Stock Investment Options for Non Resident Indians

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The Securities and Exchange Board of India have opened many ways for NRI's to invest in Indian stock markets through various channels, Provided these channels are registered with SEBI and authorised to do stock market investment in india from overseas. Thus NRI's looking for investment in India should choose any of these channels which is described in this post.

NRI's should keep themselves updated with the developments in Indian stock markets. They can make huge amount of money by investing in dull market and selling when the bulls are all around. There are also lots of brokers whoe can help them out in choosing a good investment option. Indian government has opened up various ways for Non resident Indians for investing in india, this helps in two ways as it gives constant inflow of USD's into country thus keeping rupee depretiation in check and it is like another source of investment from outside world. Many tax heaven nations like Mauritius tops the list of foreign investments into India, but acc to me this money is Indian black money coming back through foreign route(it's not proved though).

So here I explain various options available to NRI's for investment in Indian Stock markets:

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Top 5 MF schemes by 2 year returns

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Mutual Funds investing is as riskier as stock market investments. But higher the risk more is the profit one can get from Mutual Funds Investing. In past couple of years stock market has fallen due to economic recession which started in 2008 and still continuing, thus Gold became the faourite investment option and hence the top 5 Mutual Funds schemes with best returns are all dealing with gold investments.

Top 5 Mutual funds by returns in india:

Mutual Fund Scheme	Return perc for 1 year	2 year return
SBI Gold Exchange Traded Scheme	36.45 perc
Reliance Gold Exchange Traded fund	36.45 perc	22.92 perc
UTI Gold Exchange Traded fund	36.39 perc	22.94 perc
Quantum Gold Exchange traded Fund	36.37 perc	22.89 perc
Kotak Gold	36.36 perc	22.85 perc

Indian Stock indices breaches 17600 level

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It was yet again a good day for Indian Stock markets as benchmark indices including BSE's SENSEX and NSE's NIFTY close up by over 1 percent today. Global stock markets also remained in green today. Indian stock markets saw lot of buying by institutional investors.

The most watched Indian index Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensex closed at 17604.96, up 173.11 points. The 30-share large-cap index touched a high of 17630.53 during intraday trading today. Whereas the broader index Nifty ended at 5325.85, up 55.95 points. The index touched a intraday low of 5255.55.

Sector wise performance of Bombay Stock Exchange is as follows:

BSE Realty Index moved up by 2.15 percent, BSE Healthcare Index gained 1.69 percent, BSE Power Index alsp gaining 1.49 percent and BSE FMCG Index advanced 1.44 percent. BSE Metal Index was however down 1.09 percent.

BSE's SENSEX 6 month prediction for 2012

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Predicting Stock markets trends is a tough job as predicting anythings future accurately is never easy and cannot be correct always. Predicting Indian stock markets is very tough job as it is highly volatile market and any prediction of BSE's SENSEX can never be accurate but it gives an investor a 6 months to one year idea about where the Indian stock markets are heading.

Here is prediction for Bombay Stock Exchange's SENSEX for 6 months till august 2012, It should only be used as reference and often might not be correct.

SENSEX 6 month forecast:

Month	Forecast Value
February 2012	16375
March 2012	16130
April 2012	15940
May 2012	16090
June 2012	16320
July 2012	16590
August 2012	16890

Indian Stock indices smiles, up over 2 percent

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The day was good for Indian stock markets as benchmark indices including BSE's SENSEX and National Stock Market's NIFTY closed up by over 2 percent today. Indian Investors took positive cues from global stock markets which became optimistic after European leaders agreed to tighter budget rules designed to try to help nations avoid unsustainable debt costs thus bringing optimism in global investors mood.

The 30 component Sensex closed at 17193.55, up 330.25 points. The large-cap index touched a high of 17238.99 during daytrade today. The National Stock Exchange's Nifty closed at 5199.25, up 111.95 points. The broader index touched a low of 5120.15 in intraday trading.

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Sector wise updates of Bombay Stock Exchange:

BSE Bankex closed higher by 3.84 percent, BSE Realty Index also gained 3.51 percent, BSE Auto Index moved high by 2.37 percent and BSE Metal Index moved 2.24 percent higher today. Market breadth was positive on the BSE with 1804 gainers against 1034 losers.

SENSEX NIFTY nosedives on weak global cues

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Major Indian Stock indices including Bombay Stock Exchange's most watched SENSEX and National Stock Exchange's broader index NIFTY closed down by over 2 percent today. Rising Euro Zone fears and uncertainity in global stock markets threatened investors to come onto Dalal Street and Indian stock markets saw heavy selling activity throughout the day.

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The 30 component Sensex closed at 16863.30, down 370.68 points. The large-cap index touched a high of 17138.04 in daytrading today. The National Stock Exchange's Nifty closed today at 5087.30 down by over 2.26 percent. The broader index touched a low of 5076.70 during intraday trade today.

BSE Midcap Index closed down 1.96 percent today and BSE Smallcap Index moved 1.82 percent in red. If we check sector wise performance it doesnot look good either as all of the sectors remained in red through out the day. BSE Capital Goods Index closed down by 5.55 percent, BSE Power Index declining 3.54 percent, BSE Realty Index also down by 3.10 percent and BSE Metal Index moved 2.85 percent in red. Market breadth was negative on the BSE with 997 gainers against 1820 losers.