What to do in such turbulent times?

The stock market is a see-saw these days. Plummeting 900 points on one day and growing 700+ points on the next. What does this imply? Simply- Nothing can be guaranteed and anything can happen. That’s easy to say but hard to accept when you have your life’s savings at stake and when your stocks are [...]

Warren Buffet to invest $5 billion in Goldman Sachs

Warrent Buffet is going to invest about $5 billlion in Goldman Sachs which turns out to be about 9% of the total stake. Buffet said “I don’t try and time things, but I do try and price things. I have got a formula, bet on brains, and bet on them when it is the [...]

What is a franchise business?

      You may be having an impression that to own a business you must start it. Well, not exactly, you can even buy an already built business isn’t it? Yes you can and that’s where we have an option called franchise business. A franchise business can be explained from two perspectives, one from the franchiser [...]

HDFC Bank - still a good buy…

HDFC Bank has seen a great dip in recent week and is trading close to 1140 down about 200 rupees that is 15% in last 10 days or so. This is nice time to buy it. While many think that it will be foolish to buy as the stock is falling continously from past 3 weeks, well, we need to realise the potential of the stock to [...]

HDFCBank - A good buy now…

HDFCBank is one of the widely spread banks with second largest market capitalization in India, followed by ICICI Bank. I am tracking the stock from the past 3 months and observing closely frompast 2 weeks. Right now, in the past 3 days it has fallen about 8% which is seeking the bottom if you look the [...]

Raymond and SBI in problem

        Raymond is currently trading at the market price of Rs:259/- and the fair valuations are around Rs: 200/- says Merrill Lynch. The poor earnings visibility, especially in the denim business is mainly said to be the reason behind the lowering the rating of Raymond, which was looking strong in Jan and Feb, but now [...]

Real Estate Market - what’s going on…?

The magic of wealth creation by real estate assets was mindblowing in last couple of years. But now, things are changing. Buyers are not as enthusiastics as they were. There are many different views on this, lets see.
The loan institutions say that [...]

Rupee Vs. Dollar..things are changing now!

     You have heard everywhere US Dollar is depreciating and Indian Rupee is appreciating. Well this was true till now (i.e. March 2008). Things may get exactly opposite from now. You have seen rupee getting stronger and stronger from 45 to 43 and now to the levels of 40! But after this rupee is seen [...]

What is “inflation”?

            We hear many times that inflation to grow above 8% the next fiscal year, this year inflation rose than the last one and other such things very often. Now lets understand what they really mean. Inflation in simply terms is the rise in the price of goods and services ( and any thing which can be [...]