Isn’t this we always wanted to do? Correctly predicting stock market movements? Just imagine what would happen if we were able to do so 90% of the time. We would become part of a really rich community of people.Till today,…
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So Facebook has decided to buy WhatsApp. I am not sure whether a price tag of $19 Billion is in the ‘Highly Overpriced Zone’ or not. But atleast Mark Zuckerberg seems convinced with this mobile messenger’s ability to boost Facebook’s…
Read More Money Saving Tip # 1 : An Evil Idea To Reduce Your Phone Bills
There is not always an apparent rhyme and reason to the pay scale attached to certain jobs. You may become fire fighter because it seems glamorous and profitable, only to learn that a beach lifeguard who appears to be more…
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Shares of PSU banks have been bleeding for some time now. And unfortunately, some time back I had created a portfolio for tracking PSU banking stocks for next 5 years. Though it has only been 3 months, the fact is…
Read More PSU Banks are Losing Hell Lot of Money!! 1st Quarter Portfolio Update
I have just started reading the bestseller book by Rolf Dobeli titled ‘The Art of Thinking Clearly’ The very first chapter tells us why analyzing mistakes of dead companies can be beneficial for long term investors. If done diligently, this exercise…
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A few days back, I saw the Hollywood flick Wolf Of Wall Street. And since I am no pro in writing movie reviews, I decided to share with you guys what I believed was the most important thought of the…
According to Bible, one of the Seven Deadly Sinsis Jealousy. And I must confess that I am committing this sin now.I am jealous. And I am jealous of a 29 years old young girl. The name of this girl is…
Yesterday’s Economic Times carried an interesting article on why it makes sense to have a holding company for all PSUs.Personally, I am a proponent of dividend investing and think that it makes sense to go for good dividend paying stocks…
Read More PSU Holding Company – An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
An investor’s life is tough. And most of the times, it is because of cash. He is either short of cash when he wants to invest; or he has too much of it when he should not invest. Either way,…
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Crore. One followed by 7 zeros. There is something about this word which puts a person in an altogether different orbit. It does not matter whether a person has a crore rupees or not. The word is magical. If a…
Almost a year back, I had done a case study on Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. The study was an exercise to find a correlation (if any) between company’s share price and its book value per share. And surprisingly, this graph…
Read More IOCL’s Disinvestment & How You Can Benefit From It?
Either I am getting old or there is something seriously wrong with the way our generation has decided to manage their finances. Just last night, I was taking a stroll with my wife in South Mumbai when I saw a…
I was browsing through morning newspaper when the following headlines caught my eye - And another similar optimistic one was present in the online edition of the same newspaper – “2014 to be a hot year for equities” (source- Economic…
The year 2013 has ended. And today being the first Sunday of 2014, I have luckily got some free time to sip a cup of hot coffee and to think about what might happen in 2014, and how it would…
I am 100% sure that you would not read this 2900+ word post in one go. And I don’t want you to do it either. I have this strange habit of collecting quotes by people I respect. And being a…
