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Home Loans in India, EMI and loan repayment [Lessons 101]

by Kaushambi on November 11, 2011 |

Not all of us are informed and aware of the terms that are used in a home loan or how a home loan will affect our lives in the future. People who are not from a finance background may not even understand some of the most basic home loan terms used in India. (So, if [...]

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How to effectively manage Credit Card Debt in India!

by Kaushambi
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No longer are credit cards limited to the high income bracket population in India. The Indian population is now amassing credit card debts and ‘reward point’ strategies of banks. If you have a credit card debt in India, here are a few tips to keep in mind to reduce your debt. These tips to …

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Financial Sector Reforms: Regulatory truce in retail financial products space!

by Tensing Rodrigues
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The truce between SEBI and IRDA seems to be holding. Definitely the ugly spat is behind us; but is it time to sit back and relax ? I do not think so. We need to remember that the peace came through a ceasefire, not a resolution of the conflict; the conflict continues. Under …

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Contrarian Investing: Redefining the investing basics [Finance Friday]

by Charu
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I paraphrase Lord Rothschild: ‘The time to buy is when there’s blood on the streets.’ The strongly-held belief that the worse things seem in the market, the better the opportunities are for profit generation, forms the foundation for contrarian investing. A contrarian is early in investing in companies that have potential, even as the …

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Finance Friday: What is Microfinance doing in Capital Markets?

by Rishabh
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The buzzword in stock market today is Microfinance entering Capital markets. SKS Microfinance is going to raise Rs. 163 Crore through its IPO which is in news for few weeks. The Hyderabad based institution will be priced at Rs. 985 per share and the shares were oversubscribed by 13.7 times. CRISIL reports that …

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Finance Friday – Green Investments for a Green Future [Part II]

by Moneyworks4me
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Our last post ‘Green Investments for Green Future’ spoke about Green/Clean Technology being one of the fastest growing sectors. With increasing Government support and growing public awareness and interest in eco-friendly products, these companies are poised to grow tremendously. We also mentioned three companies (Praj, Suzlon & Moser Baer), that are involved in development of [...]

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Finance Friday: Telecom Sector Back with a Louder Ring!

by Viral Dholakia
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Ring! Ring! Didn’t hear it? Worry not; you will hear it ringing louder as the telecom sector is up for re-rating on the back of brokerage up gradation. First, a look at the telecom stocks on the Indian bourses: Date: July 9, 2010 – Bharti Airtel …

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Can BRIC Economies forge a New Global Reserve Currency?

by Viral Dholakia
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The 2008 recession has turned the global currency picture upside down. The impact of the slowdown has been felt harder on the advanced economies such as the US, UK and Europe, leading to substantial drain in their currency strength and prospects. Prior to the great recession, economists had pegged Euro as the next global …

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Finance Friday: India’s first ever IDR from Standard Chartered gets lukewarm response – subscribed 1.38 times !

by Viral Dholakia
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On April 2, we had posted under this very section of Friday Finance, regarding India’s first ever IDR issue by Standard Chartered Bank aiming to raise anywhere between $500-750 million through issue of 24 crore IDRs. Every 10 IDR will be representing 1 share of Standard Chartered under which investors will have the option …

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Finance Friday: Despite Global Rebound, Two-third of Shareholders still to offset Recessionary Losses!

by Viral Dholakia
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Isn’t rebound equal to the recovery? Not really! Read on… The rebound in the market valuations in the global markets in 2009 has not turned out to be an all-inclusive recovery around the sphere. Despite impressive gains registered during 2009, the total shareholder returns (TSR) from two-third of the large-cap global companies are still reeling [...]

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Finance Friday: India registers first ever IDR issue by StanChart – Will Global firms Follow the Suit?

by Viral Dholakia
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In what could be termed as one of the rare notifications – related to the IDR Rules 2004 – passed by the government in as early as 2004, but gets tapped by an overseas company only after 6 years of notification of the law, in 2010 now. The UK-based Standard Chartered Bank has filed …

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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