Month: July 2010
Below are all the posts archived for the month.
Weekend links: 31st July 2010
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Here are some interesting articles I found this week: 1. Firefox 4 Beta 1 is smart looking, snappy @ Reuters 2. 5 Golden Rules to save for retirement @ Smarter Wallet 3. Is A Liberal Arts Education Worth it @ Digerati Life 4. India, US sign final nuclear pact, prepare for Obama visit @ Business
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Do you remember the crash of 2008?
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The markets have been doing well lately, and people are getting interested in stock markets again. We have yet to reach the highs made earlier, but now the question on people’s mind is when rather than if. 2008 jolted a lot of people who were heavily invested in equities, and this chart of the Nifty
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How should a fresher find jobs?
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I am getting an increasing number of emails from freshers who are looking to find jobs on OneMint, and since that is obviously not possible – I am going to write about the steps a fresher should take to find jobs. I know that this is not relevant for most of our community members here,
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The Rupee Symbol, Capital Gains and Stock Valuations
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Here are a few interesting links I found this week. By now you must have seen the new Rupee symbol, and if you are interested in using it with MS Word, there is a font available that lets you do it. This link tells you how to use it. As far as I can tell,
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The Problogger 7 link challenge
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I saw the 7 link challenge at Problogger today, and thought it was a really clever idea. The challenge is to write a post with links back to 7 older posts which fit the following categories: Your first post A post you enjoyed writing the most A post which had a great discussion A post
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Decoupling is evident in the long run
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I have never taken decoupling seriously because of what normally happens during crashes. Here is a chart that illustrates it well. When one major stock market falls, every other market in the world follows it. It can be the US, China or London or whatever. When things are going good for emerging economies, people talk
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Economy and your finances carnival July 3rd 2010
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Welcome to this edition of OneMint – economy and your finances. Marcus Arkan presents Understand The A To Z Of Home Mortgage Canada posted at SMI Blog, saying, “Syndicate Mortgages provides Mortgage Canada News, and updates! And the Best Mortgage Canada Rates in today’s Market, no wonder more and more Canadians choose Syndicate Mortgages for
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Expense Ratios of HDFC Gold ETF and ICICI Prudential Gold ETF
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I wrote about the past two year returns on gold ETFs a few days ago, and got a comment on that inquiring about the expense ratio of the two new gold ETFs that are going to be launched shortly. The first one is HDFC’s gold ETF, which is expected to have recurring expenses of 2.50%
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