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Finance Friday

Finance Friday: India Growth, Stock Markets, SEBI Regulations & more..

by Ankit Agarwal

India Growth Story Is Still On Track, says IMF
Even with a back breaking food inflation and policy tightening from the government, the India long term growth story is still very much on the right track.The International Monetary Fund (IMF). Betting on the strong fundamentals of the Indian economy, the IMF expects Indian economy to grow [...]

3 comments February 5, 2010 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday: Deal Radar, Acquisitions , Rate Hike

by Ankit Agarwal

Deal Radar: Finance Sector Seeing Consolidation, Aptech Expanding
The M&A scene has been a little dull off late but there are signs of it picking up albeit slowly.We covered the Bharti-Warid deal earlier which was a a comparatively big ticket deal.However, it is the finance sector that is seeing a lot of consolidation.There is increased M&A [...]

2 comments January 29, 2010 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday : Is HealthCare Sector Set To Make a Stock Market Impact This Year

by Ankit Agarwal
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Its a new year and a economically promising one at that.However, the stock markets have been playing a see-saw ride for sometime now with no major fluctuations.Sectoral Investing has lost its flavour for sometime now but analysing a particular sector still helps one shortlist the stocks to invest in.Recently, we had covered a discussion on [...]

8 comments January 22, 2010 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday : Infosys Results , Industrial Index, Rising Inflation

by Ankit Agarwal
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Infosys Quarter Results Beat Industry Estimates , raises Revenue Guidance
The year has started on a promising note as far as financial numbers are considered.Infosys, the IT bellwether beat delivered better then expected third quarter results which bought a short term cheer to the Indian Stock Markets.
Infosys reported a 2.7% rise in consolidated net profit for [...]

15 comments January 15, 2010 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday:Crowning Glory For ONGC,SAIL and NTPC

by Ankit Agarwal
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The government has recently upgraded the status of three PSU’s from ‘Navratna’ to ‘Maharatna’ .What this means in layman’s language is that,
ONGC , SAIL  and NTPC will enjoy greater financial and operational autonomy in a bid to scale up their operations and expand globally. (Business Standard)
Indian PSU sector has seen a lot of fresh reforms [...]

0 comments December 25, 2009 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday: Who Made You The Maximum Money In The Stock Market This Year

by Ankit Agarwal
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This year has been a see-saw ride as far as the Stock Markets are concerned. The Markets witnessed one of the worst falls but staged a comeback of sorts during the later part of the year. The fall was meteoric owing to the global economy slowdown which turned out to be disastrous for the Indian [...]

16 comments December 18, 2009 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday: How do you manage your expenses?

by Ankit Agarwal
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Let’s face it. How good are you at managing your finances? I speak for myself and I know I am very bad at it. With finances I am not talking about investments and the savings , that I somehow do a decent job maintaining.

What I am referring to here is those daily is managing the finances [...]

7 comments November 26, 2009 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday:The Great PSU sale is on, Government To Raise Crores

by Ankit Agarwal
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Lo and Behold!! The Indian Government is all geared up for the sale of a lifetime.What’s on offer here? A gamut of Public Sector Units(PSU’s) which will be subjected to disinvestment and a partial stake will be offered to the investors via the Stock Markets.The government is pushing hard to raise capital for social sector [...]

0 comments November 19, 2009 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday: Why Should The Investor Suffer From Scams Like Pyramid Saimira

by Arun Prabhudesai
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It is said that Bad News spreads like wild fire. Throw Stock Markets in the mix and the fire turns into forest fire burning down tons of cash. The Indian Stock Markets have been doing rather well hovering around 16k levels for some time now with short-lived bear/bull rallies.

So, when you see the usual “Sensex [...]

8 comments November 13, 2009 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday: India to begin winding up stimulus soon

by Arun Prabhudesai
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The Indian government continued to give out strong signals over the weekend about its intention to wind up fiscal stimulus initiatives and cut back on its loose monetary policies. At the India Economic Summit in Delhi yesterday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed his view that there are now very clear signs of recovery in the [...]

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Finance Friday: How Infosys made Billions – Made Millions for its shareholders too !

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Infosys – The IT bellwether was instrumental in putting Indian IT prowess on the global map. Mr. Narayana Murthy, a first generation entrepreneur executed his dream to perfection. Today, the multi-billion dollar company gives you no idea that it originated in a dinky garage.

The last post on Why Warren Buffet Makes money and you don’t [...]

14 comments October 30, 2009 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday: India Inc recovering well, industrial numbers bear the testimony

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Amidst all the talks of recession and economic downturn talks that have dominated much of the last year, a single good news bought a wave of hope for the millions of investors. But then, as they say the good news was hard to come by and they never came in bulk. [...]

4 comments October 16, 2009 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday: Midcap MF+ SIP = A Great Investment

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Is there a safe way to invest in Market? – There is none – Some are safer and some are riskier, depends on your appetite for Risk. This Finance Friday post is directed at people who are just getting into Stock markets and want to start with a relatively safer option. [...]

1 comment October 9, 2009 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday: Infosys rolls back freeze, pay hikes proposed

by Arun Prabhudesai
Infosys Pay Hike

If you wanted any more proof that the economic scenario is geared for better days, this one is only going to reassure your hopes. Infosys- the IT bellwether has finally decided to hike pays coming this October. It is notable that Infosys among others had initiated a freeze on pay [...]

1 comment September 25, 2009 Continue Reading →
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