Investments & Personal Finance Articles

DERIVATIVES -BASICS TYPES AND USES

Posted by jatin 27 September 2007 239861 Views

Roughly about seven years ago NSE , one of the leading stock exchanges in India(other includes BSE) inaugurated the trading in Derivatives .Though there were initial hesitation amongst Indian investors with respect to these supposedly new financial

What's short-selling of shares

Posted by CMA Gul S 21 September 2007 6288 Views

What is short-selling? Short-selling, in the context of the stock market, is the practice where an investor sells shares that he does not own at the time of selling them. He sells them in the hope that the price of those shares will decline, and he w

Testing Balance Sheet Strength

Posted by CA. Mohammed Yusuf 21 September 2007 8801 Views

Testing Balance Sheet Strength For stock investors, the balance sheet is an important consideration for investing in a company's stock because it is a reflection of what the company owns and owes. The strength of a company's balance sheet can be eval

Learning for Earning: Get the secrets of forex training program

Posted by Ravikumar.G 20 September 2007 5633 Views

For a trader, forex is perhaps the best place to start a trading career. And why not? Forex with all its flexibilities has proved to be the largest trading market in the world having an average daily trade of US$ 2 trillion and above. A trader with a

Infrastructure MFs are flavour of the year

Posted by CMA Gul S 13 September 2007 4359 Views

It's not just the infrastructure sector that is witnessing fund inflows from a cross section of investors, including private equity players, for the past year. Schemes floated by mutual funds (MFs) have also piqued investor interest, as a result of w