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Finance Friday: The Fate of Low Floating-stock Counters – Valuation Crunch in NMDC FPO

by Viral Dholakia on March 12, 2010

The Follow-on public offer (FPO) of the largest iron ore producer in the country National Minerals Development Corporation (NMDC) is currently open for subscription with a price band of Rs. 300-350 wherein the government plans to divest 8.38% stake in the market. The last date for subscription is today. Markets Way [...]

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Indian Stock Markets Going Global, How Good Is It ?

by Ankit Agarwal

Ever since Mr.Bhave took the charge of SEBI, the Indian Capital Markets have had a metamorphosis of sorts be it via new regulations, ramped up security, new avenues to trade and various other initiatives.Most of these changes have had primarily two objectives,

To bring in more transparency in the markets and bring down the manipulators
To increase [...]

2 comments March 11, 2010 Continue Reading →

Is Arbitrary Investment in Tax-Saving ELSS MF Scheme Just Before the Year End Justified?

by Viral Dholakia

As the close of financial Year 2009-10 nears by, the inflows into Equity-Linked Savings Scheme (ELSS) is gaining its ground over other mutual fund schemes for the sheer benefit of tax-saving advantage that these schemes offer to its investors. In fact, since last one month, the record inflow of retail funds in to such ELSS [...]

5 comments February 17, 2010 Continue Reading →

Which Life Insurance Should You Get?

by Madhav Shivpuri

Insurance comes in many hues and to choose one over the other you need to develop certain financial intelligence to assess your options. In this post I will only discuss about the benefits of ‘Term insurance’ due to reasons mentioned below. What is insurance? First and foremost one needs to [...]

1 comment February 3, 2010 Continue Reading →

The Best Money Managers show which country they will invest in !

by Arun Prabhudesai

The Davos summit is on top of every top executive worldwide. The most rich and powerful from each country attend this high profile meet. There is a little exercise that carried out during this meet – World’s top Investment Managers get together in one small room and are given mock $1 [...]

6 comments January 29, 2010 Continue Reading →

India 3rd amongst Emerging countries considered for real estate acquisitions

by Arun Prabhudesai

According to survey conducted by Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE), India is 3rd behind China and Brazil to attract foreign investment in real estate. China is heads and shoulders above the others as the preferred country for Foreign investment in real estate – Infact China is the only country where more [...]

0 comments January 22, 2010 Continue Reading →

Is the Indian IT Sector set for a Stock Market rebound ?

by Ankit Agarwal

The Indian IT sector , the darling of trade pundits is seeing some kind of resurgence since the start of the year.After a tumultuous last year which saw the Indian Stock Market losing nearly 50-60% of its value, IT stocks fared ever so badly.

It was however evident since most of the revenue that the Indian [...]

6 comments January 17, 2010 Continue Reading →

Technology spells doom to day traders in Stock Market

by Arun Prabhudesai

Like I mentioned in my earlier post, I will be getting quite active in stock Market (that’s one of my resolutions) in 2010. You may see increase in the posts on stock Market in coming days. While researching a few things on the net, I hit upon this very interesting news. There are lot [...]

10 comments January 13, 2010 Continue Reading →

Question: Whats the future of Stock Market in Twenty Ten ?

by Arun Prabhudesai

If you are expecting an answer to the question above, sorry to disappoint you. I don’t have any answer personally. One of the resolutions that I have made this year is – I will be more active in Indian Stock Market – And hence this question to readers. You can say I am crowd [...]

24 comments January 12, 2010 Continue Reading →

Rural Market is The Way To Go, Walden invests in CoOptions technologies

by Ankit Agarwal

The Rural sector has been seeing some steady action in recent times. With the global economy shrinking in the past year and half, organizations have been exploring new untapped markets to create demand. Indian Rural Sector – a highly unexploited sector despite having a sizable population makes it a potential new market. With plans in [...]

0 comments November 23, 2009 Continue Reading →

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

by Ankit Agarwal

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: India to begin winding up stimulus soon

by Arun Prabhudesai

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 [...]

1 comment November 13, 2009 Continue Reading →

Land disputes is costing India 100 Billion Dollars of Investment !

by Arun Prabhudesai

We very well know the story of Tata Nano Land Dispute. What was West Bengal’s loss though was Gujarat’s profit. Nano’s are now coming out of the state. However, most of the projects are not as lucky as Nano to get a Land replacement. Did you know that 70% of total [...]

4 comments November 4, 2009 Continue Reading →

Why Warren Buffet Makes Money and You Don’t

by Arun Prabhudesai

Yes, You. For the matter it includes me too but the title seems catchy that way ! Jokes apart, what is it that out of so many people invested in the Stock Markets only a few make a real fortune out of it? As a matter of fact, barring Mr. Rakesh Jhunjhunwalla [...]

18 comments October 26, 2009 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday: Midcap MF+ SIP = A Great Investment

by Arun Prabhudesai

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 →

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