Month: May 2010
Below are all the posts archived for the month.
Weekend links May 31st 2010
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Posting has been light most of last week, and is likely going to be light for the next couple of weeks as well. Here are some links that I got time to check out during the week. S&P 500 Trading Video @ Smarter Wallet Build a loan portfolio with Lending Club @ Digerati Life Five
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How can Indian investors invest in Brazil?
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A reader emailed me with this question today, and it got me interested to find out how an Indian investor can get exposure to Brazil. First, I started off by searching how a retail investor can directly buy stocks in Brazilian equities, but that didn’t go anywhere. If anyone has any information on this –
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Standard Chartered IDR
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I wrote about the Standard Chartered IDR yesterday, and I thought I’d supplement that post with a little more detail about IDRs, since this is the first IDR ever, and there will probably be many more to come in the future. What is an IDR? IDR stands for Indian Depository Receipts, and Standard Chartered is
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Standard Chartered India IPO
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Update: Soon after I published this post I saw that Business Standard reports that the IDR will be priced between Rs. 100 and Rs. 115, and BL has a good article about this IDR as well. I think you should read those two stores instead of spending more time here. I was going through the
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InfoLadies, No Fear, Structured Products and more
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Here are a few links for some nice Sunday reading. The InfoLadies of Bangladesh, Armed with Bicycle and Netbooks @ Gizmodo Structured Products @ Capital Mind Fear is a No-No @ A VC As Mrs Watanabe ages, Japan turns to Mrs Wang and her credit card @ Beyond BRICS Job versus Vocation – What I
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Economy and your Finances Carnival 23rd May 2010
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It’s time for another carnival and I hope you enjoy these posts here. Thanks to all who contributed. Enjoy! Debt Tom Tessin presents 7 Steps to a Lower APR posted at FSC Blog, saying, “Want to get a lower APR on your credit card? If so, here are 7 steps you can take in order
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Fixed deposits interest rates in India
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Update: I am no longer updating this page, but you can find some of the best interest rates currently offered in India here. As I reviewed my bank interest rates in India page to see if it needed to be updated – I saw that I didn’t include a few banks that were paying a
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Book Review: The Little Book That Beats The Market by Joel Greenblatt
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I read The Little Book That Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt last Sunday, and liked it quite a bit. The book promises you a magic formula that will give you above average stock market returns over the long run, and quite honestly I do believe that if followed – this formula has the potential
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Access Facebook free on your mobile
in Personal Technology
Facebook announced today that it has collaborated with mobile operators throughout the world to provide access to a new mobile version of Facebook for free. The new site is called 0.facebook.com, and you won’t be charged any data usage charges, if you are with one of their partnering mobile phone operators. Reliance and Videocon have
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Clean 404: Tool to fight Link Rot for Bloggers and Webmasters
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I know that some of you have blogs of your own, so today I am going to tell you about a new feature that I started using on OneMint, and will be of interest to other bloggers and website owners as well. Now, I know all you smart readers are wondering why I am telling
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Flaws of Market Capitalization Indices
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Today, Mr Credit Card from www.askmrcreditcard.com is going to drift away from his usual credit card rant. While he normally writes about airline credit cards or secured credit cards, today he is going to contribute a post about the flaws of market capitalization index. Manshu is always talking and zooming in on the latest ETF
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Weekend Links 15 May 2010
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Here are the links from this weekend. Enjoy! The Power of Why (Simon Sinek’s TED Talk) via Brad Feld. Cash transactions will become costlier in HDFC Bank @ Think Plan Invest China cements its Africa link @ Beyond BRICS Why Gallup when you can Tweet @ HBR $5 home-made toaster teaches the value of Walmart
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