Depending on your point of view you can decide what is ‘B’. Let us take the word as BRIGHT. How can this happen? Well brokers can get excited about earning some money so they drop brokerage charges to 0.5% per transaction (which is what they charge on equity shares) and do the transaction. The greatest [...]
Mumbai has a peculiar problem- exhorbidant real estate prices. However this does not mean economics is at work. I would know of many people who live far, far beyond their means. How does this happen? Well their parents are cash-flow poor, but asset rich. The children are asset poor, but have some cash flow. Take [...]
Nobody believes that tech stocks can do well in 2010, correct? This comes from 2 fears – US recovery will not be too great and that the dollar may weaken. Let us look at the dollar – it looks like the dotcom boom – when we were all sure that the tech stocks can only [...]
A senior executive from a leading private sector bank met up for lunch. One of the topics that came up was “Will gold prices go up?”. He immediately said, YES, SURE, it will shoot up if we sell more gold. Intrigued, I asked him to explain. He told me a story of one PYT that [...]
First Make a budget! – this is a good new year resolution to make. Perhaps the best. Budget, is normally a word which has negative connotations! If you see saving and investing as “consumption foregone today for consuming at a later date” you might see it in a different light. One of the challenges with [...]
The advantage of working for a duopoly – especially one which is quasi government are manifold. One is you get paid like the private sector and second is you are sure to be secure, get stock options, have an indexed pension, etc. Must be funny in a rich man’s world – like Abba Said! Look [...]