Month: December 2008
Below are all the posts archived for the month.
2008 – The Year of the Rollercoaster
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As the year 2008 ends – the beginning of the year seems like a distant memory. The year 2008 started with a big bang and markets all over the world were doing great. The Indian benchmark Sensex rose to about 21000 during 2008 and made all sorts of all time highs along the way. Oil
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How are bond yields calculated?
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Bond Yields can be calculated in a few different ways, and, we will look at two common ones here. The first one is: Current Yield. Current Yield This is really simple to calculate, and, you just need to know three things – Coupon Rate Par Value Price of the Bond The formula to calculate the
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Forex and Leverage
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If you are living in the United States, it is possible for you to invest in forex directly. You can open up a forex trading account with someone like – Forex.com and start trading in currency for as little as $250. It is reasonably easy to get an account started and then start trading; it
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
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Wishing all readers of OneMint a Merry Christmas and a very Happy, Profitable and Prosperous New Year.
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Google Trends and Market Busts
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Have a look at the two charts below. The first one is the way the S&P has moved over the past few years. The next chart shows data from Google Trends. It shows the search volume for the phrase – “Stock Market” . When I did the search on Google Trends – I was pretty
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Peter Schiff – Prediction on Obama
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I just finished reading “The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets” by Peter Schiff and there is an interesting prediction about the 2012 US presidential election in the book. The book was published before the results of the current elections were out and Peter Schiff has actually made a prediction about Who will
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Businesses that die slowly
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When I reached India for a three week vacation early this week – the first thing I noticed was that the only Paid Phone Booth left in our apartment complex had closed. A lot of Mom n Pop stores have extra phones installed in them – through which, customers can make paid phones call. These
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Is it just me or has the world gone crazy?
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A Saudi millionaire has offered to pay $10 million for the shoe – that was hurled at President Bush in Iraq. Fed has more or less said that they are going to print as much money – as needed – to put the economy back on track. Mr. Madoff conned some very rich people, and,
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Fear and Greed eclipse each other
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Fear and Greed are the two driving forces of any market. Greed inflates prices: gets more and more people to jump in the bandwagon and buy the stock, commodity or tulip bulbs and drive prices to a level where they are no longer sustainable and become a bubble. When greed overcomes the market; no one
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India takes steps to boost the housing sector
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India has started off its efforts to boost the sagging housing market. While the markets have cheered the steps of the State Bank to boost the housing market – these steps look eerily familiar to the artificially low interest rates during the Greenspan era – that led to the housing market boom and bust in the United
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The Lost Decade of Japan
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The period from 1990 to 2000 is known as the – Lost Decade in Japan. Japan grew at a staggering pace up until the late 80’s, on the back of its own real estate boom, and on December 29th 1989, Japan’s key stock market index – Nikkei 225 rose to a peak of 38916. Much
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Interesting Reads – 13th December
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Here are some interesting articles from around the web this week: 1. Historical Distribution of the S&P 500: My Money Blog has got this interesting chart of how the S&P has performed since 1825. Incidentally, the year 2008 is among one of the worst in this chart! 2. Paul Krugman’s Nobel Prize Lecture: This is
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