Muses of Murari

It looks like the flavor of the season is to accept & agree on a single idea – ‘Indian economy slowdown’. Recession in Indian lexicon is totally no-no. So says the elite economists. May be true. Prices are high. Inflation is high. Real Estate companies like DLF are selling lands to throw meatballs to investors [...]

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SKS announced Q4 and FY 11 results The Company has posted a loss after tax of Rs (697.685) million for the quarter ended March 31, 2011 as compared to profit after tax of Rs 628.930 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2010. Total Income has decreased from Rs 3044.938 million for the quarter ended [...]

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This wonderful investment book authored by Peter Lynch, a former fund manager of Fidelity Magellan fund. The author explains how simple observation backed up with data can help a common person with no or little financial knowledge to gain immensely in the stock market. He quotes number of scrips and its performance on market, while [...]

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Micro-finance to poor – a wonderful solution to help poor to emancipate themselves from poverty & backwardness, conceptualized by Muhammad Yunus of Grameen Bank. [Read few thoughts on his book about his Grameen journey] Many know after its success in Bangladesh. The model is replicated in many countries including in India. Banks in India tried [...]

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When I read the news that LIC Housing finance & few PSU banks involved in a housing scam, I was bit shocked. There was no clarity in the media till this evening, when CBI announced the actual details. The stock market had tanked a lot. It had a free fall yesterday on Korea attacks. Now, [...]

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SKS scrip fell from all time high of 1490 last September to 640 today. That’s huge sell off amid all bad PR & negative developments – AP govt policy changes, alleged farmer suicides, CEO firing, promoter’s divorce and looming political intervention. Can we take a contrarian position? Hope one can after further deeper cut. I [...]

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The most popular IPO in recent times had a fantastic listing yesterday. 40 % gain on the first day. There are hundreds of articles about this company, its IPO and market comments swirling around on internet. Let me not burden you with one more! Anyone tracking the market or listening to the market news, knows [...]

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A listed company called Navin Fluorine is involved in chemical & refrigerant manufacturing business. More than its operational activities, people including me, got interested in its carbon credits story. The carbon credits are earned by the company from UNFCCC. And in turn it sells them in carbon market for huge premium. The company earns credits [...]

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In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned : In our country, only 1.5% of total population has demat accounts and far less than that figure are active. We have been told that our country men are one of the highest savers of money in the world. If so few demat accounts (few investments) and [...]

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Well, for those tracking stock market closely, this post might be ‘duh duh’. I like try my amateur hand on this. Comments welcome. It’s so true. Well, I am not talking about “buy on rumors and sell on news” stuff. It’s about how the stock price moves and people make opinions for the price moves. [...]

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