Lot of young adults ask me “How to get Rich?” – and like I have always said..under their breath they utter “quickly”. Like one of the persons said ‘Sir when I say rich or wealthy..I see myself roaming the world in J class and skiing in the Alps, not sipping coffee in Switzerland when I […]

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I have been in the markets for a real long time. As a friend says when we entered the market flying was considered dangerous and sex was considered safe! I started learning about something called PRICE-DIVIDEND RATIO. I was told dividends are the only thing that a small investor knows for real, so he should […]

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Goldman Sachs recently invested Rs. 500 million in Facebook – implying a valuation of US $ 50 Billion! Now this can mean many things – let us speculate! 1. Goldman Sachs (GS)  genuinely believes that FB has a valuation of $ 50 billion. 2. There is a FB IPO in the offing and GS has […]

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bloggers are a funny lot..they are a part of the media, but they are not dependent on advertising. So as an investor the blogger can afford to look at say 2-3 fund houses, he can criticize the authorities….can generally have fun at everybody and if you thought only I laughed at ‘experts’ think again…Deepak has […]

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Are we in a bear market or in a bull market? Frankly nobody has been able to answer this question when the market is on! 3 months or 6 months later everybody will tell you that “May 2008 to Oct. 2008” we were in a bear market, however now we are in a bull market. […]

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100 points on the Nifty lost in 45 minutes, that is amazing…! Look at the language in the press from Saturday to Monday….it will all say ‘Markets in a Panic’, ‘Markets crash’, ‘Investors loose Rs. 13,455 crores in market cap’ I spoke to 3 big brokers and one trader (old friends who do not mind […]

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I had done the following post in the 1st week of June, 2006. Except for the numbers, the story is just as fine. It originally appeared in the Personal finance section of moneycontrol.com Okay, so the market fell 1,100 points on 22 May 2006, it fell 350 points on 31 May 2006 and another 327 […]

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