In an earlier post I had mentioned that 3 shares fell into a theme for me – good companies went into bad times (eps was down), realised its mistakes and took corrective action. The 3 shares were Essel Packaging, Cholamandalam Finance and Themis Medicare. I have no clue WHY, but Themis Medicare went up from […]

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For the true blue speculator one more product is available – the Currency Derivatives. All brokerage houses now provide you with this new product – and is available with just a few clicks. So if you do not know anything about $, Euro, Pound, Jap Yen, ….you are still welcome to deal in EURINR (Euro […]

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OK Thailand is not in the same category as Greece and Portugal..but if the Red Shirts continue…then the recovery of Thailand will take a beating… Feels good to say …’I said it here first’….as channels would have said..see my posting of 22nd April. The White Man had NOT PRICED in the default or even the […]

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If porn is expected to excite you – emotionally well financial news papers do it just as well as the television media! I decided to be as free of emotion (:)). So I decided to pick a news item which read like this: ” …the firm in its report ..said also pointed to continued EROSION […]

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Dr. D Y Patil is a winner of the Padmashree award and his son Vijay Patil has built a beautiful stadium in Nerul and named it after his father. This includes an international stadium, an Olympic sizeĀ  swimming pool, cricket ground, tennis courts, badminton courts, etc. Of course the cricket ground is famous…where you watched […]

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NPS – New pension scheme or National pension scheme….does attract a lot of attention from many investors. However the jury is still out on whether one should invest in it nor not invest. One major (I mean MAJOR) DRAWBACK is you have no clue what will happen once you finish the accumulation stage and go […]

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For many people financial problems start with a good intention. Here is a case in point. One person I know has an uncanny ability to get herself into a financial mess. It would be difficult for many people I know to even imagine how ingenious she is in creating trouble for herself. One example here. […]

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