Financial analysts try to determine the value of a stock by calculating a company’s discounted “free cash flow”. This is based on a series of computer models with assumptions about future sales, earnings and growth rates. These models are only as good as the programmers and analysts that build them. What you end up with […]

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Are we in a bear market? Well I do not know. But surely the index is a far cry from 21000 index that we had seen earlier this year. Is this the first time that we are going through a bear market in India? The answer is a mixed one. It is a no if […]

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Markets in the country are going through a bad phase for sure. However, it may be an opportunity to buy if you are optimistic. The main worries are – 1. There is a large sales force today far, far divorced from the end customer! 2. In the previous bear market the sales force (brokers) were […]

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As is fashionable and necessary there is a discussion on a leading channel about how the market will behave. Of course to quote Taleb “Sensible sound bytes is an oxymoron”. So please listen to all the noise and come to your own conclusion. There is Shankar sharma who is predicting that the market might see […]

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As is customary there is now a series of interviews to find out whether we are in a bull market or a bear market. Udyan Mukherjee is speaking to a host of experts to ask for their views. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala – (whose call on the IT stocks last June was bang on target) says we […]

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This is not an article on market timing! I am still not out clearly on whether we are in a bear market, bull market, recessionary market, growing market or emerging markets! This article is about why you must invest TODAY! You must invest if you wish to have a corpus available for some life time […]

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A bull market creates a happy mind set and a bear market (Ok, Ok, I am not saying we are in one) – whether for a short term or a longer term makes people anxious. Are you financially anxious? How does one deal with financial anxiety? Well there are many things to do. Your life […]

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