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COLUMNS YOUNG INVESTOR: Be ‘penny wise, pound wiser’ Mr Sharma, a gadget freak all his life, has decided to put off the purchase of Sony Vaio’s latest pocket size notebook. Mrs Kumar now encourages her family to eat at home more often, even on days when they have guests for ... TAX TALK: Get HRA rebate till you move into own house I purchased a flat in December 2007 and started paying the pre-EMI from February 2008 on the housing loan. I was paying the pre-EMI until September 2008 and started paying the EMI from October ... SIMPLE ECONOMICS: Do you self-handicap? The CFA Level-I exam results were announced recently. A person whom I know claimed that she would have easily passed the exam but for lack of time! And before you scoff at the excuse, remember that all of us manufacture some defence after ... BOOK VALUE: Earnings game The big bath, creative acquisition accounting, miscellaneous ‘cookie jar reserves’, abuse of materiality, and manipulating revenue recognition. These were ‘the five different accounting practices for manipulating the results ... MICROMOTIVES: Bank deposits: Optimal choice for short-term exposure? Most investors want to increase their exposure to fixed-income securities, given the high downside risk in stocks. Several posed us this question: Are bond funds good investments now, even if interest rates increase after a year? Or are ... YOUNG INVESTOR: Tax investments and risk Do you rush to make your tax saving investments at the fag end of the year, and end up making ... F & O OUTLOOK: Nifty future at critical stage After weeks of being in the losing streak, the Nifty future managed an impressive turnaround, putting in a neat 3.75 gains on the table. While a bulk of the upsurge may have been helped by the squaring-off of short positions; that the week ... Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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