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SIMPLE ECONOMICS
Are you lucky?
Consider this. Your friend tells you that he bought his dream car with the profits he made from trading in the stock market. This encourages you to dabble in the markets too. Your portfolio, however, declines 25 per cent. Will you blame ...
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TAX TALK
Trading or speculating?
I am a day trader. I purchase shares normally with the intention of taking delivery. However, if I get a price which is more than the purchase price, I sell the share without taking delivery and book a profit. I also sell and re-purchase ...
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IN FOCUS
Stanchart MF takeover — What's in it for UBS
With a large, mostly untapped pool of household savings and its newfound investor appetite for equity mutual funds, the Indian market has once again become a sought-after destination for global financial ...
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AUTO FOCUS
Embera CRDi: Sings a diesel Sonata
The new Sonata Embera diesel features a re-worked, more-empowered common-rail direct injection engine, matched with a new six-speed manual gearbox.
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BOOK VALUE
Gold, the ultimate dollar hedge
The near future could prove to be a financial disaster for everyone who continues to have faith in the strength of the dollar.
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PORTFOLIO MOVES
Magnum Midcap Fund — Manufacturing in favour
The year 2006 was not a great year for mid-cap stocks; along with small-caps, it bore the brunt of the market turmoil. The returns generated in the first few months of the last calendar year failed to sustain till the year-end. But the ...
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F & O OUTLOOK
Nifty may head southwards
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THE BIG DEAL
Curtains on two thrillers
Fasten your seat-belts! The outcome of two of the biggest acquisitions involving Indian companies will be clinched soon. On January 29, the Hong Kong-based Hutchison Telecommunications is convening a board meeting to take stock of its 67 per cent ...
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YOUNG INVESTOR
Fear not commodity investing
With few factors at play, commodity markets are easy to understand
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Open interest as a barometer of derivatives market
If the markets are on an uptrend and open interest is also increasing, it is a bullish signal. It implies the entry of new players, who are creating fresh long positions and suggests the flow of extra money into the market.
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CALL CENTRE
Limit your market losses
Last week, we discussed the market and limit orders. There is another special option called `stop loss order'. As the term suggests, it aims at minimising the loss in any trade and is typically used when the market goes into reverse gear. This ...
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Money-Talk
Mr George Van Der Merwe, 30, is the Chief Operating Officer at Sahara Computers and Electronics. With a Post-Graduate Diploma in IT and Management from South Africa, he started his career in IT Services and Consulting Business. He took ...
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Investment Nuggets
Jesse Livermore is widely acclaimed as the greatest and one of the most successful stock traders on Wall Street. Known by his nickname, "The Boy Plunger", he is said to have gone short (selling a stock that one does not own hoping to buy ...
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