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Investing in technology stocks

When we buy starbucks coffee we are familiar with the taste,aroma, temperature, state and often fairly why we are spending money. Hence buying a consumer staple company stocks you know what are you investing in....

Online education: Price to book value is low? Should we invest in these stocks

Online education in India is picking up faster than before. This shows interest amongst the population to adapt to new changes primarily to shorten their distance to success. According to ICEF Monitor is a dedicated...

Cisco Systems – Earning analysis

Cisco designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol (“IP”) based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology (“IT”) industry and provide services associated with these products and their use. Cisco also provides...

Risk vs. Return

Investment is all about risk and return, and ironically both are two sides of the same coin. These two building blocks of investment decision making remain elusive to most investors and not surprisingly they have...

Laffans Petrochemicals – Speculative buy

The company once manufactured specialty chemicals especially ethylene dioxide derivatives at its Ankleshwar plant until it sold the facility to Huntsman  Corporation in 2011. Since then the company has been sitting on the piled up...

Indian Paper Industry Overview & Go to Market Strategy

The Indian Paper Industry as a whole is witnessing action on quite few fronts. The Printing and Writing (P&W) Paper Industry (on which this report focuses on) is a segment which is slowly showing a...

Are you ready for second diesel price hike?

Second hike in diesel price within months would be a surprise for an economy fighting with inflation, misaligned goals by unstable Government and falling currency. However the first one was no surprise when you look...

US & China growth intertwined

The Basic In Corporate Finance 101 course every MBA grad would have come across the price yield relationship graph under bond valuation section. As shown below the relationship between bond price and yield is inverseand...

Bushel, Stock and Barrel

Brent spot price which showed signs of cooling off has gained USD 24 from its recent low of USD 88 in six weeks.The crude which scaled to its historical high of USD 144 per barrel...

Sectors: Rotation, risk and return – Part Two

Risk return tradeoff Theory says that expected return should rise as risk rises that is the risk return profile should be upward sloping from left to right but we see realized risk return profile is...

Sectors: Rotation, risk and return – Part One

Nifty is down by 19% as on July 27th, 2012 from its historical high that was registered in November 2010. We have looked indices in two parts, performance since the sub-prime crisis low and November...

VIX auguring pain?

VIX is the most prominent barometer of risk that is available in the market. Many banks tried to bring in their versions of risk barometer with much fanfare but failed to impress the market. VIX...