gained 42% and nifty 36%.Mny expers are saying that markets will move on the positive side in 2006 and will reach 10000 in a couple of months and 15000 in near future.The main sectors to watch are Auto,Logistics,Investment finance.The key point to note is that FIIs are attracted by the mid-cap stocks rather than the heavies now a days.So its sure that Mid cap index will see new and new highs in the coming year.That's to track and find the next infosys when it is affordable.The interesting thing to note is that midcap index has closed in new all time high for this year.Many mid cap stocks like geometric software , 3i infotech,NIIT,indraprasta gas,tvs motors,nicholas Piramal,Garden silks,Navneet publications etc aresome of the good Buys for the year 2006.
Automobile sector and infrastructure,construction sector will be growing for the next couple of years.So Its best to invest in these sectors in advance.Top picks of this sector are TVS MOTORS,M & M ,Bajaj Auto etc.But as per valuations Hero Honda is not a good buy for this year 2006.There wont be much appreciation on this stock.The short term target kept for TVS motors is abt 120 and medium term its 140 and for long term its 200.They are going to introduce a new bike into markets which will surely influence the stock.And for M&M as any of brokers will be saying a BUY recommendation.ITs target is 600-700 in near future.Bajaj auto has a mdium term target of 2300. Ashok Leyland is also a good BUY.It has grown over 60% in this year and will continue in the coming year too.The target I think for it is 50 in a period of around one year.
Logistics is also a good sector for the coming year.Top picks are Agies Logistics,Gati,Balmer Lawrie and Gateway distriparks.Buying any of these mentioned stocks will help you to earn a good percent as profit.They all have good medium and short term targets.Especially for Gateway distriparks which has current market price of 275 on NSE, the medium term target will be around 350- 400.Another important sector to watch is the hotel industry.Indian hotels,hotel Leela etc will gain in the coming year.Hotel Leela had planned to built hotels in two or three states in India in the next year.
Another important sector which is growing steadily is the jewellery and diamonds sector .These are growing steadily and silently which any one can notice.Many experts are saying that pharma stocks are not a good buy ie, they won't help you in the short term .Coming to software stocks TCS has some positive points over satyam computers . Satyam is not a good buy as there won't be any apprecication in this stock.In IT stocks mid cap stocks like geometric,IT education stocks like NIIT,Tulip (to be listed in january) will show good moves.Nowadays IT stocks are not much popular as early days.RBI ordered all PSUs to give good divident and bonus.This will sometimes reflect in PSU stocks . Then the big thing coming is the budjet,Almost all stocks and sensex will fluctuate acoordingly.But experts are saying that the coming bujet will be positive to sensex.We can also hope like that.