Month: July 2009

Below are all the posts archived for the month.

ProShares Credit Suisse 130 30 ETF
in ETF

Proshares is the master of creating exotic ETFs and was the first one to come out with a leveraged, and an inverse ETF. This time it has come out with another interesting ETF – the Proshares 130 30 ETF (CSM). The Proshares 130 30 Credit Suisse ETF (CSM) takes the 500 largest US stocks by
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Unemployment Number Nuances
in Economy

Unemployment numbers reported in the US can get a little confusing because they can be sliced and diced in different ways and news reports hardly ever go beyond the headlines to explain which numbers they are talking about. Here we take a look at two numbers that are used most often when reporting unemployment. Official
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Indiabulls Power IPO
in IPO/NFO

Business of Indiabulls Power The Indiabulls Power IPO is another power IPO to hit the Indian market after the Adani Power IPO. Indiabulls Power IPO is from the promoters of the Indiabulls group, which have a large presence in the real estate sector. Although Indiabulls Power was incorporated in 2007 and is relatively new, it
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Interesting Reads July 25 2009
in Links

IPO’s are really hot in China right now and very soon they are going to come out with the biggest IPO in the world ever — Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC),  worth $19 billion dollars. I was really keen on learning about these IPOs and was hunting for their prospectus. Finally I found
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Difference between an expensive toothbrush and mutual fund
in Opinion

Image by The Fost Last week I bought a battery operated toothbrush by mistake. It is not one of those fancy ones and it costs just a little more than the regular ones. I don’t have anything against battery operated toothbrushes, just that I didn’t want to keep something inside my mouth and then power
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Apples Cash Cow
in Opinion

I bought an iPhone from eBay about three weeks ago and have been totally hooked to it. It is the most awesome thing I have had for a while, and I can’t say how happy I am to own it. I have now used a Samsung, Nokia, Blackberry and an Apple phone, and I truly
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JP Morgan JF Greater China Equity Offshore Fund NFO
in IPO/NFO

JP Morgan Greater China mutual fund is a fund of funds. This means that it will not directly invest in stocks but invest in a mutual fund, which in turn invests in stocks. The difference between the JP Morgan Greater China fund and most other fund of funds is that this fund will primarily be
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