I had predicted a good year for equities in my forecast for 2012(published on 31st dec 2011) with sensex going to the levels of 20000 to 21000 by the end of the year.I also had predicted that some strong businesses(My top 10 stock picks in the same blog) in specific sectors like Banking&Finance, [...]
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Indian economy is at cross roads today when its suddenly being compared with 1991 situation when India had to pledge Gold to borrow foreign exchange. The GDP growth rates have dipped down to 5.3% (the lowest rate in last 9 years) with high inflation rates at 7.4% , raising an unprecedented spectre [...]
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Wish you all a very happy and wealth generating new year -2012. 2011 will definitely be remembered as one of the forgettables years for the Global stock markets as far as investment returns are concerned. While the US markets closed virtually unchanged with respect to 2010 closing level(0.4% down), [...]
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This is uncertain but interesting times when the markets and Rupee are touching new lows . Fear is the all pervasive emotion hitting all the market parcticipants with investors and traders triping over each other to sell their assets . In these uncertain times , what should be our investing strat [...]
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Its incredible and wierd to think that a tiny economy like Greece with $310 Billion GDP(<0.5% of world GDP) could threaten to engulf and freeze the world financial markets with the prospect of Greek default on soverign debt payments. The experts are predicting that the damaging impact o [...]
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The first world consisting of developed nations – US and west Europe – are at the cusp of recession again . This time not due to recklessness and greed of private sector (mortgage companies and investment banks) but due to profligacy and extravagence of the goverments. Unthinkables l [...]
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We are witnessing very interesting and extraordinary times these days when two of the unthinkable and the un-imagined events happened . Both the events announced the “Beginning of the End” of American Economic hegemony The first event was related to US debt ceiling crisis whic [...]
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In my earlier article named “How to take advantage of the biggest growth story of the 21st century-Indian economy”, I had talked about my “Hi-Five principles/framework” of value Investing which I use for picking great businesses (stocks) within Indian economy. This framework h [...]
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In my earlier post, I had talked about Indian economy being the biggest growth story of the 21st century. This is based on how the most reliable global institutions and global banks are forecasting Indian economy to power ahead of US and China economy by 2050(pl refer to the earlier blog on 25t [...]
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In my earlier post, I have talked about markets not being so efficient in pricing the intrinsic value(true value) of the businesses/ companies, especially from a long term perspective . Value investing is all about taking advantage of these efficency gaps, whenever they present themselves to u [...]
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Warren Buffet once said that he owes his remarkable success to a luck factor as he was born at the right place(USA) at the right time. The stupendous growth of US economy after world war II for the next 60 years was the biggest growth story of 20th century. Warren and lot of other legendary [&hellip [...]
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Value Investing: This is a investment philosophy , conceptualized by Benjamin Graham in 1949 in his book “Intelligent investor” . Benjamin Graham is known as the greatest investment guru of 20th century – mentor to legendary Warren Buffet. Its an investing style which demands [...]
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