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SIMPLE ECONOMICS
High expectation, low satisfaction
Consider this. Recently, an acquaintance was narrating about his trip to a boutique. His son wanted to buy a black suit, which you may think is a fairly easy choice. The boutique, however, had 10 different shades of the colour. Two hours later, ...
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TAX TALK
Preoccupied with self-occupied
I have taken a Loan of Rs 15 lakh from ICICI Home Finance and purchased a house in Hyderabad. In my income-tax returns, I have shown the house property as "Self-Occupied" and claimed the interest of Rs 1,25,000 as a deduction in computing the ...
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AUTO FOCUS
Bajaj Pulsar: Yet another trim
Bajaj has kept the brand's aspirational image alive by constantly upgrading its looks and features, and by adding newer, bigger and more powerful engines to the basic bike.
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A new dawn from the land of rising sun
The Nissan Teana, a luxury sedan, will be launched in India soon. In terms of design, it is a classic Nissan, marrying with elan the gracefulness of European simplicity and the streak of Japanese quirkiness that the company's cars are famous for .
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BOOK VALUE
P&F: Profits and fun
In the world of technical analysis, line chart connects a series of closing prices to display the price history of a share; bar chart shows the trading range — open, high and low — in addition to the closing price; and the candlestick ...
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PORTFOLIO MOVES
Birla India GenNext: A fancy for media
Birla India GenNext is a theme-based fund that seeks to benefit from the country's rising consumption pattern. The fund aims at investing in companies which manufacture products or render services that directly reach the consumer. While the ...
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F & O OUTLOOK
Nifty may resume negative journey
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YOUNG INVESTOR
Make assetworthy allocations
You have just landed your first job fresh out of college. It is an exciting time, full of promise... you have your whole future ahead. But let's face it — setting priorities on a limited income can be frustrating, especially when you do not ...
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Investment Nuggets
Eugene Fama is credited as the chief architect of the Efficient Market Hypothesis. A ground breaking article in the May 1970 issue of the Journal of Finance titled "Efficient Capital Markets: A Review of Theory and Empirical Work" ...
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Commodity equation with equity
The entire commodities complex is now the focus of attention not only of entrepreneurs (producers, consumers) and investors but also of policymakers, including central banks. Investment in commodities exerts a balancing effect on the portfolio as ...
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SMART MESSAGE
Short 'em
`Short' is in — players with big money can now sell stocks they do not own (or `short' them, in stock market parlance). Institutional investors, who were hitherto allowed to sell short only in the derivatives market, would soon be doing ...
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