The Hindu Business Line : Investment quiz

3. Having started operations in India as James Finlay several decades ago, this company now has a dominant position and has made big-ticket acquisitions at the global level in recent years. James Finlay is now known as...

4. Ranbaxy lost a patent challenge against Pfizer in the UK recently over the anti-cholesterol drug — Lipitor. What special status does Lipitor enjoy in the global drug market?

5. This exchange enables you to take bets on politics including election outcomes, current events, entertainment, financial indicators, legal issues and weather, to name a few of the unique contracts on offer.

Name this web-based trading facility.

6. Why is 1971 a watershed in the history of the US stock market?

7. There are seven stocks — ONGC, Reliance, NTPC, TCS, Infosys, Bharti Tele-Ventures and Wipro — that now have a market capitalisation in excess of Rs 50,000 crore. Which was the first stock that crossed this milestone?

8. What is the Kyohokai?

9. Which is the only fund house apart from UTI Mutual that has assets in excess of Rs 20,000 crore under management now? It crossed the threshold in August.

10. This Edinburgh-based insurer, which has assets of about $200 billion under management, has decided in the past week to end its existence as a mutual society and plans an IPO next year to list its stock on the London Stock Exchange. It is a partner in a highly regarded and successful insurance company in India. Name the company.

11. Put options give you the right to sell an underlying asset. What is a `Greenspan' put?

12. `One client at a time' is the tagline used by which global financial services player?

13. Name the fund that has raised the largest corpus during the initial offering period?

14. Who is the person in the accompanying photograph? He is the CEO of the world's biggest bank.

He was in India ten days ago on a high-profile visit that included meetings with Dr Manmohan Singh and Mr P. Chidambaram, among others.

15.Which stiffly priced IPO was listed at a substantial premium to the offer price during the past week even as equities tumbled; in the process, the company's market cap crossed the Rs 20,000-crore mark placing it way ahead of other power-equipment majors such as ABB and Siemens.

Answers

1. Singapore.

2. Benjamin.

3. Tata Tea

4. The first and the only drug so far to have a global market in excess of $10 billion a year.

5. www.intrade.com

6. The Nasdaq Composite Index made its debut.

7. Hindustan Lever

8. Kyohokai is `a group that cooperates with Toyota'. It was set up in 1943 and now comprises about 200 of its closest suppliers.

9. Prudential ICICI Mutual.

10. Standard Life, which is the joint-venture partner with HDFC.

11. Investors consider it as an implicit guarantee that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates if the environment gets troublesome for stocks; this tag become popular after the Fed Chief, Mr Alan Greenspan, cut rates sharply a few times in the 1990s as part of rescue efforts in crisis situations.

12. Morgan Stanley

13. Mastergain 1992

14. Charles O. `Chuck' Prince, CEO of Citigroup.

15. Suzlon Energy

Compiled by S. Vaidya Nathan

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