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SIMPLE ECONOMICS
Banking on trust
The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize was recently awarded to Professor Muhammad Yunus, the founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. He pioneered micro-credit lending to the poor without any collateral. His business ...
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TAX TALK
Travel first-class A/C for exemption
I plan to travel from Chennai to Ahmedabad by train and from Ahmedabad to Palitana and back to Ahmedabad by car. I will be returning from Ahmedabad by train. Can I claim the exemption in respect of LTA on the expenditure incurred for travel ...
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FUND WATCH
Update
Franklin Templeton Investments announced a tax-free dividend of Rs 6 per unit in its fund Franklin India Prima Plus. The record date for the same is November 15. Prudential ICICI AMC has launched Prudential ICICI Equity and ...
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AUTO FOCUS
CBZ X-Treme — in the classic Hero Honda mould
All Hero Honda hallmarks — engine refinement, slick-shifting smooth gearbox, top-of-the-class vibration isolation, low engine noise and quality components — have all been carried forward in the CBZ X-Treme. With enhanced visual appeal and aggressive pricing, can the bike give the competition a run for its money?
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BOOK VALUE
Markets as frictionless and non-linear systems
Information such as stock prices can be a consumable that can be `exploited for profit.'
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PORTFOLIO MOVES
Biral Midcap: Cement, pharma pruned
Mid-cap stocks that were trounced during the May meltdown took a breather after they came up with positive numbers in the September quarter. Here is a look at Birla Midcap — a fund with a mid-cap orientation — and how it churned its ...
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F & O OUTLOOK
Positive outlook on Nifty futures
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THE BIG DEAL
Renault-M&M tie-up: Win-win for both
French automobile major Renault's plans for the Indian market are the `better-late-than-never' kind. After all, its domestic rival Peugeot was the first to land on Indian shores during the early years of the auto industry's liberalisation. But, ...
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YOUNG INVESTOR
Yuppies on a shopping spree
Young urban professionals are driven by aspiration and disposable income
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To invest, first catch a good broker
Finding a broker can be one of the easiest things on earth, but finding a good one can be difficult. A good broker is one who will understand your investment goals and help you achieve it. But to ensure success in this process, you need to ...
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Investment Nuggets
You could call Philip Fisher as the stock market's first `tech investor'. His seminal contribution to the field of growth investing is his book Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, originally published in 1958, which broke new ground ...
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Ask not how the market is doing
"How's the market doing" or "what's happening in the market"! People ask these questions all the time, and expect short answers. The problem is whatever the answer, it usually leads to faulty understanding and wrong conclusions. Let's take all ...
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Money-Talk
Dr Ganesh Natarajan, Deputy Chairman and Managing Director, Zensar Technologies, is a highly successful IT professional, who has carried his wide-ranging knowledge and experience from his earlier ten-year stint as CEO of Aptech ...
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CALL-CENTRE
A vital balancing act
Sometimes, it pays to keep life simple. Just as much as disciplined spending does. Most of us enjoy several facilities, which the maharajas of yesteryear would have yearned for. We can aspire for all the latest facilities or gizmos, though ...
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