Investments & Personal Finance Articles

An investing secret thats hard to follow

Posted by Equitymaster 30 June 2020 6808 Views

'Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful' says Warren Buffett. 'Buy low and sell high' is supposed to be the classic and simple formula for beating the stock market. Well, if it is indeed as easy as it sounds, the intrigu

Support & Resistance Levels - Concepts

Posted by Venkat Rao Marella 20 August 2009 13571 Views

Dear Friends,While surfing this professional site www.caclubindia.com, I can see few files on “Sheet to calculate Support & Resistance Levels of stocks”. The templates the members have shared are good.You'll often hear technical analy

Women's Weekly: SIP's - Made Simple!

Posted by Equitymaster 30 July 2009 8419 Views

Ok, so we’ve been telling you time and again for the past few weeks to save money and invest. Savings are important and investments can provide you with profits in the long term. We have seen that, now let’s get down to business. How shou

Back to basics on street

Posted by CA Lalit Mohan Agarwal 25 July 2009 5642 Views

The Budget day, the sensex tanked 6% and gilt yields rose 30 basis points. The markets seemed to be repelled by P. Mukherjee’s budget. In fact, the budget does a good job of dealing with a Great Recession. That is a substantial achievement, not

8 Year Cycle

Posted by Manish Maheshwari 30 July 2009 16116 Views

8 Year Cycle:By Manish Kumar MaheshwariRemember, every 8 years, market does see a deep cut in valuations. In the previous 8-year cycle top during '1992-93, Sensex lost 56% from 4546 to 1980. In the next cycle top, the cut was almost 58% from 6150 in

Growth still tied to Monsoons?

Posted by Equitymaster 18 July 2009 4545 Views

"Nowadays, poor monsoon has a much lower effect on the economy than, say, what it was 15-20 years ago,…a very bad drought or a very poor agricultural output... would affect the GDP and demand and would have some effect on FMCG take off.

US credit card reform bill

Posted by CA Lalit Mohan Agarwal 20 July 2009 5073 Views

INTERNATIONAL US credit card reform bill US President Barak Obama signed into law sweeping reforms that restrict credit card interest rates and fees, making a victory for Democrats trying to help recession-weary consumers. US President Barak

Summary-Master Circular-Investment in JV/WOS

Posted by Rajeev N L 13 July 2009 13772 Views

Summary of Master Circular on Investments by Residents in JV and WOS abroad SECTION A Objective of Circular:Regulate acquisition and transfer of a foreign security by a person resident in India i.e. investment by Indian entities in overseas ‘j

Women's Weekly: Trading places

Posted by Equitymaster 11 July 2009 5650 Views

In a family, a man usually manages the money and savings, but we ask – why not the woman?A cool wind blowing gently through the palm trees, caressing your hair as you lie on a hammock in the summer sunshine, under the azure sky and watch your g

Few important things for good trading

Posted by Durga Rao 05 July 2009 4540 Views

We were a closed economy till 1990 when we had to face a serious balance of payments crisis and we had to embrace liberalisation. We had a drastic shift in our trade policy in 1990 when P.V.Narasimha Rao was Priminister. We have seen tremendo