The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, October 05, 2008

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YOUNG INVESTOR: FAQs on the US turmoil
Why did Lehman, Freddie and Fannie and the other banks get into ...

TAX TALK: TDS woes of a senior citizen
I am a retired professor and a senior citizen. I want to invest Rs 3 lakh out of my retirement benefits in a bank FD offering interest of 10.5 per cent per annum. The annual interest is Rs 32,500. I understand that tax will not ...

SIMPLE ECONOMICS: Why last-minute air travel is costly
My friend is a last-minute traveller. He ends up paying a premium on his air fare compared to those who purchase tickets in advance. He, however, gets a discount when he buys last-minute tickets to his favourite concerts. Quite intrigued, ...

YOUNG INVESTOR: Arbitrage opportunity
Arbitrage is the strategy by which an investor can earn risk-free profits. It is the simultaneous buying and selling of a security to take advantage of the price differential. The price differential helps the investor/trader make profits ...

MICROMOTIVES: Principal-protection notes: Costly for allaying investors’ fears?
Asset prices have crashed globally due to the financial mess on Wall Street. It is in times such as these that asset management firms peddle products that allay investors’ fears and encourage them to regain exposure to the stock ...

YOUNG INVESTOR: Differential voting rights
Nearly seven years after the government permitted the issue of equity shares with differential voting rights, Tata Motors becomes the first Indian company to make a rights issue carrying differential voting rights (DVR), with its offer ...

YOUNG INVESTOR: CDS for dummies
He called them “the financial weapons of mass destruction”. ‘He’ was ‘Warren Buffet’ and ‘them’ was ‘Derivatives’. Boy, the world’s smartest investor could not have been ...

F & O OUTLOOK: Weakening trend in Nifty futures
The sudden and sharp fall on Friday added to the already weakening trend in Nifty futures, which ended the week 3851 points against its previous week’s close of 3998. But what’s worth noting is that the Friday fall came with a ...

BOOK VALUE: Ten tactical principles for investors
Realism is the first of 10 tactical principles that David M. Darst lists in The Art of Asset Allocation, second edition ( www.tatamcgrawhill.com). Be realistic enough ...

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