First of all, I hate predicting – especially if it is about the future! Having said that it is necessary to look at some of the over optimism that is there in the market and at some of the problems too. So today let us look at the issues: A stagnating Europe and USA will […]
Let us see what your banker says…..and how you should interpret it… It is not easy being a layman today! The amount of ‘advise’ that is dumped on you is stunning. Advise on where to travel, when to travel, how to reduce weight, how to impress your girlfriend / wife / boss/ …, grow your […]
Just wondering what advise would the American investors be getting from their advisers? Well they must be saying: – US has been downgraded, but our government is still able to borrow at rates at their lowest rates in the past 60 years. – US is growing at a rate better than all the others in […]
I could have written a long article or just said…’I have said it so many times’…! There is no great secret to investing in volatile times. Imagine the situation of a person who is doing a Recurring Deposit in a bank…does he/she think what are the interest rates prevailing? No. He just does his RD. […]
Caveat Emptor. I do not understand interest rates. To be more precise, do not understand interest rates at all. Many people in the floating rate model of interest for housing may not know that they are already paying north of 14.5% p.a. interest on their loans. Ouch. It hurts. For new buyers of big houses […]
I have a few friends, cousins, etc. who ask me BEFORE THEY INVEST…here is an email that got forwarded to me saying…sounds too good to be true, want you to say my decision of saying NO is correct… I have reproduced the mail here..was sent by a National Level Distributor (not a bank) …clearly violating […]
This morning I was watching television and an expert came…. He was asked what shares to buy…he said buy pharma. He then said buy GSK…. Then he was asked which shares one should NOT BUY…and he said: Do not buy Realty stocks, infrastructure stocks, auto, ….not sure what else..but auto, infra and realty were surely […]