Month: June 2010
Below are all the posts archived for the month.
Wall Street Cheat Sheet: Psychology of a Market Cycle
in Opinion
I found this amazing Wall Street Cheat Sheet which depicts the psychology of a market cycle. This is true for Dalal Street and possibly every stock market in the world. Based on what I hear – I think we are currently somewhere between Optimism and Belief. Via The Big Picture
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Weekend links: June 26 2010
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First up, let me share this hilarious video of Hitler getting upset over the iPhone 4 reception problems. I didn’t get quite a few references in this, but still found it LOL funny. He’s Upset About the iPhone 4 Antenna from MG Siegler on Vimeo. On to some other stuff now: World’s biggest gold coin
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2 Year Returns of Existing Gold ETFs
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I read that HDFC is coming out with a new gold ETF, so I thought I’d check out how the existing ones are doing, and see what is the difference in returns between the gold ETFs that are already present in the market. I went to the NSE website, and looked up the closing prices
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Petrol prices freed from government controls
in Economy
The big news today is that the government has freed petrol prices, and raised prices of kerosene, diesel, LPG, and cooking gas prices. From Reuters: A panel of ministers increased prices of state-subsidised diesel, kerosene and cooking gas prices, which could help reduce the fiscal deficit from the projected 5.5 percent of 2010/11 GDP and
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iPhone 4 Reception Problems
in Personal Technology
The iPhone 4 was launched yesterday, and it seems that there are issues with the reception when the phone is held in a certain manner. Here is a video that better explains this. What is really interesting about this is that someone wrote an email to Steve Jobs asking him about the issue, and Jobs
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Motilal Oswal MOSt Shares M50 ETF – An Update
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Someone from Motilal Oswal AMC left a comment on my earlier post, in which I complained about insufficient information in the prospectus about the underlying index of the new ETF that Motilal is going to launch. I think the comment is worth the attention of a full post because it tells me that I was
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Motilal Oswal MOSt Shares M50 ETF
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Update: Motilal Oswal left a comment on this post pointing to more recent documentation about the ETF, which contains more information about the underlying index. Here is the updated post with that information. By now at least a few of you must have heard about this new ETF that is based on some sort of
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Would you rather live in Canada?
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I was surprised to see this graphic in the Globe and Mail, which surveyed people in various countries and asked them if they’d like to move to Canada. Specifically, they were asked to agree or disagree with the following statement: ‘If I had a choice to live in Canada or stay in my current country,
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Rupee to get its own symbol
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The Indian Rupee will have a symbol soon, and it will be one of the options shown below. Per NDTV The symbol is the Hindi letter Ra with two lines. I love the idea that the Rupee is going to have a symbol, and personally I like number 4 the most in this lot. NDTV
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France’s loss is Buffet’s gain
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Interesting piece in Business Week about Berkshire insuring other companies against a France victory. From BW: Warren Buffett won his bet against France in the World Cup when the 1998 champion was eliminated by South Africa. France fell 2-1 to the host nation today, after drawing Uruguay and dropping 2-0 to Mexico. Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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